Thomas R. FlynnSamuel Candler Dobbs Professor Emeritus

PhD, Columbia University, 1970

Contemporary continental (especially French) philosophy, aesthetics, social and political philosophy, and the theory of responsibility.

• Review Editor of the international philosophical quarterly, Man and World (1978-97)
• A.C.L.S. Senior Research Fellow (1984-85)
• Mellon Fellow
• National Humanities Center (1991-92)
• National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow
• Institute for Advanced Study (1998-99)

• Sartre and Marxist Existentialism: The Test Case of Collective Responsibility (Chicago, 1986)
• Sartre, Foucault, and Historical Reason
• (Vol. 1): Toward an Existentialist Theory of History (Chicago, 1997)
• (Vol. 2): A Post-structuralist Mapping of History (Chicago, 2005)
• Sartre: A Philosophical Biography (Cambridge, 2014)