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Roger S. Gottlieb
Professor
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Office: Salisbury Laboratories, 04
Phone: +1-508-831-5439
Fax: +1-508-831-5932
gottlieb@wpi.edu
Related Information
Educational Background
- B.A., Brandeis University, 1968
- Ph.D., Philosophy, Brandeis University, 1975
Research & Teaching Interests
Ecology; social and political philosophy; Marxism; ethics; existentialism; philosophical implications of the Holocaust; philosophy of religion; Oriental philosophy; feminist philosophy
IQP Advising Interests
Political action and the environmental crisis; philosophy; ethics & issues
Research
Roger S. Gottlieb is professor of philosophy at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He is the author or editor of fourteen books and more than 100 articles on political philosophy, environmentalism, ethics, religion, spirituality, the Holocaust, and disability. He is editor of six academic book series, book review editor of Capitalism, Nature, Socialism: A Journal of Socialist Ecology, contributing editor for the national magazine Tikkun, and on the editorial boards of Social Theory and Practice and Worldviews: Religion, Nature, Culture.
Gottlieb’s writings have appeared in top academic journals such as the Journal of Philosophy, Journal of the American Academy of Religion, andEthics; and in popular publications such as The Boston Globe, E Magazine Online, and Orion Afield. Widely respected for his unique range of interests, combination of personal and political passion, clarity of writing, and originality, he is probably the only American intellectual to be reviewed or interviewed in publications as disparate as New Age Journal, Philosophy and Social Criticism, Rethinking Marxism, Ethics, America, Discover, American Prospect, Chronicle of Higher Education, and The San Francisco Chronicle
For the last fifteen years Gottlieb has concentrated on the political, ethical, and religious dimensions of the environmental crisis and on the broad social and normative connections between religion and politics. His anthology This Sacred Earth: Religion, Nature, Environment is known internationally as the first comprehensive collection on the topic. His 1999 book, A Spirituality of Resistance: Finding a Peaceful Heart and Protecting the Earth was called by Protestant theologian John Cobb "a true spiritual guide for our day," and praised by Elie Wiesel. His 2002 book Joining Hands: Politics and Religion Together for Social Change received advance acclaim from Harvey Cox and Bill McKibben. His recent work on religious environmentalism, A Greener Faith: Religious Environmentalism and our Planet’s Future and Oxford Handbook on Religion and Ecology establishes him as the leading analyst of this unprecedented political, environmental, and religious movement.
Recent Publications
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