Richard Eldridge

Richard Eldridge (born September 14, 1953) is an American philosopher and the Charles and Harriett Cox McDowell Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Swarthmore College. He is known for his works on philosophy of art.

Books Werner Herzog––Filmmaker and Philosopher, Bloomsbury, 2019 Images of History: Kant, Benjamin, Freedom, and the Human Subject, Oxford University Press, 2016 Stanley Cavell and Literary Studies: Consequences of Skepticism, Richard Eldridge and Bernard Rhie (eds.), Continuum, 2011 The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Literature (ed.), Oxford University Press, 2009 Literature, Life, and Modernity Columbia University Press, 2008 An Introduction to the Philosophy of Art, Cambridge University Press, 2003 Stanley Cavell (ed.), Cambridge University Press, 2003 Persistence of Romanticism: Essays in The Philosophy and Literature, Cambridge University Press, 2001 Leading a Human Life: Wittgenstein, Intentionality, and Romanticism, University of Chicago Press, 1997 Beyond Representation: Philosophy and Poetic Imagination (ed.), Cambridge University Press, 1996 On Moral Personhood: Philosophy, Literature, Criticism, and Self-Understanding, University of Chicago Press, 1989