Richard Amesbury is a philosopher and scholar of religion with three main (occasionally overlapping) areas of interest: (a) religion and contemporary political thought; (b) Wittgenstein; and (c) the politics of the secular.
Prior to joining ASU he held the chair in Theological Ethics at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, and chaired the Philosophy and Religion Department at Clemson University, where he was Professor of Philosophy and of Religious Studies.
Professor Amesbury’s current research examines the ensemble of dispositions, affects, and intuitions that comprise the secular – i.e., the epistemic regime within which religion emerges as an object of interest, anxiety, regulation, and academic study. More broadly, he is interested in methodology in the humanities and in the role our moral reactions play in providing access to an intelligible, objective world.
Fall 2021 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
REL 201 | Religion and the Modern World |
Spring 2020 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
HST 357 | Hist Persp on Phil & Religion |
REL 391 | Hist Persp on Phil & Religion |
PHI 391 | Hist Persp on Phil & Religion |