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Eric Anthamatten

Eric Anthamatten is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the New School for Social Research in New York City. His work focuses on philosophy, education, and social justice, more specifically on issues surrounding education in marginal, non-traditional, and non-academic settings: the prison, adult education, the homeless. Eric received an M.A. in Philosophy from Texas A&M University as well as a Bachelor of Science in Political Science and a minor in electronic music. He has taught philosophy since 2001 at various institutions in Texas and New York, ranging from community colleges to small privates schools, from major public universities to maximum security prisons in rural Texas. He is also an instructor of martial arts in Manhattan, where he teaches students ranging from age three to sixty-three, a pedagogical scene that he sees as continuous with his philosophical work. 

Follow Eric on Twitter @eAnthamatten.


Articles

  • Wednesday, April 24, 2013

    Drawing on the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas and the story of Cain and Abel, Eric Anthamatten offers an ethical consideration of torture and the hunt for a faceless Osama bin Laden in the movie...

  • Tuesday, July 3, 2012

    The skyscraper, that icon of ingenuity and capitalist triumph, is monumental, but its construction comes at a price. Indeed, each product of our economic system, be it a skyscraper or a...

  • Thursday, February 10, 2011

    After Mohammad Rasoulof made The White Meadows, he and fellow filmmaker Jafar Panahi were sentenced to six years in prison. The Iranian government also banned the pair from filmmaking for...

  • Friday, June 4, 2010

    Out of sight, out of mind; so the saying goes. In the United States, prisons are often located away from urban centers and curious eyes. Thus, the prisoners inside are even more obscured. In this...

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