Professor William Egginton

William Egginton is Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities and Chair of the Department of German and Romance Languages and Literatures at Johns Hopkins University, USA. He is the author of In Defense of Religious Moderation , How the World Became a Stage, Perversity and Ethics, A Wrinkle in History, The Philosopher's Desire, and The Theater of Truth . He is also the coeditor of Thinking with Borges and The Pragmatic Turn in Philosophy . Egginton writes for the digital salon Arcade,...See more

William Egginton is Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities and Chair of the Department of German and Romance Languages and Literatures at Johns Hopkins University, USA. He is the author of In Defense of Religious Moderation , How the World Became a Stage, Perversity and Ethics, A Wrinkle in History, The Philosopher's Desire, and The Theater of Truth . He is also the coeditor of Thinking with Borges and The Pragmatic Turn in Philosophy . Egginton writes for the digital salon Arcade, published by Stanford University, and The Stone, an online forum for contemporary philosophers published by the New York Times . His intellectual biography of Cervantes, The Man Who Invented Fiction , will be published by Bloomsbury in 2014. See less