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Dr. Gregory Grobmeier specializes in 20th century and contemporary European political thought, Holocaust Studies, post-Holocaust philosophy and theology, and the history of philosophy. Dr. Grobmeier also serves as Senior Term Professor in the Philosophy Department at Regis University, where he regularly teaches first-year courses and upper division seminars for the Regis College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Dr. Grobmeier is currently working on a book-length study on the question of community and the problem of political authority as it figures in several 20th century and contemporary European philosophers and political theorists: Martin Heidegger, Hannah Arendt, Emmanuel Levinas, Georges Bataille, Maurice Blanchot, and Jean-Luc Nancy. The book situates these thinkers against the historical backdrop of the social and political circumstances under which they were living and writing (the rise of fascism, the crises of liberalism and liberal democracy, the aftermath of the Second World War, and the collapse of Soviet communism in the late 1980s and early 1990s) in order to argue that any conception of authority fashioned according to the political-theological ideal of “sovereignty” is inherently hostile to “community.”