Jerold J . Abrams, PhD

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Jerold J . Abrams, PhD

Professor

Academic Appointments

  • Department: Philosophy
  • Position: Professor

Articles

  • “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.” In 101 Sci-Fi Movies You Must See Before You Die. Ed. Steven Schneider. New York: Penguin,, Quintessence, 2009
  • “Aesthetics and Ethics: Santayana, Nietzsche, and Shusterman.”, The Modern Schoolman: A Quarterly Journal of Philosophy, 233-266, 2004
  • “Philosophy After the Mirror of Nature: Rorty, Dewey, and Peirce on Pragmatism and Metaphor.”, Metaphor and Symbol, 17:3, 227-42, 2002

Awards and Honors

  • Teacher of the Week, Delta Zeta, 2008
  • Teacher of the Month, Pi Kappa Alpha, 2005
  • The 2004 Annual Order of Omega Teaching Award, The Greek Community of Creighton University, 2004

 

Department

Philosophy

Position

Professor

Books

  • Abrams Jerold J, 2001 as Philosophy: A Technological Odyssey - 33 [Book Chapter] 2024
  • Contemporary Cowboys
    Collins Caroline, etal The Philosophy of Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian [Book Chapter] 2023
  • Abrams Jerold J, etal Contemporary Cowboys 2023
  • Shusterman's Somaesthetics
    J. Abrams Jerold, Abbreviated Bibliography and Filmography of Richard Shusterman [Book Chapter] 2022
  • Shusterman's Somaesthetics
    J. Abrams Jerold, Part 1 Pragmatism and Somaesthetics [Book Chapter] 2022
  • Shusterman's Somaesthetics
    J. Abrams Jerold, Notes on Contributors [Book Chapter] 2022
  • Shusterman's Somaesthetics
    J. Abrams Jerold, Series Information [Book Chapter] 2022
  • , Shusterman's somaesthetics 2022
  • Shusterman's Somaesthetics
    J. Abrams Jerold, Name Index [Book Chapter] 2022
  • Shusterman's Somaesthetics
    J. Abrams Jerold, Part 3 Shusterman in His Own Words [Book Chapter] 2022
  • Shusterman's Somaesthetics
    J. Abrams Jerold, Part 2 Performative Philosophy and the Man in Gold [Book Chapter] 2022
  • The Bloomsbury Companion to Stanley Kubrick
    Abrams Jerold, Kubrick and Philosophy [Book Chapter] 2021
  • The Supervillain Reader
    Abrams Jerold J., Shakespeare's Supervillain: Coriolanus [Book Chapter] 2020
  • The Ultimate Star Trek and Philosophy
    Abrams Jerold J, Aristotle and James T. Kirk: The Problem of Greatness [Book Chapter] 2016
  • Abrams J, etal The J. Abrams book 2016
  • Decker Kevin S, etal Theœ ultimate Star Trek and philosophy 2016
  • The Philosophy of TV Noir
    Abrams Jerold J., etal Detection and the Logic of Abduction in The X-Files [Book Chapter] 2015
  • Małecki Wojciech, etal Practicing pragmatist aesthetics 2014
  • Central European Value Studies
    Abrams Jerold J., Pragmatist Aesthetics and Cinematic Experience: Emerson, Dewey, and Shusterman [Book Chapter] 2014
  • Koczanowicz Dorota, etal Shusternam's pragmatism 2012
  • The Philosophy of Spike Lee
    Abrams Jerold J., Transcendence and Sublimity in Spike Lee's Signature Shot [Book Chapter] 2011
  • The Philosophy of the Coen Brothers
    Abrams Jerold J., 'A HOMESPUN MURDER STORY' Film Noir and the Problem of Modernity in Fargo [Book Chapter] 2009
  • The Philosophy of Science Fiction Film
    Abrams Jerold J., THE DIALECTIC OF ENLIGHTENMENT IN METROPOLIS [Book Chapter] 2008
  • Sanders Steven, etal The philosophy of TV noir 2008
  • Battlestar Galactica and Philosophy
    Abrams Jerold J, Embracing the “Children of Humanity”: How to Prevent the Next Cylon War [Book Chapter] 2007
  • , Filosofía de Stanley Kubrick 2007
  • The Philosophy of Neo-Noir
    Abrams Jerold J., Space, Time, and Subjectivity in Neo-Noir Cinema [Book Chapter] 2007
  • Abrams Jerold J., The philosophy of Stanley Kubrick 2007
  • The Philosophy of Stanley Kubrick
    Abrams Jerold J., THE LOGIC OF LOLITA Kubrick, Nabokov, and Poe [Book Chapter] 2007
  • The Philosophy of Martin Scorsese
    Abrams Jerold J., The Cinema of Madness Friedrich Nietzsche and the Films of Martin Scorsese [Book Chapter] 2007
  • Abrams J, History of European drama and theatre 2006
  • Full: In (pp. 69-88) Conard
    Abrams Jerold J., From Sherlock Holmes to the Hard-Boiled Detective in Film Noir [Book Chapter] 2006
  • Full: In (pp. 157-71) Held
    Abrams Jerold J, The epistemology of James Bond: the logic of abduction [Book Chapter] 2006
  • Full: In (pp. 107-19) Decker
    Abrams Jerold J, A technological galaxy: Heidegger and the philosophy of technology in Star Wars [Book Chapter] 2005
  • Woody Allen and Philosophy: You Mean My Whole Fallacy Is Wrong?
    Abrams Jerold, Art and Voyeurism in the Films of Woody Allen [Book Chapter] 2004
  • Abrams J, Samuel Beckett's theatre: Life journeys 2001
  • , William Irwin (editor). Seinfeld and Philosophy: A Book about Everything and Nothing 2001
  • Abrams J, AN AMERICAN JEWISH-COMMUNITY, 50 YEARS, 1889-1939 - THE SOCIOLOGY OF THE JEWISH-COMMUNITY IN STAMFORD, CONNECTICUT - KOENIG,S 1993
  • Abrams J, LEST WE FORGET - REMEMBRANCES OF CHEYENNE JEWS - ELLIOT,M, STILL,M 1993
  • Abrams J, FUTURE TENSE - A NEW ART FOR THE NINETIES - HEWISON,R 1990
  • Abrams J, LISTEN WHILE I TELL YOU, A STORY OF THE JEWS OF ST-JOHNS, NEWFOUNDLAND - KAHN,A 1988
  • Abrams J, THE JEWS OF OREGON, 1850-1950 - LOWENSTEIN,S 1988

Publications

  • Europski glasnik
    Abrams Jerold J, Dijalektika prosvjetiteljstva u Metropolisu, p. 619 - 636 2023
  • International communication of Chinese culture
    Abrams Jerold J., Ancient Chinese cave paintings as cinema: the volcanos and dragons of Mogao Cave 249
    8:2, p. 289 - 316 2021
  • Journal of comparative literature & aesthetics
    Abrams Jerold, Philosophy of Prehistoric Painting and Cinema: Werner Herzog's Cave of Forgotten Dreams
    42:1, p. 44 - 48 2019
  • FILOSOFSKII ZHURNAL
    , EMERSON AND THE RECONSTRUCTION OF PRAGMATISM
    12:2, p. 34 - 47 2019
  • Journal of Science Fiction and Philosophy
    Abrams Jerold J., Aesthetics in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
    1, p. 1 - 19 2018
  • Transactions of the Charles S Peirce Society
    Abrams Jerold J., Richard Rorty, Liberalism and Cosmopolitanism
    52:1, p. 118 - 122 2016
  • PAJ (Baltimore, Md.)
    Abrams J, etal London calling, p. 38 - 44 2005
  • The Modern schoolman
    , Aesthetics and Ethics: Santayana, Nietzsche, and Shusterman
    81:4, p. 233 - 266 2004
  • Human Studies
    Abrams Jerold J., Pragmatism, artificial intelligence, and posthuman bioethics: Shusterman, Rorty, Foucault
    27:3, p. 241 - 258 2004
  • Transactions of the Charles S.Peirce Society
    Abrams Jerold J., Peirce, Kant, and Apel on Transcendental Semiotics: The Unity of Apperception and the Deduction of the Categories of Signs
    40:4, p. 627 - 677 2004
  • Abrams J, Performing processes: Creating live performance 2003
  • Film and philosophy
    , Cinema and the aesthetics of the dynamical sublime: Kant, Deleuze, Heidegger and the architecture of film
    7:7, p. 60 - 76 2003
  • Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society
    Abrams Jerold J, Solution to the problem of induction: Peirce, Apel, and Goodman on the Grue Paradox
    38:4, p. 543 - 558 2002
  • Metaphor and Symbol
    Abrams Jerold J., Philosophy after the mirror of nature: Rorty, Dewey, and Peirce on Pragmatism and metaphor
    17:3, p. 227 - 242 2002
  • Philosophy today (Celina)
    , Aesthetics of self-fashioning and cosmopolitanism: Foucault and rorty on the art of living
    46:2, p. 185 - 192 2002
  • Abrams J, No-thing is left to tell: Zen/chaos theory in the dramatic art of Samuel Beckett 2001
  • Theatre journal (Washington, D.C.)
    Abrams J, Werfel The 'Eternel Road'
    53:1, p. 148 - 151 2001
  • Theatre journal (Washington, D.C.)
    Abrams J, Poulton 'York Millennium Mystery Plays'
    53:1, p. 148 - 151 2001
  • Abrams J, A CENTURY AND A QUARTER OF SPIRITUAL LEADERSHIP - THE STORY OF THE CONGREGATION-OF-THE-SONS-OF-ISRAEL-AND-DAVID (TEMPLE-BETH-EL) - PROVIDENCE, RHODE-ISLAND - GOLDOWSKY,SJ 1993
  • Abrams J, DISNEY ART OF ANIMATION - FROM MICKEY-MOUSE TO 'BEAUTY AND THE BEAST' - THOMAS,B 1992
  • Abrams J, THE ART OF MICKEY-MOUSE - YOE,C, MORRAYOE,J 1992
  • New statesman & society
    Abrams J, SOUR-GRAPES
    4:144, p. 22 - 22 1991
  • New statesman & society
    Abrams J, ARCHITECTS IN THE NURSERY
    3:91, p. 42 - 43 1990
  • New statesman & society
    Abrams J, HULKS ON PARADE
    2:81, p. 34 - 36 1989
  • American Jewish history
    Abrams J, REMEMBERING THE MAINE, THE JEWISH ATTITUDE TOWARD THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR AS REFLECTED IN THE AMERICAN-ISRAELITE
    76:4, p. 439 - 455 1987

Awards

  • The 2004 Annual Order of Omega Teaching Award
    The Greek Community of Creighton University