Michael Gelven

Michael Gelven, (1937-2018) was a Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Northern Illinois University, where he taught for 46 years. Gelven held a Ph.D. in philosophy from Washington University, penned a well known commentary on Martin Heidegger's Being and Time, and wrote several books as well as numerous scholarly articles. Gelven was primarily interested in continental philosophy and had a wide range of specialties including: ontology, metaphysics, Heidegger, Kant, Nietzsche, philosophy in literature, and the philosophy of war.

Books

 * A Commentary on Heidegger's Being and Time (1st edition) (1970)
 * Winter, friendship, and guilt; the sources of self-inquiry (1973)
 * A Commentary on Heidegger's Being and Time (2nd edition) (Sep 1989)
 * Truth and Existence: A Philosophical Inquiry (Nov 1990)
 * Spirit and Existence: A Philosophical Inquiry (Aug 1990)
 * Why Me?: A Philosophical Inquiry into Fate (Nov 1991)
 * The Quest for the Fine (Jan 1996)
 * The Risk of Being: What It Means to Be Good and Bad (Nov 1997)
 * This Side of Evil (Jun 1999)
 * Truth and the Comedic Art (Sep 2000)
 * War and Existence: A Philosophical Inquiry (Jan 30, 2000)
 * The Asking Mystery: A Philosophical Inquiry (Mar 2000)
 * What Happens to Us When We Think: Transformation and Reality (Jul 2003)
 * Judging Hope: A Reach to the True and the False (Jun 2004)
 * Why Johnny Can't Think: In the name of "openness" American minds have been closed. (Dec 2013)

Articles

 * “Language as Saying and Showing,” Journal of Value Inquiry (1983)
 * “The Literary and the True,” Man and World (1984)
 * “Nietzsche's Existential Methodology,” Proceedings of the Heraclitean Society (1985)
 * “Is Sacrifice a Virtue,” Journal of Value Inquiry (1987)