D. C. Schindler

David Louis Schindler, Jr. (pen name David Christopher (“D.C.”) Schindler (born December 22, 1970) is an American philosopher and translator, specializing in metaphysics, philosophical anthropology, philosophy of religion, and moral and political philosophy. His work falls in the broadly Neoplatonic tradition, though he is also associated with Thomism, certain strains of German Idealism, and the Communio/Ressourcement school of theology. He is a professor of Metaphysics and Anthropology at the Pontifical John Paul II Institute in Washington, D.C.

Education and academic work
Schindler was educated in the Program of Liberal Studies at the University of Notre Dame, where his father, David L. Schindler, was then teaching. During his time at college, he completed a year of French study at L’Université Catholique de l’Ouest, in Angers, France. In 1995, he completed a Masters of Sacred Theology at the John Paul II Institute in Rome, and in 1997, a Masters of Arts in Philosophy at The Catholic University of America. In 2001, he completed his Doctorate in Philosophy at the Catholic University of America, with a dissertation on “The Dramatic Structure of Truth, in Dialogue with Hans Urs von Balthasar and Continental Philosophy from Kant to Heidegger,” under the direction of Riccardo Pozzo.

From 2001 to 2013, Schindler held a teaching fellowship in philosophy and then became one of the founding members of the Department of Humanities at Villanova University, with a stint in Munich for an Alexander von Humboldt Research fellowship, 2007-2008. Since 2013, he has been a professor at the John Paul II Institute in Washington D.C., where his father also taught. He has served as an editor and translator for the English edition of Communio: International Catholic Review since 2002.

Honors and awards
In 2014, he was invited to give the annual John Paul II Lecture at the University of Dallas; in 2015, he gave the Bitar Lecture at Geneva College in Pennsylvania; in the Fall of 2017, he gave the McMahon Aquinas Lecture at St. Mary's College in Notre Dame, IN; in Fall of 2018, he gave the Albacete Lecture at the Sheen Center in New York.

In 2022, he was awarded the Aquinas Medal at the University of Dallas, delivering the annual Aquinas Lecture there.

He has also given invited lectures at Hillsdale College in Michigan, Franciscan University in Ohio, St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Pennsylvania, St. Anselm's Abbey in Washington, D.C., St. Patrick's Pontifical University in Maynooth, Ireland, and other locations.

Schindler has been elected Vice-President, and then President, of the American Catholic Philosophical Association for 2024-2026.

Works

 * God and the City: An Essay in Political Metaphysics (South Bend, Ind.: St. Augustine’s Press, 2023)
 * Retrieving Freedom: The Christian Appropriation of Classical Tradition (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2022).
 * The Politics of the Real: The Church Between Liberalism and Integralism (Steubenville, OH: New Polity Press, 2021).
 * A Companion to Ferdinand Ulrich's Homo Abyssus (Washington, D.C.: Humanum Academic Press, 2019).
 * Love and the Postmodern Predicament: Rediscovering the Real in Beauty, Goodness, and Truth] (Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2018).
 * Freedom from Reality: The Diabolical Character of Modern Liberty (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2017).
 * The Catholicity of Reason (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2013).
 * The Perfection of Freedom: Schiller, Schelling, and Hegel Between the Ancients and the Moderns (Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2012).
 * Plato’s Critique of Impure Reason: On Truth and Goodness in the Republic (Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of American Press, 2008).
 * Hans Urs von Balthasar and the Dramatic Structure of Truth: A Philosophical Investigation (New York: Fordham University Press, 2004).