Lecturer in Philosophy
Jared Highlen – Curriculum Vitae
Jared Highlen specializes in modern and contemporary European philosophy, especially hermeneutics and phenomenology, and social-political philosophy. He received his PhD in Philosophy from Boston College in Spring 2024. Currently, his research focuses on the role of language and social interpretive practices in Hannah Arendt’s political ontology. He has additional research interests in aesthetics and philosophy of religion. Apart from his dissertation, Hermeneutics of the Polis: Arendt and Gadamer on the Political World, his recent publications include “Arendt’s Phenomenology of Political Forgiveness,” Philosophical Forum 54, 3 (2023): 105-119; and “‘No One Was As Great As Abraham’: Exemplarity and the Failure of Hermeneutical Refiguration in Fear and Trembling,” Kierkegaard Studies Yearbook 28, 1 (2023): 3-27.