Fred Dolan

Frederick M. Dolan is a professor within Humanities & Sciences at California College of the Arts and Professor Emeritus of Rhetoric at the University of California at Berkeley.

Dolan's primary interests include the relationship of modern political theory to the philosophical and religious traditions and their critics, modernity and postmodernity, the worldly dimensions of imaginative literature, American political theory, literature, film, hermeneutics, and aesthetics.

He has lectured on these topics throughout the United States and Europe and published his work in Political Theory, The American Political Science Review, Philosophy and Social Criticism, Polity, The Journal of Political Science, The Journal of Politics, The Cardozo Review, The Massachusetts Review, Diacritics, Discourse, Crossings, Contemporary Fiction, and The Cambridge University Press Companion to Hannah Arendt, among others.

Dolan's research deals with such figures as Heidegger, Nietzsche, Derrida, Foucault, Arendt, Nancy, Lacoue-Labarthe, Lacan, Wallace Stevens, Walt Whitman, William Burroughs, James Merrill, and Stanley Kubrick. Books include Allegories of America: Narratives, Metaphysics, Politics (Cornell University Press, 1995); Rhetorical Republic: Governing Representations in American Politics (with Thomas L. Dumm, University of Massachusetts Press, 1994); and Between Freedom and Terror: Literature, Philosophy, and Political Theory Speak to Modernity (with Simona Goi, Lexington Press, 2007).

For several years Dolan coedited (with Judith Butler) the series Atopia: Political Theory, Philosophy, Aesthetics (Stanford University Press).