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Assistant Professor of Religion and Philosophy Lebanon Valley College Annville, PA 17003 Office: Humanities 307A Phone: (717) 867-6134 Email: vahanian@lvc.edu

Interests: Philosophical Theology, Continental Philosophy of Religion, and Political Theory

Education:
Ph.D. (1999), Department of Religion, Syracuse University
M.Phil (1996), M.A. (1994), Department of Religion, Syracuse University
B.A. (1992), Sociology, cum laude, Syracuse University

Courses Taught at LVC:
PHL 110: Introduction to Philosophy
PHL 160: Ethics
REL 140: Encountering World Religions

PHL 230: Philosophy of Religion

PHL 290: Philosophy and Literature
PHL 300: History of Philosophy

Previous Courses Taught:
19th Century European Philosophy
Philosophical Foundations of Western Thought
Philosophical Perspectives on the Human Situation
Issues in Ethics
Imagining Religion
Issues and Themes in the Study of Religion

Books:

• Language, Desire, Theology: A Genealogy of the Will to Speak.  Routledge Press, 2003.
• Anonymous God: An Essay on Not Dreading Words.  A translation of Gabriel Vahanian, Dieu anonyme ou le peur des mots.  Davies Group, 2001.

 

Articles, Chapters, and Reviews:

• A review of Max Cacopardo (director), Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone deBeauvoir (FirstRun/Icarus Films, 1967). In Bridges: an Interdisciplinary Journal of Theology, Philosophy, History and Science, forthcoming.
  
• "Great Explanations."  In Religion in a Secular World: Violence, Politics, Terror, ed. Clayton Crockett.  Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, forthcoming, 2006.
• "Bernard Lonergan," "Freud and Freudianism," "Friedrich Gogarten," "Alfred North Whitehead," "Process Philosophy and Theology."  In The New Westminster Dictionary of Church History.  Westminster/John Knox Press, forthcoming.
• A review of Richard Rubenstein, Aristotles Children: How Christians, Muslims, and Jews Rediscovered Ancient Wisdom and Illuminated the Dark Ages (Harcourt, 2003).  In The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory, vol. 5, no. 3:  http://www.jcrt.org/archives/05.3/index.html
• "Misplaced Conreteness and Abstract Essence."  In Secular Theology: American Radical Theological Thought, ed. Clayton Crockett.  Routledge Press, 2000.
• "Desire", "Desiring Machine", "Chora", "Transcendental Negativity", "Quasi-Transcendental", and "Charles Winquist."  In the Routledge Encyclopedia of Postmodernism, Routledge Press, 2000.
• "Pour une theologie juive du christianisme."  Translation of Michael S. Kogan, "Toward a Jewish Theology of Christianity."  In Foi et Vie, vol LCVII, no. 1 (JAN 1998).
• "To Wit, Noesis."  In Explorations: Journal for Adventurous Thought, vol. 14.

 

Conference Presentations:

• “The Theological Turn.”  Questioning God: The British Society for Phenomenology Summer Conference. University of Greenwich, London, U.K. Summer 2003.
• “Thoughtfulness or Indifference.”  Continental Philosophy of Religion Conference. St. Martin's College, Lancaster, U.K. Sponsored by the British Academy (Summer 2000).
• “Thoughtfulness:  An Interpretation of Hannah Arendt’s Thought.”  Midwest Regional Meeting of the Society of Christian Philosophers, Waco, March 2000.
• “Speech on Theology for Scholars of Religion.”  AAR/SBL Eastern International Meeting, Toronto, April 1998.
• “The Question for Theology.”  AAR/SBL Eastern International Meeting, Buffalo, April 1997.
• “To Wit, Noesis.”  AAR/SBL Triregional International Meeting, Boston, March 1995.
• “The Practical Desire To No End.”  AAR/SBL Eastern International Meeting, Montréal, April 1994.
• “The Imp of the Perverse.”  AAR/SBL Eastern International Meeting, Rochester, April 1992.
• “Reflections on the Study of Sociology.”  SPA, Providence, June 1990.

 

                  

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