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D. C. Schindler
Born (1970-12-22) December 22, 1970 (age 53)
Upland, California
RegionWestern Philosophy
SchoolNeoplatonism
Thomism
Continental Philosophy
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David Louis Schindler, Jr. (pen name David Christopher (“D.C.”) Schindler (born December 22, 1970) is an American philosopher and translator, specializing in metaphysics, philosophical anthropology, philosophy of religion, and moral and political philosophy. His work falls in the broadly Neoplatonic tradition, though he is also associated with Thomism, certain strains of German Idealism, and the Communio/Ressourcement school of theology. He is a professor of Metaphysics and Anthropology at the Pontifical John Paul II Institute in Washington, D.C.

Education and academic work

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Schindler was educated in the Program of Liberal Studies at the University of Notre Dame, where his father, David L. Schindler, was then teaching. During his time at college, he completed a year of French study at L’Université Catholique de l’Ouest, in Angers, France. In 1995, he completed a Masters of Sacred Theology at the John Paul II Institute in Rome, and in 1997, a Masters of Arts in Philosophy at The Catholic University of America. In 2001, he completed his Doctorate in Philosophy at the Catholic University of America, with a dissertation on “The Dramatic Structure of Truth, in Dialogue with Hans Urs von Balthasar and Continental Philosophy from Kant to Heidegger,” under the direction of Riccardo Pozzo.[1]

From 2001 to 2013, Schindler held a teaching fellowship in philosophy and then became one of the founding members of the Department of Humanities at Villanova University, with a stint in Munich for an Alexander von Humboldt Research fellowship, 2007-2008.[2] Since 2013, he has been a professor at the John Paul II Institute in Washington D.C., where his father also taught. He has served as an editor and translator for the English edition of Communio: International Catholic Review since 2002.[3]

Honors and awards

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In 2014, he was invited to give the annual John Paul II Lecture at the University of Dallas;[4] in 2015, he gave the Bitar Lecture at Geneva College in Pennsylvania;[5] in the Fall of 2017, he gave the McMahon Aquinas Lecture at St. Mary's College in Notre Dame, IN;[6] in Fall of 2018, he gave the Albacete Lecture at the Sheen Center in New York.[7]

In 2022, he was awarded the Aquinas Medal at the University of Dallas, delivering the annual Aquinas Lecture there.[8]

He has also given invited lectures at Hillsdale College in Michigan,[9] Franciscan University in Ohio,[10] St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Pennsylvania,[11] St. Anselm's Abbey in Washington, D.C.,[12] St. Patrick's Pontifical University in Maynooth, Ireland,[13] and other locations.

Schindler has been elected vice-president, and then president, of the American Catholic Philosophical Association for 2024-2026.[14]

Works

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  • God and the City: An Essay in Political Metaphysics (South Bend, Ind.: St. Augustine’s Press, 2023)[15]
  • Retrieving Freedom: The Christian Appropriation of Classical Tradition (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2022).[16][17]
  • The Politics of the Real: The Church Between Liberalism and Integralism (Steubenville, OH: New Polity Press, 2021).[18]
  • A Companion to Ferdinand Ulrich's Homo Abyssus (Washington, D.C.: Humanum Academic Press, 2019).[19]
  • Love and the Postmodern Predicament: Rediscovering the Real in Beauty, Goodness, and Truth] (Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2018).[20]
  • Freedom from Reality: The Diabolical Character of Modern Liberty (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2017).[21][22][23]
  • The Catholicity of Reason (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2013).[24][25]
  • The Perfection of Freedom: Schiller, Schelling, and Hegel Between the Ancients and the Moderns (Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2012).[26][27]
  • Plato’s Critique of Impure Reason: On Truth and Goodness in the Republic (Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of American Press, 2008).[28][29]
  • Hans Urs von Balthasar and the Dramatic Structure of Truth: A Philosophical Investigation (New York: Fordham University Press, 2004).[30]

References

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  1. ^ "D.C. Schindler". Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage & Family.
  2. ^ "Prof. Dr. David Schindler". Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
  3. ^ "D. C. Schindler". Communio.
  4. ^ "D.C. Schindler to Give Annual John Paul II Lecture: Marriage as Natural Sacrament". University of Dallas. 2004. Archived from the original on 2024-01-02. Retrieved 2024-08-05.
  5. ^ "2014-15 Bitar Memorial Lecture". Geneva College. Retrieved 2024-08-06.
  6. ^ "The Annual McMahon Aquinas Lecture". Saint Mary's College. 2019. Retrieved 2024-08-05.
  7. ^ "The 2019 Albacete Lecture on Faith and Culture". The Sheen Center for Thought & Culture. Archived from the original on 2021-06-17. Retrieved 2024-08-05.
  8. ^ "The Aquinas Lecture". University of Dallas.
  9. ^ Schindler, D. C. (2018). Love and the postmodern predicament: rediscovering the real in beauty, goodness, and truth. Veritas. Eugene, Oregon: Cascade Books. pp. vii–viii. ISBN 978-1-5326-4874-8. OCLC 1027130885.
  10. ^ "Retrieving Beauty eProgram 2017 Summer Seminar" (PDF). Retrieved 2024-08-05.[dead link‍]
  11. ^ See the seminary's press release.
  12. ^ "Public Lecture: The Question of Gender and the Teaching of Humanae Vitae on the Wrongfulness of Contraception – Lonergan Institute". Lonergan Institute. Retrieved 2024-08-06.
  13. ^ "The Future of Christian Thinking" (PDF). St Patrick’s Pontifical University. Retrieved 2024-08-05.
  14. ^ "About". American Catholic Philosophical Association. 23 May 2023.
  15. ^ "A City Isn't a City Without the Church | Peter J. Leithart". First Things. 2 February 2024.
  16. ^ Long, Stephen Arden (March 2024). "Book Review: Schindler, D. C.: Retrieving Freedom: The Christian Appropriation of Classical Tradition". Theological Studies. 85 (1): 191–193. doi:10.1177/00405639241229904a.
  17. ^ Spiering, Jamie Anne (2023). "Retrieving Freedom: The Christian Appropriation of Classical Tradition by D. C. Schindler (review)". The Review of Metaphysics. 76 (4): 769–771. doi:10.1353/rvm.2023.a899490. ISSN 2154-1302.
  18. ^ Chapp, Larry. "A profound critique of Liberalism and an essential analysis of Integralism". The Catholic World Report.
  19. ^ Platter, Jonathan M. (January 2020). "Improvisations in Thomistic Methaphysics: Reading Ferdinand Ulrich Homo Abyssus : The Drama of the Question of Being, FerdinandUlrich, Humanum Academic, 2018 (ISBN 978-1-948195-01-0), lviii + 526 pp., hb $70A Companion to Ferdinand Ulrich's Homo Abyssus, D. C.Schindler, Humanum Academic, 2019 (ISBN 978-1-948195-03-4), x + 238 pp., pb $30". Reviews in Religion & Theology. 27 (1): 18–23. doi:10.1111/rirt.13714. ISSN 1350-7303.
  20. ^ Trepanier, Lee (24 March 2019). "Love and the Postmodern Predicament: Rediscovering the Real in Beauty, Goodness, and Truth". VoegelinView.
  21. ^ Arnold, Alec (February 2019). "Book Review: Freedom from Reality: The Diabolical Character of Modern Liberty". Irish Theological Quarterly. 84 (1): 112–114. doi:10.1177/0021140019830020j. ISSN 0021-1400.
  22. ^ Segrest, Scott Philip (June 2019). "Freedom from Reality: The Diabolical Character of Modern Liberty by D. C. Schindler". The Review of Metaphysics. 72 (4): 810–812. doi:10.1353/rvm.2019.0078. ISSN 2154-1302.
  23. ^ Foss, Jerome (25 January 2021). "Review of D. C. Schindler, "Freedom from Reality: The Diabolical Character of Modern Liberty"". Journal of Moral Theology. 10 (1): 246–247.
  24. ^ Robinette, Brian D. (March 2015). "Book Review: The Catholicity of Reason. By D. C. Schindler". Theological Studies. 76 (1): 227. doi:10.1177/0040563914565315x. ISSN 0040-5639.
  25. ^ Farrow, Douglas (2017). "The Catholicity of Reason by D. C. Schindler". Nova et Vetera. 15 (2): 683–687. doi:10.1353/nov.2017.0032. ISSN 2470-5861.
  26. ^ Seymour, Robert (January 2015). "The Perfection of Freedom: Schiller, Schelling, and Hegel between the Ancients and the Moderns by D. C.Schindler, Cascade, 2013 (ISBN 978-1-62032-182-9), xxvi + 410 pp., pb $47". Reviews in Religion & Theology. 22 (1): 74–78. doi:10.1111/rirt.12461. ISSN 1350-7303.
  27. ^ Thomas, Mark J. (2013). "The Perfection of Freedom: Schiller, Schelling, and Hegel Between the Ancients and the Moderns, by David C. Schindler". Schelling-Studien. 1: 225–228.
  28. ^ Payne, Andrew (October 2010). "The Republic - (D.C.) Schindler Plato's Critique of Impure Reason. On Goodness and Truth in the Republic. Pp. xiv + 358. Washington: The Catholic University of America Press, 2008. Cased, US$79.95. ISBN: 978-0-8132-1534-1". The Classical Review. 60 (2): 369–370. doi:10.1017/S0009840X1000017X. ISSN 1464-3561.
  29. ^ Stevens, Paul (1 March 2009). "Schindler, D.C. Plato's Critique of Impure Reason: On Goodness and Truth in the Republic". The Review of Metaphysics. 62 (3): 689–691.
  30. ^ Olsen, I. I. I. (1 September 2005). "Schindler, D. C. Hans Urs von Balthasar and the Dramatic Structure of Truth: A Philosophical Investigation". The Review of Metaphysics. 59 (1): 202–204.
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