Bruce Baugh

Areas of interest

Continental philosophy, walking and philosophy, aesthetics, French existentialism, Marxism and surrealism, and memory and history.

Education

• PhD, Philosophy, University of Toronto
• MA, Philosophy, University of British Columbia
• BA (Honours), Philosophy, University of British Columbia

Biography

Bruce Baugh Professor Emeritus, Philosophy, at Thompson Rivers University (Kamloops), where he is Principal Investigator of the Walking Lab, an interdisciplinary research group on walking. He is the author of "French Hegel: From Surrealism to Postmodernism" (Routledge, 2003) and numerous articles on Deleuze, Sartre, Derrida, Heidegger, Spinoza and others in journals such as the "Journal of Value Inquiry," "Continental Philosophy Review," "Dialogue," the "Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism," and the "Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology." His translation of translation of Benjamin Fondane, "Existential Monday: Philosophical Essays," was published by NYRB Classics in 2016. He was Executive Editor of Sartre Studies International from 2005 to 2015 and is currently still on its editorial advisory board. He is a long-time member of the Editorial Board of Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy and has served as s referee for numerous journals ("Dialogue"; "Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism"; "Revue philosophique de Louvain," etc.). His current project, "Philosopher’s Walks: Philosophy and Walking," will be published by Routledge in 2022, and contains essays on walking and the philosophies of Descartes, Gassendi, Sartre, Heidegger, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard and Rousseau.