GEORGE KOVACS
(Ph.D., UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN)

Professor of Philosophy
Department of Philosophy
Florida International University
Miami, FL 33199
Office: DM 345A

phone: (305) 348-3349
fax: (305) 348-1799
email: kovacsg@fiu.edu

Areas of Interest: Phenomenology and Hermeneutics (Heidegger), Metaphysics, Philosophical Anthropology, Existential Psychology, Philosophy of Death

Selected Publications:

• The Question of God in Heidegger's Phenomenology. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1990
• "Heidegger's Directives in Mindfulness for Understanding the Be-ing-historical Relationship of Machination and Art," Heidegger Studies, 24, 39-59. 2008
• "The Unthought at the Limit of Heidegger's Thought," Existentia, 17, 337-355. 2007
• "Heidegger's Contributions to Philosophy and the Failure of 'A Grassroots Archival Perspective,'" Studia Phaenomenologica, 6, 319-345. 2006
• "The Way to Ultimate Meaning in Edith Stein's Phenomenology," Ultimate Reality and Meaning, 26 no. 4, 263-282. 2003
• "Heidegger in Dialogue with Herder: Crossing the Language of Metaphysics toward Be-ing-historical Language," Heidegger Studies, 17, 45-63. 2001
• "The Leap (Der Sprung) in Heidegger's Beiträge zur Philosophie (Vom Ereignis)," Man and World, 25, 39-59. 1992
• "Phenomenology of Work and Self-Transcendence," The Journal of Value Inquiry, 20, 195-207. 1986
• "The Personalistic Understanding of the Body and Sexuality in Merleau-Ponty," Review of Existential Psychology and Psychiatry, 18, 207-217. 1982-1983