Kain, Philip J. 1943–

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Kain, Philip J. 1943–

(Philip Joseph Kain)

PERSONAL: Born May 21, 1943, in San Francisco, CA; son of Joseph F. (a sales manager) and Laura (a housewife; maiden name, Fino) Kain; married Helen Nakamura (a teacher), April 2, 1967; children: Joseph, Benjamin. Ethnicity: "Irish-Italian-American." Education: St. Mary's College of California, B.A., 1966; University of California, San Diego, Ph.D., 1974.

ADDRESSES: Home—1292 Mount Hermon Rd., Scotts Valley, CA 95066. Office—Department of Philosophy, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA 95053; fax: 408-551-1839. E-mail—pkain@scu.edu.

CAREER: University of California, Santa Cruz, assistant professor of philosophy, 1974–82; Stanford University, Stanford, CA, lecturer in Western Culture Program, 1982–86; Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA, associate professor, 1988–94, professor of philosophy, 1994–.

WRITINGS:

Schiller, Hegel, and Marx, McGill-Queen's University Press (Montreal, Quebec, Canada), 1982.

Marx: Method, Epistemology, and Humanism, D. Reidel (Dordrecht, Netherlands), 1986.

Marx and Ethics, Oxford University Press (New York, NY), 1988.

Marx and Modern Political Theory, Rowman & Little-field (Lanham, MD), 1993.

Hegel and the Other: A Study of the Phenomenology of Spirit, State University of New York Press (Albany, NY), 2005.

WORK IN PROGRESS: Nietzsche and the Horror of Existence.

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