James C. Risser

James Conrad Risser (born 1946) is an American philosopher and Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Seattle University where he was Pigott-McCone Endowed Chair of Humanities between 1991 and 1994. He is a former president of the North American Society of Philosophical Hermeneutics (2012–2015). Risser is known for his works on Heideggerian philosophy and hermeneutics.

Books (Edited) Philosophy, Art and the Imagination: Essays on the Work of John Sallis. (Leiden: Koninklijke Brill NV, 2022). The Life of Understanding: A Contemporary Hermeneutics. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2012) (Edited) American Continental Philosophy. Edited by Walter Brogan and James Risser. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000) (Edited) Heidegger Toward the Turn: The Work of the 1930s. (Albany: SUNY Press, 1999) Hermeneutics and the Voice of the Other: Re-reading Hans-Georg Gadamer's Philosophical Hermeneutics (Albany: SUNY Press, 1997)