Sean Dorrance Kelly

Photograph © Cheryl Kelly Chen

About The Author

Sean Dorrance Kelly is Dean of Arts and Humanities and professor of philosophy at Harvard University. Before arriving at Harvard, Kelly taught at Stanford and Princeton, and he was a visiting professor at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris. He is considered a leading interpreter of the French and German tradition in phenomenology, as well as a prominent philosopher of mind. Kelly has published articles in numerous journals and anthologies and has received fellowships or awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the NEH, the NSF and the James S. McDonnell Foundation, among others.

Books by Sean Dorrance Kelly

All Things Shining

Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular Age

By Hubert Dreyfus and Sean Dorrance Kelly
An inspirational book that is “a smart, sweeping run through the history of Western philosophy. Important for the way it illuminates life today and for the controversial advice it offers on how to live” (The New York Times).
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