Jeffrey Bloechl
philosophy department
Associate Professor
Ph.D. and M.Phil., Catholic University of Louvain
M.A. and B.A., Catholic University of America
Stokes N227
Boston College
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Phone: 617-552-4023
Fax: 617-552-3874
Email: bloechl@bc.edu
Professional Career
Professor Bloechl joined the faculty as associate professor in 2007-08, after teaching as assistant and associate professor at the College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA.
Fields of Interest
- Phenomenology and psychoanalysis
- Philosophy of religion
- Metaphilosophy
Current Teaching
- The Philosophy of Levinas
- Heidegger and Marcel on the Sacred
- Phenomenology and Theology (2008-2009)
- Philosophy and Tragedy (2008-2009)
- Perspectives on Western Civilization (core)
Other Professional Activities
- Series Editor, "Levinas Studies. An Annual Review" (annual volumes, 2006-...)
- President, Philosophers in Jesuit Education
- Editorial Board, "Continental Philosophy Review," Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Northwestern University Press
- External reviewer of manuscripts, Fordham University Press, Northwestern University Press, University of Notre Dame Press
Some Recent Publications
- "Bread and Spirit. On Heidegger's Die Armut (1945)," forthcoming in Mélanges offerts à Emilio Brito (Leuven: BETL, 2008)
- "Obscure Habit. Preambles to a Phenomenology of Christian Existence," to appear in volume on Phenomenology and Transcendence, edited by C. Cunningham (London: Routledge, 2007)
- "Egoity without Ego," in A. Ferrarin (ed.), Passive Synthesis and Life-World/Sintesi passiva e mondo della vita (Pisa: Edizioni ETS, 2006)