ABOUT NICK DUNGEY

Nicholas Dungey is a Professor of Political Philosophy at CSU Northridge. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 1998. He specializes in Modern and Contemporary political theory, with an emphasis in postmodern thought. Attempting to move beyond the modern conceptions of subjectivity, language, power, and the politics that express them, his research is mapping the territory of a postmodern ethics and politics.

He is the author of, "(Re)Turning Derrida to Heidegger: Being-with-others as Primordial Politics," (Polity); "The Ethics and Politics of Dwelling," (Polity); "Thomas Hobbes's Materialism, Language, and the Possibility of Politics" (The Review of Politics); "Hobbes and Shakespeare: Macbeth and the Fragility of Politics," (Sage); and the forthcoming book, Franz Kafka and Michel Foucault: Power, Resistance, and the Art of Self-Creation.

Nick has taught at UC Davis, UC Santa Barbara, and CSU Northridge. He lives in both Los Angeles and Prague with his wife and step-son.