First Lecture:
Professor Fred Dallmayr delivered the first Balvant Parekh Distinguished Lecture on May 21, 2009
Fred Dallmayr is Packey J. Dee Professor of Political Theory at the University of Notre Dame, USA. His holds a Doctor of Law degree from the University of Munich (1955) and a Ph.D. in political science from Duke University (1960). He has been a visiting professor at Hamburg University in Germany and at the New School of Social Research in New York, and a Fellow at Nuffield College in Oxford. He has been teaching at Notre Dame since 1978. During the fall of 1991 he was in India on a Fulbright research grant. Among his publications are: Beyond Dogma and Despair (1981); Twilight of Subjectivity (1981); Language and Politics: Why Does Language Matter to Political Philosophy (1984); Polis and Praxis: Exercises in Contemporary Political Theory (1984) Critical Encounters: Between Philosophy and Politics (1987); Margins of Political Discourse (1989); Between Freiburg and Frankfurt: Toward a Critical Ontology (1991, American edition); Life-World, Modernity and Critique (1991, British edition); G. W. F. Hegel: Modernity and Politics (1993); The Other Heidegger (1993); Beyond Orientalism: Essays on Cross-Cultural Encounter (1996); Alternative Visions: Paths in the Global Village (1998); Border Crossings: Toward a Comparative Political Theory (1999); Achieving Our World: Toward a Global and Plural Democracy (2001); Dialogue Among Civilizations: Some Exemplary Voices (2002); Peace Talks: Who Will Listen? (2004); Small Wonder: Global Power and Its Discontents (2005); In Search of Good Life: A Pedagogy for Troubled Times (2007).