James C. Risser

James C. Risser
James C. Risser
Born	1946 (age 79–80)
Education
Education	Duquesne University (PhD)
Thesis	Truth and Aesthetic Experience in Kant's Critique of Judgement (1978)
Doctoral advisor	John Sallis
Philosophical work
Era	Contemporary philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Continental philosophy
Institutions	Seattle University
Main interests	Hermeneutics

James Conrad Risser (born 1946) is an American philosopher and Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Seattle University where he was Pigott-McCone Endowed Chair of Humanities between 1991 and 1994. He is a former president of the North American Society of Philosophical Hermeneutics (2012–2015). Risser is known for his works on Heideggerian philosophy and hermeneutics.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Books

(Edited) Philosophy, Art and the Imagination: Essays on the Work of John Sallis. (Leiden: Koninklijke Brill NV, 2022).
The Life of Understanding: A Contemporary Hermeneutics. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2012)
(Edited) American Continental Philosophy. Edited by Walter Brogan and James Risser. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000)
(Edited) Heidegger Toward the Turn: The Work of the 1930s. (Albany: SUNY Press, 1999)
Hermeneutics and the Voice of the Other: Re-reading Hans-Georg Gadamer's Philosophical Hermeneutics (Albany: SUNY Press, 1997)

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