Wartenberg, Thomas E. 1949-

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Wartenberg, Thomas E. 1949-

PERSONAL:

Born November 20, 1949, in Newark, NJ; son of Rolf and Hannah Wartenberg; married Wendy Berg (a lawyer), July 5, 1986; children: Jacob Benjamin. Education: Amherst College, B.A., 1971; Stanford University, M.A., 1973; University of Pittsburgh, Ph.D., 1977. Politics: "Progressive."

ADDRESSES:

Home—Northampton, MA. Office—Department of Philosophy, Mount Holyoke College, 50 College St., South Hadley, MA 01075; fax: 413-538-2579. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER:

Duke University, Durham, NC, assistant professor of philosophy, 1977-83; Hampshire College, Amherst, MA, visiting associate professor of philosophy, 1983-84; Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA, professor of philosophy and film studies, 1985—.

WRITINGS:

The Forms of Power: From Domination to Transformation, Temple University Press (Philadelphia, PA), 1990.

(Editor) Rethinking Power, State University of New York Press (Albany, NY), 1992.

(Editor, with Cynthia A. Freeland, and coauthor of introduction) Philosophy and Film, Routledge (Hew York, NY), 1995.

Unlikely Couples: Movie Romance as Social Criticism, Westview Press (Boulder, CO), 1999.

(Editor) The Nature of Art: An Anthology, Harcourt (New York, NY), 2002, 2nd edition, Thomson Wadsworth (Belmont, CA), 2007.

(Editor, with Angela Curran, and contributor) The Philosophy of Film: Introductory Text and Readings, Blackwell (Malden, MA), 2005.

(Editor, with Murray Smith, and contributor) Thinking through Cinema: Films as Philosophy, Blackwell (Malden, MA), 2006.

Thinking on Screen: Film as Philosophy, Routledge (New York, NY), 2008.

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