Name: William Leon McBride

Birth Date: January 19, 1938

Current Rank: Professor

Academic Training:

Georgetown University, A.B., 1959

Université de Lille, 1959-60

Yale University, M.A., 1962

Yale University, Ph.D., 1964

Academic appointments:

Yale University, Instructor, 1964-66

Yale University, Assistant Professor, 1966-70

Yale University, Associate Professor, 1970-73

Northwestern University, Summer 1972

Purdue University, Associate Professor, 1973-76

Purdue University, Professor, 1976-

Sofia Univ hodology; philosophy of the social sciences; philosophy in Central and Eastern Europe.

Authored Books

Fundamental Change In Law and Society: Hart and Sartre on Revolution, Mouton and Co., The Hague, 1970

The Philosophy of Marx, Hutchinson Univ. Library, London, and St. Martin's Press, New York, 1977

Social Theory at a Crossroads, Duquesne University Press, Pittsburgh, 1980

Demokrati og Autoritet (with response by Robert A. Dahl), Dreyers, Oslo, 1980

Sartre's Political Theory, Indiana University Press, 1991

Social and Political Philosophy, Paragon Press, 1994

Philosophical Reflections on the Changes in Eastern Europe, Rowman & Littlefield, 1999.

Edited Books

With Calvin O. Schrag, Phenomenology in a Pluralistic Context, SUNY Press, Albany, 1983.

Sartre and Existentialism, 8 volumes: 1. The Development and Meaning of Twentieth-Century Existentialism; 2. Existentialist Background: Kierkegaard, Dostoevsky, Nietzsche, Jaspers mporaries and Enduring Influences. Garland Publishing, Hamden, Connecticut, 1997.

Edited Special Journal Double Issue

With Peter Caws, Bulletin de la Société Américaine de Philosophie de Langue Française, Vol. IV, 2-3 (Summer-Fall 1992) on Sartre.

Chapters in Books:

"Jean-Paul Sartre: Man, Freedom, and Praxis," Existential Philosophers, ed., G. Schrader, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1967, pp. 261-329.

"Voluntary Association: The Basis of an Ideal Model, and the 'Democratic' Failure," Voluntary Associations (Nomos XI), ed. Pennock and Chapman, Atherton, New York, 1969, pp. 202-232. [Reprinted in Existential Phenomenology and Political Theory, ed. H.Y. Jung, Regnery, Chicago, 1972, pp. 390-428.]

"Towards a Phenomenology of International Justice," Law, Reason and Justice: Essays in Legal Philosophy, ed. G. Hughes, New York University Press, New York, 1969, pp. 137-167.

"Sartre and the Phenomenology of Social Violence," New Essays in Phenomenology, ed. J. Edie, Quadrangle, New York, 1969, pp. 290-313.

"Individualisms," Patterns of the Life-World, ed. Edie, Parker and Schrag, Northwestern University Press, Evanston, 1969 (Festschrift for John Wild), pp. 201-227.

"Non-Coercive Society: Some Doubts, Leninist and Contemporary," Coercion (Nomos XIV), ed. Pennock and Chapman, Aldine-Atherton, Chicago, 1972, pp. 178-197.

"Sartre and Marxism," The Philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre, ed. P. Schilpp, Open Court, La Salle, Ill., 1981, pp. 605-630. [Reprinted in Vol. 6 of Sartre and Existentialism (see Lukács Today: Essays In Marxist Philosophy, ed. T. Rockmore (Sovietica), D. Reidel, Dordrecht, 1988, pp. 108-125.]

"La philosophie politique sartrienne d'après le deuxième tome de la Critique de la raison dialectique," Gli scritti postumi di Sartre, ed. Invitto and Montano, Casa Ed. Marietti, Genoa, 1993, pp. 227-238.

"The Marxian Vision of a (Better) Possible Future: End of a Grand Illusion?" Artifacts, Representations, and Social Practice: Essays for Marx Wartofsky, ed. Cohen and Gould, Kluwer, Dordrecht, 1993, pp. 441-461.

(With Ivanka Raynova) "Visions from the Ashes: Philosophical Life in Bulgaria from 1945 to 1992," Philos erviews by Y. Raynova, Izdatelstvo, Pleven, 1995, pp. 137-147.

"Sartre's Debts to Kierkegaard: A Partial Reckoning", Kierkegaard in Post/Modernity, ed. Matuötk and Westphal, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 1995, pp. 18-42. [Reprinted in Vol. 2 of Sartre and Existentialism (Philosophical Perspectives, ed. D. C. Durst, M. Dimitrova, A. Gungov, and B. Vassileva, EOS Publishing House, Sofia (Bulgaria), 1998, pp. 12-26.]

Published Articles:

"Sartre's Philosophy of History," Eros 8:1, 1981, pp. 71-81.

"Sartre and Lived Experience," Research in Phenomenology XI (1981), pp. 75-89.

"The Fetishism of Illegality and the Mystifications of 'Authority' and 'Legitimacy,'" Georgia Law Review 18, 4(1984), pp. 863-890.

(With Alison M. Jaggar) "'Reproduction' as Male Ideology," Women's Studies International Forum 8, 3 (1985), pp. 185-196. [Reprinted in Hypatia Reborn: Essays in Feminist Philosophy, ed. A.Y. al-Hibri and M.A. Simons, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 1990, pp. 249-269.]

"Jean-Jacques Rousseau," Encyclopedia of Religion, 1986.

"The Evolution of Sartre's Conception of Morals," Phenomenological Inquiry, Oct. 1987, pp. 24-44.

"The Case of Sartre," Social Research 56, 4 (Winter 1989), pp. 849-875.

"'Two Concepts of Liberty' Thirty Years Later: A Sartre-Inspired Critique," Social Theory and Practice 16, 3 (fall 1990), pp. 297-322.

"Social Justice on Trial: The Verdict of History." Analecta Husserliana XXXI (1990), pp. 159-168.

"Global Injustices," Philosophical Inquiry XII, 3-4 (summer-fall 1990), pp. 1-16.

"Sartre and His Successors: Existential Marxism and Postmodernism at Our Fin de Siècle," Praxis International 11, 1 (April 1991), pp. 78-92. [Reprinted in Vol. 8 of Sartre and Existentialism (See ta Universitatis Lodziensis, Folia Philosophica 8, 1991, pp. 69-80.]

"Sartre e il postmodernismo," Segni e comprensione 16 (May-Aug. 1992), pp. 21-30.

"Community: The Dialectic of Abanonment and Hope in the Light of Sartre's Last Words," Bulletin de la Société Américaine de Philosophie de Langue Française IV, 2-3 (1992), pp. 218-231.

"The Pathos of European Political Philosophy after Marxism," Journal of Philosophical Research XIX, 1994, pp. 331-343.

Published Reviews:

W. Desan, The Marxism of Jean-Paul Sartre, Man and World, Fall 1969, pp. 613-625.

L. Althusser, For Marx, Yale Daily News, December 1970.

P. Chiodi, Sartre and Marxism, International Studies in Philosophy X, 1978, p. 249, and Clio 9:1 (1979), pp. 155-157.

Review of the English translation of Sartre's Critique of Dialectical Reason, Journal of the History of Philosophy, XV ophe de la vie et de la praxis, Review of Metaphysics 35, 2 (December 1981), pp. 382-383.

Jeanson, F., Sartre and the Problem of Morality, tr. by R. Stone, Canadian Philosophical Reviews, Vol. 1, No. 6 (December 1981), pp. 263-266.

R. Aronson, Jean-Paul Sartre -- Philosophy in the World; P. Caws, Sartre; and I. Meszaros, The Works of Sartre, Vol. I, Ethics, April 1982, pp. 561-563.

"What Is the Value of Thinking?", review of E. Young-Bruehl's Hannah Arendt: For Love of the World, Yale Law Journal, December 1982, pp. 396-406.

McLellan, D., Karl Marx: His Life and Thought, Midstream, January 1983, pp. 53-55.

Barnes, H., Sartre and Flaubert, Review of Metaphysics, 37, 2 (December 1983), pp. 389-390.

Sartre, J.-P., The Family Idiot, Review of Metaphysics, 37, 2 (December 1983), pp. 417-418.

Parekh, B., Hannah Arendt and the Search for a New Political Philosophy, The Review of Politics 46 (1), January 1984, pp. 141-142.

Touraine, A., The Voice and the Eye: An Analysis of Social Movements, Ethics 94, 3 (April 1984), p. 564.

Aronson, R., The Dialectics of Disaster, Ethics 95, 4 (July 1985), pp. 967-968.

Catalano, J., A Commentary on Jean-Paul Sartre's Critique of Dialectical Reason, volume 1, Theory of Practical Ensembles, Canadian Philosophical Reviews 8 (November 1988), pp. 430-432.

Howells, C., Sartre: The Necessity of Freedom, Modern Fiction Studies 35, 2 (summer 1989), pp. 358-359.

Bush, T., The Power of Consciousness and the Force of Circumstances in Sartre's Philosophy, The Review of Politics 52 (summer 1990), pp. 475-477.

Sartre, J.-P., "What is Literature?" and Other Essays, ed. S. Ungar, APA Newsletter on Teaching Philosophy 89, 2 (winter 1990), pp. 19-20.

Sartre, J.-P., Critique of Dialectical Reason, Volume Two, APA Newsletter on Teaching Philosophy 92, 1 (spring 1993), pp. 130-131.

Dobson, A., Jean-Paul Sartre and the Politics of Reason, Ethics 105, 4 (July 1995), pp. 955-957.

Sartre, J.-P., and Lévy, B., Hope Now (English translation), Radical Philosophy Review of Books 14 (1996), pp. 13-19.

Gordon, Lewis R., Bad Faith and Antiblack Racism, Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 28, 3 (October 1997), pp. 322-325.

Flynn, Thomas R., Sartre, Foucault, and Historical Reason: Toward an Existentialist Theory of History, Vol. Habermas and the Marxian Tradition, for forthcoming volume on Habermas, Open Court Press

"Sartre’s Response to Kant’s Question, ‘What May I Hope?’", for proceedings of the World Congress on Mulla Sadra

Review of Karen Vintges, Philosophy as Passion: The Thinking of Simone de Beauvoir; Eva Lundgren-Gothlin, Sex & Existence: Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex; and Debra Bergoffen, The Philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir: Gendered Phenomenologies, Erotic Generosities, Continental Philosophy Review