Office: Cowell Annex 105 Mailing Address: Dr. Rajesh Sampath Cowell Academic Services University of California Santa Cruz, CA 95064 Phone: Office: (831) 459-5045 messages: (831) 459-2609 Email: rsampath@ucsc.edu

 

Areas of Interest

• 19th and 20th century continental philosophy, particularly Hegel, Heidegger, Derrida and the philosophy of religion

Education:

• Ph.D., Philosophy of History/Critical Theory, University of California, Irvine
• B.A., University of California, Berkeley

Biography

Rajesh Sampath did his BA at the University of California, Berkeley and doctorate at the University of California, Irvine. He studied modern European philosophy, particularly phenomenology and existentialism. During his doctoral career, he was a student of the late Jacques Derrida. He then completed a two year ChancellorÕs Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley where he conducted research on the impact of HegelÕs Phenomenology of Spirit and HeideggerÕs Being and Time on twentieth century continental European philosophies of history, particularly in France and Germany. He is the author of Four-Dimensional Time: Twentieth Century Philosophies of History in Europe, Lanham: University Press of America, 1999. He was a D.A.A.D. research fellow at Bremen Universitaet in Germany. His work shifted to Hegel, Heidegger and the philosophy of religion. Current research is on Heidegger, Hegel and Derrida and their impact on the philosophy of religion, modern European systematic theology (Protestant, Catholic and Orthodox) and biblical studies.

Forthcoming Publications:

“In the Revelatory Light of the Chiasmic Entwining: The Being of Time and the Time of Being, or the onto-theological constitution of the 1920-21 lectures on the Phenomenology of the Religious Life as a precursor to fundamental ontology in Being and Time.”  Arhe V: Heidegger’s Philosophy Today.  09/2008. Faculty of Philosophy, University of Novi Sad Spring 2008 (April/May).

 Recent Invited Conference Presentations and Lectures:

“The Indestructibility of Catholic Philosophical Theology: Heidegger's Concealed Relationship with Saint Thomas Aquinas as the Paradoxical Condition of his Ontological Critique of Christianity by way of Twentieth Century Protestant New Testament Theology,” Thomistic International Congress, Faculty of Theology, Cluj, Romania, April 2008

“Experiencing the Transformation of the Divine in Heidegger’s 1942/43 ‘Hegel’s Concept of Experience’” 2008 North American Heidegger Conference, Northern Illinois University, Illinois, May 2008

“God’s Super-Temporalization in Hans Urs von Balthasar’s Theo-Drama and Ecstatic Temporalization in Heidegger’s Being and Time,” Heidegger and Religion, Heidegger Forschungsgruppe, Messkirch, Germany, June 2008

 “Ecstatic Historical Time and the Eclipse of Christianity in Heidegger’s 1958 ‘Hegel and the Greeks,’” XXII World Congress of Philosophy, Seoul National University, Korea, June 2008

“Judaic Onto-Theology in the Thought of Derrida,”  Theology and Religious Reflection Section, American Academy of Religion International Meeting and International Meeting of Society of Biblical Literature, Auckland, New Zealand, July 2008

“God as ‘the Gods’ of/as the Pluralistic Origin: An Onto-Theological Reading of Derrida’s Of Grammatology in Light of the Temporal Dynamics of Exodus 3:14,” Derrida Today, Macquerie University, Sydney, Australia, July 2008

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