{"id":39285,"date":"2013-06-19T11:53:49","date_gmt":"2013-06-19T15:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/experts\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=39285"},"modified":"2023-06-02T14:56:43","modified_gmt":"2023-06-02T18:56:43","slug":"c-allen-speight","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/profile\/c-allen-speight\/","title":{"rendered":"C. Allen Speight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Allen Speight is Professor of Philosophy and Director of Graduate Admissions in the Department of Philosophy at Boston University. A former Fulbright and DAAD Fellow, his research and teaching interests center on aesthetics and the philosophy of art and culture as well as the philosophy of religion and ethics, with a particular historical interest in the period of German Idealism. His first book, <em>Hegel, Literature and the problem of Agency<\/em> (Cambridge University Press), traced the importance of literary genres \u2013 tragedy, comedy and the romantic novel of the beautiful soul \u2013 to the philosophical project of Hegel\u2019s <em>Phenomenology of Spirit<\/em>.\u00a0 He is also author of <em>The Philosophy of Hegel<\/em> (McGill), editor of <em>Philosophy, Narrative and Life<\/em> (Springer), co-editor (with Sarah Vandegrift Eldridge) of <em>Goethe\u2019s Wilhelm Meister\u2019s Apprenticeship and Philosophy<\/em> (Oxford) and (with David Eckel and Troy DuJardin) of <em>The Future of the Philosophy of Religion <\/em>(for more information see his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/philo\/profile\/c-allen-speight\/\">BU website<\/a>.)\u00a0 Prof. Speight is currently working on projects concerning the philosophical significance of early art and the origins and future of secularism.\u00a0 His graduate level teaching has included courses on aesthetics and the philosophy of art, the philosophy of narrative and Hegel\u2019s <em>Phenomenology of Spirit<\/em>, among other topics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11144,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/39285"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11144"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/39285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72185,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/39285\/revisions\/72185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}