BIOBIBLIOGRAPHY ........................... New Orleans/ *UK 1967 Photographer and philosopher Layton School of Art, professional photography, 1961 Marquette University, majors in philosophy and psychology, A.B. 1966 University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, M.A. in philosophy, 1969 Southern Illinois University, Ph.D. in philosophy, 1973 James R. Watson is professor of philosophy at Loyola University, New Orleans and President of the "Society for the Philosophic Study of Genocide and the Holocaust" - www.loyno.edu/~spsgh. His recent books are: Between Auschwitz and Tradition: The Postmodern Task of Thinking; Portraits of American Continental Philosophers; and Contemporary Portrayals of Auschwitz: Philosophical Challenges. He has published extensively on, among others, Heidegger and Nietzsche; and on modern "ism's" as marxism, existentialism, postmodernism and feminism. The photographic works are in many private collections in the United States, Germany and Italy. [email protected] BOOKS ........................... 2000 "Contemporary Portrayals of Auschwitz and Genocide", eds. James R. Watson, Alan Rosenberg, and Detlef Linke, New York: Humanity Books 1999 "Continental Philosophers in America", ed. with photographs by James R. Watson, Bloomington: Indiana University Press "Amerikanische PhilosophInnen in Selbstdarstellungen", trans. Erik M. Vogt, vol. 3 of "Neue Amerikanische Philosophie" series, Vienna/A: Turia+Kant 1997 "Die Auschwitz Galaxy", German translation of "Between Auschwitz and Tradition" by Erik M. Vogt, vol. 2 of "Neue Amerikanische Philosophie" series, Vienna/A: Turia+Kant VIDEOTAPES ........................... "The Many Nietzsches", March 24, 1995, public lecture filmed by the University of Winnipeg/CA "Philosophy After Auschwitz?" March 24, 1995, public lecture filmed by the University of Winnipeg/CA "The Poor and the Criminal Justice System", April 1977, Hope House Inc., New Orleans/La. "Labor and the Humanities", March 8, 1977, Panarama Productions, Baton Rouge/La. "Work in the South", May 29, 1976, Panarama Productions, Baton Rouge/La. "Philosophical Implications of Work Incentive Legislation", July 23, 1976, Panarama Productions, Baton Rouge/La. PHOTOGRAPHY ........................... "Over 300 of my photographs have been published in scholarly books. The integration of photographic image and theoretical texts has been one of my special philosophical projects for the last twenty years". J. R. W. 2000 "Images / Texts ... Imaging", listed as a Special Event for the IAPL 2000 conference, May 9-13, 2000 at State University of New York at Stony Brook. Exhibition of fifty 16" x 20" photographs with accompanying texts authored-composed by James R. Watson. This exhibition will become part of SUNY at Stony Brook's permanent photographic collection. 1999 Forbes and Associates, McKinleyview/Ca., Febr. 22, 1999 to March 19, 1999, exhibition of a series of ten 16" x 20" black and white photographs 1993 Forty photographs used as stage projections for the performance of "Razzle Dazzle and Other Jazz". Director Francine Tuft Peterson, Loyola University, Jan. 29-30, 1993 1989 Nine photographic transparencies used for the set projections of "The Crucible". Director: Francine Tuft Peterson, Loyola University, March 2-4, 1989 Twenty photographs used for the staging of "La Voix Humaine". Director: Francine Tuft Peterson, Loyola University, May 11-13, 1989 |
