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Biography
Dr. Steven V. Hicks is Professor of Philosophy. As a native of southern Mississippi, he received his undergraduate degree from Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi, and his M.A, M. Phil., and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University in the City of New York. While a graduate student at Columbia University, Hicks was also a German Academic Exchange Scholar (DAAD) at the Ruhr Universität in Bochum, Germany. Prior to coming to Penn State Behrend in 2010, Dr. Hicks taught a variety of courses in philosophy, literature, humanities, and social and political theory at Columbia University, Concordia College, Queens College/CUNY, and the Graduate Center/CUNY. From 1996-2010 he was Professor and Chair of Philosophy of Queens College of the City University of New York. As Chair of Philosophy at Queens College, he had a hand in overseeing and coordinating a number of interdisciplinary programs, such as a major and minor in Religious Studies and an M.A. in Liberal Studies.
Dr. Hicks is the author of numerous journal articles and book chapters on Hegel, Nietzsche, nineteenth-century German philosophy and literature, and social and political philosophy. His books include International Law and the Possibility of a Just World Order (1999), Mythos and Logos: How to Regain the Love of Wisdom (2004), The Challenges of Globalization: Rethinking Nature, Culture, and Freedom (2007), and Reading Nietzsche at the Margins (2008). From 2003-2005, Hicks served as President of the International Society for Universal Dialogue founded at Warsaw University, Poland; and from 2001-2004, he served on the board of editorial consultants for the History of Philosophy Quarterly. Currently he is the editor of the special book series Universal Justice published by Editions Rodopi, and he is on the editorial board of the “Hegelian Research Studies Series” published by the journal Clio: A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History.
As the former director of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences from 2010-2015, Dr. Hicks worked with faculty to develop a new signature degree program in Arts Administration designed for students with an interest in the arts who want to pursue careers in the management of arts organizations. He also worked with faculty to develop a variety of certificate programs in the areas of Advertising, Public Relations, Legal Studies, Behavioral Health and Counseling Psychology, Child Development, as well as interdisciplinary programs in Game Development (with the School of Engineering), and Consumer Psychology (with the Black School of Business). Outside the office, his hobbies include music, hiking, biking, canoeing, fishing, cross-country skiing, and travel.
Publications
"Universal Dialogue in an Age of Crisis: Challenges and Aspirations" - September 1, 2021
Nationalism, Globalism, and the Challenges to Universal Dialogue, Dialogue and Universalism (University of Warsaw Press) - January, 2019
Challenges of Universal Dialogue: Philosophical Ideals for a More Decent World, Dialogue and Universalism - 2016
Hegel on International Relations and the Logic of Recognition, Dialogue and Universalism - 2016
Hegel on Cosmopolitanism, International Relations, and the Challenges of Globalization - 2012
The Project of Reconciliation and the Road to Redemption: Hegel’s Social Philosophy and Nietzsche’s Critique, The American Journal of Economics and Sociology - 2009
Reading Nietzsche at the Margins - 2008
Collaborator: Alan Rosenberg, Co-Editor
Editorial Foreword to Human Rights Ethics - 2008
Editorial Introduction: Reading Nietzsche at the Margins - 2008
Collaborator: Alan Rosenberg
Nietzsche and the Transfiguration of Asceticism: An Ethics of Self-Fashioning - 2008
Collaborator: Alan Rosenberg
Rethinking Global Concepts: An Interview with Steven V. Hicks and Daniel E. Shannon, Ticker - 2008
The Challenges of Globalization: Rethinking Nature, Culture, and Freedom - 2007
Collaborator: E. Shannon, Co-Editor
Rethinking Nature, Culture, and Freedom, The American Journal of Economics and Sociology - 2007
Rüdiger Safranski’s Nietzsche: A Philosophical Biography, The Journal of Nietzsche Studies - 2006
Collaborator: Alan Rosenberg
Mythos, Logos, and the Love of Wisdom, Dialogue and Universalism - 2005
Nietzsche and Disruptive Wisdom, Dialogue and Universalism - 2005
Collaborator: Alan Rosenberg
Nietzsche, Safranski, and the Art of Self-Configuration, Dialogue and Universalism - 2005
Collaborator: Alan Rosenberg
Mythos and Logos: How to Regain the Love of Wisdom - 2004
Collaborators: Albert Anderson, Co-Editor; Lech Witkowski, Co-Editor
Loving Wisdom - 2004
Collaborators: Albert Anderson; Lech Witkowski
Philosophy as Atopos: Disruptive Wisdom as a Way of Life - 2004
Collaborator: Alan Rosenberg
The Figural Dimension of Nietzsche’s Thought, Mythos and Logos: How to Regain the Love of Wisdom - 2004
Collaborator: Alan Rosenberg
Suffering, Nihilism, and Beyond, Skepsis: A Journal for Philosophy and Interdisciplinary Research - 2004
Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Foucault: Nihilism and Beyond - 2003
Nietzsche and Untimeliness: The Philosopher of the Future as the Figure of Disruptive Wisdom, The Journal of Nietzsche Studies - 2003
Collaborator: Alan Rosenberg
Regionalism, Globalism, and the Prospects for World Order: A Hegelian Approach, Interpretation: A Journal of Political Philosophy - 2002
An Essay on Hegel’s Universalism, Dialogue and Universalism - 2001
International Law and the Possibility of a Just World Order: An Essay on Hegel’s Universalism - 1999
'O Himmel, jetzt kommt Hegel an die Reihe’: Fontane and Hegel on Social Substance, Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies - 1999
Collaborator: Edith Krause
Education, Community, and Universalism: An Introduction, Dialogue and Universalism - 1998
Hegel on International Law, International Relations, and the Possibility of World Community, Dialogue and Universalism - 1995
Illusion and Dissolution: Fontane’s Stine, German Studies Review - 1995
Collaborator: Edith Krause
Individualism, Communalism, and Universalism in Hegel’s Ethical Thought, Dialogue and Universalism - 1995
Persons and International Law in Hegel - 1992
Education
Ph D, Philosophy, Columbia University
Graduate Study, Ruhr Universität
M.Phil., Philosophy, Columbia University
MA, Philosophy, Columbia University
BA, Millsaps College