Richard J . White, PhD

Professor

Professor

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Contact

rwhite@creighton.edu
College of Arts and Sciences
Philosophy
Dowling Hall/Humanities Center 110

Richard J . White, PhD

Professor

Professor

As a native of the United Kingdom, I studied Philosophy and Literature at the University of Warwick.  After I graduated I came to the United States where I completed my Ph. D in Philosophy at SUNY Stony Brook.  At Creighton I teach a variety of different courses, including:  Philosophy and Literature, Philosophy of Love and Sex, Multiculturalism, World Philosophy, 19th and 20th Century Philosophy, and most recently, Philosophy and Spirituality, which is now the focus of my concern. For several years I have been the Director of the Masters in Liberal Studies program.  My books include: Nietzsche and the Problem of Sovereignty (University of Illinois), Love's Philosophy (Rowman and Littlefield); Radical Virtues: Moral Wisdom and the Ethics of Contemporary Life (Rowman and Littlefield); The Heart of Wisdom: A Philosophy of Spiritual Life (Rowman and Littlefield); The Spiritual Guide: Four Steps on the Path of Enlightenment (Cascade ); My next book, Spiritual Philosophers: From Schopenhauer to Irigaray will be published by Bloomsbury Academic.  I have edited an anthology on the work of Friederich Nietzsche: Nietzsche: Critical and Historical Perspectives (recently re-released by Routledge), and I have also published many essays on the history of philosophy.  I believe that philosophy asks all the big questions; it is a spiritual practice; and it can help us to live a better life.

Curriculum Vitae

Research Focus

Philosophical perspectives on love, spirituality, wisdom, literature, and art.

Department

Philosophy

Position

Professor

Book, Chapter/Section

  • Nietzsche, Genealogy, Morality: Essays on Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals
    White Richard, The Return of the Master: An Interpretation of Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals [Book Chapter] 2023
  • Spirituality and the Good Life : Philosophical Approaches
    White Richard J., Starting with compassion [Book Chapter] 2017
  • The Pedagogy of Compassion at the Heart of Higher Education
    White Richard J., Compassion in philosophy and education [Book Chapter] 2017

Books

  • White Richard J., The Heart of Wisdom: A Philosophy of Spiritual Life 2013
  • White Richard J., Radical Virtues: Moral Wisdom and the Ethics of Contemporary Life 2008
  • White Richard J., Nietzsche 2002
  • White Richard J., Love's Philosophy 2001

General

  • White Richard J., The Cambridge companion to virtue ethics 2013
  • White Richard J., Reading the Secondary Text (on Nietzsche) 2000

Publications

  • Journal of Philosophy of Education
    White Richard, Luce Irigaray
    56:2, p. 251 - 264 2022
  • European Legacy
    White Richard, Thinking about Thinking in Adorno’s Minima Moralia
    27:2, p. 160 - 175 2022
  • Sophia
    White Richard, Schopenhauer, the Philosophy of Music, and the Wisdom of Classical Indian Philosophy
    60:4, p. 899 - 915 2021
  • Journal for the Study of Spirituality
    White Richard, Teaching spirituality
    11:1, p. 48 - 60 2021
  • Religion and the Arts
    White Richard J., Kandinsky- Thinking about the Spiritual in Art
    23:1, p. 26 - 49 2019
  • Journal of Aesthetic Education
    White Richard, Walter Benjamin
    51:1, p. 1 - 14 2017
  • Raritan
    White Richard J., Nature and the Pitfalls of Big History
    35:3, p. 15 - 29 2016
  • British Journal for the History of Philosophy
    White Richard J., Nietzsche on Generosity and the Gift-Giving Virtue
    24:2, p. 348 - 364 2016
  • Boston Review
    White Richard J., The Eternal Return of the Christian Nation
    40:5, p. 10 - 12 2015
  • Angelaki - Journal of the Theoretical Humanities
    White Richard J., Dialectics of mourning
    20:4, p. 179 - 192 2015
  • Human Studies
    White Richard J., Foucault on the Care of the Self as an Ethical Project and a Spiritual Goal
    37:4, p. 489 - 504 2014
  • Choice
    White Richard J., A philosophical history of love
    50:5, p. 888 - 888 2013
  • Choice
    White Richard J., Forgiveness and love [Review]
    50:10, p. 1848 - 1848 2013
  • Choice
    White Richard J., Migrating texts & traditions [REVIEW]
    50:12, p. 2244 - 2244 2013
  • Choice
    White Richard J., The Smile of tragedy: Nietzche and the art of Virtue
    50:4, p. 679 - 679 2012
  • APA Newsletter for Teaching Philosophy
    White Richard J., Teaching World Philosophy
    11:2, p. 5 - 9 2012
  • Heythrop Journal
    White Richard J., Levinas, The philosophy of suffering and the ethics of compassion.
    53:1, p. 111 - 123 2012
  • Choice
    White Richard J., Love: a history
    49:6, p. 1074 - 1074 2012
  • Choice
    White Richard J., Moralism: a study of a vice
    50:1, p. 97 - 97 2012
  • Choice
    White Richard J., Empathy: philosophical and psychological perspectives
    49:11, p. 2070 - 2070 2012
  • International Philosophical Quarterly
    White Richard, Schopenhauer and Indian philosophy
    50:1, p. 57 - 76 2010
  • Janus Head
    White Richard J., Bataille on Lascaux and the origins of art
    11:2, p. 319 - 331 2009
  • Utopian Studies
    White Richard J., George Orwell: Socialism and Utopia
    19:1, p. 73 - 95 2008
  • Journal of Philosophy of Education
    White Richard, Rousseau and the education of compassion
    42:1, p. 35 - 48 2008
  • Choice
    White Richard J., Taking ourselves seriously & Getting it right, p. 1546 - 1546 2007
  • Philosophy Today
    White Richard, Lyotard and posthuman possibilities
    50:2, p. 183 - 189 2006
  • Humanitas
    White Richard J., Herder: On the ethics of nationalism
    18:1/2, p. 166 - 181 2005
  • International Studies in Philosophy
    White Richard, Kaspar Hauser
    35:4 2003
  • Philosophy Today
    White Richard, Reflections on the scream
    47:1, p. 44 - 52 2003
  • Journal of Value Inquiry
    White Richard, Liberalism and Multiculturalism
    37:2, p. 205 - 216 2003
  • Teaching Philosophy
    White Richard, Thinking about love
    25:2, p. 111 - 121 2002
  • Teaching Philosophy
    White Richard J., Thinking about love: Teaching the philosophy of love (and sex)
    25:2, p. 111 - 121 2002
  • Journal of Value Inquiry
    White Richard, Friendship and commitment
    33:1, p. 79 - 88 1999
  • Heythrop Journal - Quarterly Review of Philosophy and Theology
    White Richard, The sublime and the other
    38:2, p. 125 - 143 1997
  • Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology
    White Richard, Georges bataille and the philosophy of the sacred
    26:1, p. 52 - 64 1995
  • The Journal of Value Inquiry
    White Richard, Historical perspectives on the morality of virtue
    25:3, p. 217 - 231 1991
  • The British Journal of Aesthetics
    White Richard, Art and the individual in Nietzsche's birth of tragedy
    28:1, p. 59 - 67 1988

Consulting

  • Program Reviewer
    I performed review of MALS Program at this site.
    Florida International University
    2014 - 2015