Andrew J. MitchellDepartment ChairProfessor

PhD, Stony Brook University, 2001

• 19th & 20th Century German Philosophy, esp. Fichte, Schelling, Nietzsche, Heidegger
• Aesthetics and Philosophy of Literature

• National Endowment for the Humanities Scholarly Editions and Translations grant (2025-26)
• American Council of Learned Societies Collaborative Research Fellowship (2016-17)
• National Endowment for the Humanities Enduring Questions grant (2010)
• National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (2009)
• Post-doctoral Fellowship in the Humanities, Stanford University (2004-2007)
• Departmental Exchange Fellowship, SUNY Stony Brook & Bergische Universität-Gesamthochschule Wuppertal, Germany (1996-1997)

Books

• Drinking with Heidegger, or Basic Concepts of Oenology (in preparation)
• Heidegger and Renaissance Denial: German Anti-Latinity (in perparation)
• The Fourfold: Reading the Late Heidegger (Northwestern UP, 2015)
• Heidegger Among the Sculptors: Body, Space, and the Art of Dwelling (Stanford UP, 2010)

Translations

• Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy / Unpublished Basel Writings (Winter 1869/70–Fall 1873), trans. Sean D. Kirkland and Andrew J. Mitchell, The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche, vol. 1 (Stanford UP, 2026).
• Friedrich Nietzsche, Unpublished Fragments from the Period of "The Birth of Tragedy" (Fall 1869–Spring 1872), trans. Sean D. Kirkland and Andrew J. Mitchell, The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche, vol. 10 (Stanford UP, in preparation).
• Peter Trawny, Heidegger and the Myth of a Jewish World Conspiracy (Chicago, 2015)
• Martin Heidegger, On Hegel's Philosophy of Right: The 1934-35 Seminar and Interpretive Essays (Bloomsbury, 2014)
• Martin Heidegger, Bremen and Freiburg Lectures: Insight Into That Which Is and Basic Principles of Thinking (Indiana UP, 2012)
• Martin Heidegger, Four Seminars, trans. Andrew J. Mitchell and François Raffoul, Martin Heidegger, Four Seminars (Indiana UP, 2003)

Edited Volumes

• Heidegger's "Black Notebooks": Responses to Anti-Semitism, eds. Andrew J. Mitchell and Peter Trawny (Columbia UP, 2017). Listen to audio from this conference on iTunes.
• Heidegger, die Juden, noch einmal, eds. Andrew J. Mitchell and Peter Trawny (Klostermann, 2015)
• Derrida and Joyce: Texts and Contexts, eds. Andrew J. Mitchell and Sam Slote (SUNY, 2013)
• The Obsessions of Georges Bataille: Community and Communication, eds. Andrew J. Mitchell and Jason Winfree (SUNY, 2009)

Selected Articles

• "Fichte's Reader and the Autopoiesis of the Wissenschaftslehre, 1794-1804."
  Fichte's 1804 Wissenschaftslehre: Esssays on the "Science of Knowing," eds. B. Crowe and G. Gottlieb (SUNY, 2024);
• "Hemsterhuis and Mediation."
  Symphilosophie: International Journal of Philosophical Romanticism 4 (2022);
• "Fichte's Subject and Its Romantic Transformations."
  Palgrave Handbook of German Romantic Philosophy, ed. E. Millán (Palgrave, 2020);
• "Schopenhauer's Influence on Wagner."
  With K. Karnes. The Oxford Handbook of Schopenhauer, ed. R. Wicks (Oxford UP, 2020);
• "Heidegger and the Machine: Reading the Technology Notebooks."
  Heidgger on Technology, eds. A.J. Wendland, C. Merwin, and C. Hadjioannou (Routledge, 2018);
• "Rethinking Thinking: Heidegger in the 1950s."
  Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 38: 1 (2017);
• "Heidegger's Breakdown: Health and Healing Under the Care of Dr. V.E. von Gebsattel."
  Research in Phenomenology 46 (2016).