Frederick M . Dolan

When I joined Berkeley's Department of Rhetoric in 1988, it was something of an intellectual wildlife preserve that sheltered scholars in many fields including literature, film, history of ideas, law, politics, and sociology as well as philosophy. Thanks partly to that I’ve worked in a variety of areas over the years, including political and moral philosophy, philosophy of art, philosophy of mind, hermeneutics, and American politics and culture. I’m a strong believer in liberal education and the study of the great books of the Western canon, which includes, of course, critics of the tradition such as Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Arendt.