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 (2012âÂÂ2015). Risser is known for his works on Heideggerian philosophy and hermeneutics.
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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