Curriculum Vitae
Larry Shiner
Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus,
University of Illinois, Springfield
BOOKS
Art Scents: Exploring the Aesthetics of Smell (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020)
The Invention of Art: A Cultural History (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001). (Translations: Spanish, Italian, Turkish, Korean, Farsi)
The Secret Mirror: Literary Form and History in Tocqueville’s Recollections (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988).
The Secularization of History: Introduction to the Theology of Friedrich Gogarten (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1967).
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
“What WAS Fine Art? Painting and Sculpture Before and After the Reign of the Fine Arts,” in Nöel Carroll and Jonathan Gilmore, eds. Routledge Companion to Painting and Sculpture (Forthcoming).
“Art Museum Architecture in the 21st Century,” in Aesthetics: A Reader in Philosophy of the Arts, David Goldblatt, et. al, eds. New York: Routledge, 2018.
“Architecture vs. Art: The Aesthetics of Art Museum Design,” in Arnold Berleant and Yuriko Saito, eds. Perspectives on Contemporary Art (Providence, RI: Rhode Island School of Design) 2015.
“Symbolist Aspects of Mackintosh’s Architecture,” in Rosina Neginsky, ed. Light and Obscurity in Symbolism and Decadence (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press), 2015.
“Craft” The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, 2nd ed., Michael Kelly, ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014).
“Folk Art,” The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, 2nd ed. Michael Kelly, ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014).
“Symbolism and Crime: Architecture of the Vienna Secession,” in Rosina Neginsky, ed., Symbolism: Its Origins and Consequences (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2010).
“Arnold Berleant,” Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers, ed. John R. Shood (Bristol, U.K: Thoemmes, 2005).
“Hilde Hein,” Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers, ed. John R. Shood (Bristol, U.K: Thoemmes, 2005).
“Western and Non-Western Art: Universality and Authenticity,” in Art and Essence, ed. Stephen Davies (New York: Greenwood Press, 2003), pp.143-156.
“The Fate of Craft,” in Neo-Craft: Modernity and the Crafts, ed. Sandra Alfoldy (Halifax, N.S: Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, 2007), pp. 33-46.
ARTICLES IN JOURNALS
“Recent Advances in Smellscape Research for the Built Environment,” Frontiers in Psychology. 12:700514. Ju;y 19, 2021. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.700514. Joint authors Xiao J AlettaF, Radicchi A, McLean K, Shiner LE and Verbeek C. My section is called “Rediscovering Designed Smellscapes.”
“Opening the Way for an Olfactory Aesthetics: Smell’s Cognitive Powers,” For a Special Issue of Revista di estetica on “The Sense of Smell: Scents, Odors and Aromatic Spaces.” Vol. LXI, 78, March 2021, pp. 8-26
“Touching the Past,” Studi de esthetic Vol. XLIX, IVth Series, No.19 (1) 2021, pp. 257-262.
“An Alternative to ‘Rules’ in Practice Approaches to Distinguishing Art Kinds,” Contemporary Aesthetics, Vol. 7, (2019). Accessible at contempaesthetics.org.
“Art Scents: Perfume, Design, and Olfactory Art,” British Journal of Aesthetics Vol. 55:3, 375-392, 2015.
“Art’s Abject Other or the “New Cool?” Should Philosophy Rethink the Art/Craft Dichotomy?” Aesthetics Vol. 32, No. 1, 2012. (Newsletter of the American Society for Aesthetics)
“Artification, Fine Art, and the Myth of ‘the Artist,’” Contemporary Aesthetics 11 2012 www.Contempaesthetics.org
“Blurred Boundaries? Rethinking the Concept of Craft and its Relation to Art and Design,” Philosophy Compass 7:4 April 2012, pp. 230-244
“On Aesthetics and Function in Architecture: The Case of the Spectacle Art Museum,” Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Vol. 69, Winter, 2011, 31-41.
“Functional Beauty, the Metaphysics of Beauty and Specific Functions in Architecture,” Sztuka I Filozofia (Art and Philosophy), Fall, 2009, 78-99.
“Continuity and Discontinuity in the Concept of Art,” British Journal of Aesthetics, Vol. 49, No.2, April, 2009, pp. 159-169.
“Temptation to Self-Indulgence? Aesthetics and Function in Recent Art Museum Design,” Nordic Journal of Aesthetics, No. 36-37, 2008-2009, pp. 54-80.
“Architecture vs. Art: The Aesthetics of Art Museum Design,” in Contemporary Aesthetics 5 (on-line) (2007), www.Contempaesthetics.org.
“The Aesthetics of Smelly Art,” (with Yulia Kriskovets), Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Vol. 65, No. 2, Summer, 2007, 273-286,
“‘Primitive Fakes,’‘Tourist Art,’and the Ideology of Authenticity,” Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Vol. 52, No. 2, 1994, 225-234.
“Flaubert’s Parrot, Agee’s Swan: From Reality Effect to Fiction Effect,” Journal for the Study of Narrative Technique, Vol. XX, No. 2, 1990, 167-178.
“Rhetoric, Religion and Revolution: Reflections on Tocqueville,” Journal of Religious Studies, Vol. II, No. 1, 1989.
“Writing and Political Carnival in Tocqueville’s Recollections,” History and Theory, Vol. XXV, No. 1, 1986, 17-32.
“Foucault, Phenomenology and the Question of Origins,” Philosophy Today, Vol. 26, No. 4/4, Winter 1982.
“Reading Foucault: Anti-Method and the Genealogy of Power-Knowledge,” History and Theory, Vol. XXI, No. 3, 1982.
"Foucault and the Unconscious of History," The Psychohistory Review, Vol. 10, No. 1, 1981.
"Tradition/Modernity: An Ideal Type Gone Astray," Comparative Studies in Society and History, Vol., 17, No. 2, 1975, 245-252.
"Some Structures of Historiographical Temporality," Southern Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 11, No. 4, 1974.
"Sacred Space, Profane Space, Human Space," Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Vo. XL, No. 4, 1972, 426-36.
"Husserl and Historical Science," Social Research, Vol. 37, No. 4, 1970, 151-161.
“"A Phenomenological Approach to Historical Knowledge," History and theory, Vol. VIII, No. 2, 1969, pp. 260-272.
"The Concept of Secularization in Empirical Research," Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. VI, No. 2, 1967, 207-220. (Reprinted with revisions in International Yearbook for the Sociology of Religion, Vol. III, 1967, pp. 51-60. Reprinted in original form in: Secularization, Boletin I, Instituto Fe Y Secularidad, Madrid, 1970, 5-8; James F. Childress and David B. Harned, eds., Secularization and the Protestant Prospect, Philadephia, 1970; Kenneth Thompson and Jeremy Tunstall, eds., Sociological Perspectives, Baltimore, 1971, pp. 460-474; Sabino S. Acquaviva and Gustavo Guizzardi, La secolarizzazione, Bologna, 1973; Norbert Brockman and Nicholas Piediescalzi, Contemporary Religion and Social Responsibility, New York, 1973, pp. 95-101; William M. Newman, The Social Meanings of Religion, Chicago, 1974).
“The Theological Contribution of Carl Michalson,” Religion in Life, Spring, 1967.
“Toward a Theology of Secularization,” Journal of Religion, XLV, No. 4, 1965, pp. 279-295.
“La Pensée et l’action sociales dans le protestantisme américain: une introduction,” and “De nouvelles structures pour l’Église dans une société urbanisée,” in Christianisme Social, 71: 9-12, Septembre-Décembre, 1963, pp. 557-67 and 711-721. (I was Guest Editor for this issue).
“Goodbye Death of God,” Christian Century, (1958). (My first publication; a short satirical piece on the so-called “Death of God Theology.”)
REVIEW ESSAYS
"The History of Psychoanalysis in France,"The Psychohistory Review, Vol.21, No.1, 1992, 107-120.
"The Darker Side of Hellas: Sexuality and Violence in Ancient Greece," The Psychohistory Review, Vol. 9, No. 2, 1980, 111-135.
“La question de Dieu,” Revue d’Histoire de Philosophie Religieuses, No. 2, 1969, pp. 157-161.
SOME INVITED LECTURES
“Beyond Fine Art: Reintegrating Fine Art, Craft and Design,” Opening lecture for the seminar, “Towards a New Paridign of the History of Art, Design and Craft,” organized by Escola Massana & Museu de Disseny, Barcelona, November, 2021.
“The Challenge of Olfactory Art,” Institute for Art and Olfaction, Los Angeles, CA., December 9, 2020.
“Art and Scent: Interpreting the Olfactory Arts,” MACRO (Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma), Rome, September 14, 2019.
“Art Museum Architecture in the 21st Century: Inside and Out,” Invited lecture given at the Southern California Art History Association, Santa Monica, 2015.
“Fragrance, Aroma, Stench: Perfume Among the Olfactory Arts,” given at the Colloquium on “Scent, Science and Aesthetics: Understanding Smell and Anosmia,” Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, 2013.
“Art’s Abject Other or the ‘New Cool’? Rethinking the Art/Craft Dichotomy?” Philosophy Department, Boston University, 2012.
CONFERENCE PAPERS
(I have listed only those since 1990 which were not subsequently published in the form originally presented, although parts of several papers have been incorporated into my books..)
“Reply to Critics,” American Society for Aesthetics, Montreal, Canada, November 2021.
“Nietzsche’s Nose: Towards an Olfactory Aesthetics,” American Society for Aesthetics, Pacific Division, Asilomar Conference, April, 2018.
“Is a Critical Olfactory Aesthetics Possible? Implications from the Neurosceinces,” American Society for Aesthetics, New Orleans, 2017
“Is Fashion Art? The Case of Avant-Garde Fashion,” American Society for Aesthetics, Seattle, 2016.
“Can Smell Enable Critical Aesthetic Reflection on Olfactory Art? Some Implications from Neuroscience and Psychology,” British Society of Aesthetics, Oxford, 2016.
“The Smell of Revolution: Is Perfume an Olfactory Art?” American Society for Aesthetics, San Diego, 2013.
“The Art, Craft and the Aesthetics of Cooking: Tiravanija and Rubell,” American Society for Aesthetics, Tampa, Florida, 2011
“Between Art and Design: Craft in a Digital Age,” American Society for Aesthetics, Victoria, British Columbia, 2010.
“Architecture as/for Art: The Ethos of Museum Design,” American Society for Aesthetics, Providence, Rhode Island, 2005.
“Hanging Out to Dry: A Tribute to Holly Smith Pedlosky’s ‘Aphrodite’s Girdle, Athena’s Shawl,’ American Society for Aesthetics, San Francisco, 2003
“Desecrating the Temple: The New Museum and the Boundaries of Art,” American Society for Aesthetics, Minneapolis, Oct. 2001
“Rousseau, Revolution, and the Festival,” American Society for Aesthetics, University of Nevada at Reno, Oct. 2000
“Re-reading the History of Aesthetics with Mary Wollstonecraft,” American Society for Aesthetics, Washington, D.C., Oct. 1999
"Cultural Encounters of the Third Kind: Native American Crafts and the Euro-American Idea of Art," American Society for Aesthetics, Santa Fe, Oct. 1997
"The Social Construction of Art in the Eighteenth Century," American Society for Aesthetics, Montreal, Oct. 1996
"Kristeller, `The Death of Art' and Duchamp's Fountain," American Society for Aesthetics, St. Louis, Oct. 1995
"The Revenge of Craft," American Society for Aesthetics, Charleston, 1994
"Postmodern Pretentions," International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Montreal, 1991
"Bad Readers: Flaubert and the Construction of the Reader," Society for the Study of Narrative, Columbus, 1990
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Teaching & Research
Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, University of Illinois at Springfield, 2004
Professor of Philosophy, University of Illinois at Springfield, 1971-2004
Associate Prof. of Religion, Cornell College, 1962-1971
Assistant Prof. of Philosophy, University of Tampa, 1961-62
Teaching Areas
Philosophy
Philosophy of Art
Philosophy of History
Architecture & Society
Seminars on Rousseau, Tocqueville, Nietzsche
History
The Enlightenment
French Revolution & Napoleon
Editorial Experience
Editor, The Psychohistory Review, 1987-1999
Administration
Dean of Academic Programs, Sangamon State University, 1975-78
Dean of Humanities, Sangamon State University, 1974-75
PERSONAL
Address: 9 Orchard Lane, Springfield, Illinois 62712
Phone: Home: 217-529-9802 Cell: 217-553-7455
E-Mail: Work: lshin1@uis.edu Home: lshiner1@aol.com
Birth Date: May 6, 1934, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Education:
Topeka High School, Topeka Kansas 1952
Oberlin College, 1952-1954
Northwestern University, B. A., 1956
Drew University, M. Div. 1959
Université de Strasbourg, Docteur ès Sciences Religeuses, 1961