Frederick J. Adelmann, S.J., Professor of Philosophy John Sallis has received several honors in recognition of his contributions to philosophy.聽 Most recently, 15 essays on Sallis鈥� work were published in the volume Philosophy, Art, and the Imagination, edited by James Risser. Sallis also was selected as the 2021 鈥淧rofessor Honoris Causa鈥� by the International Institute of Hermeneutics. Two volumes in the planned 40-volume set of Sallis鈥� writings鈥攎any of which are related to his lectures at Boston College鈥攁re scheduled for publication by the end of this year through Indiana University Press; five have already been released.
These accomplishments are the latest for Sallis, recipient of the 2019 Comparative and Continental Philosophy Circle Compass Award鈥攂estowed in recognition 鈥渙f his pointing the way to a more inclusive and compassionate world鈥濃�攁nd the focus of a 2018 conference, 鈥淛ohn Sallis: A Celebration of His Work,鈥� at the Duquesne University Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center, which subsequently established an archive for his papers and library.
University Communications | September 2022