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Michael E. Zimmerman

Michael E. Zimmerman was Professor of Philosophy at Tulane University for 31 years, from 1975-2006, and then came to Boulder, where he was Director of the Center for Humanities and the Arts from 2006-2010. In 2010 he returned to teaching, and retired as Emeritus Professor of philosophy in 2015. He had an extraordinarily productive and successful scholarly career, writing in environmental philosophy, integral theory, Heidegger and Nietzsche, and Buddhism. He’s written four books:

Eclipse of the Self: The Development of Heidegger's Concept of Authenticity (Athens: Ohio University Press, 1981; second edition, 1986).
Heidegger's Confrontation with Modernity: Technology, Politics, and Art (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990).
Contesting Earth’s Future: Radical Ecology and Postmodernity (The University of California Press, 1994).
Integral Ecology: Uniting Multiple Perspectives on the Natural World (with Sean Esbjörn Hargens) (Boston: Integral Publications:Shambhala, 2009).

and is also the author of a widely used anthology on environm

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Michael E. Zimmerman is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Humanities and the Arts at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He has been concerned about environmental problems since his undergraduate years, and his research has examined the metaphysical, cultural, ethical, cognitive, political, and religious dimensions of such problems.

Like many others in the field of environmental studies, Zimmerman maintains that a multidisciplinary approach is needed both to comprehend the issues and to propose effective solutions. Although criticizing the command-and-control attitude toward nature that has characterized modernity, Zimmerman has also warned of the dangers posed by the anti-modernist attitudes that characterize some versions of environmentalism. He asks: How to retain what is noble about modernity, including the freedoms connected with politics, research, and religion, while correcting its shortcomings, including serious environmental problems?

In addition to his work with philosophers Ken Wilber and Sean-Esbjörn Hargens on helping to develop and app

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Michael E. Zimmerman

American philosopher

Michael E. Zimmerman is an American philosopher, integral theorist, author, and academic. He is a Professor Emeritus of Philosophy for Tulane University and University of Colorado at Boulder (CU Boulder).^[1]

Zimmerman's research revolves around environmental philosophy, philosophy of technology, and integral theory with books and articles focusing on anthropogenicenvironmental issues and Martin Heidegger's philosophy.^[2] While critiquing the command-and-control approach to nature associated with modernity, he highlighted the dangers posed by anti-modernist attitudes found in certain environmentalist perspectives.^[3] His anthology Environmental Philosophy: From Animal Rights to Radical Ecology was the first to include essays on deep ecology and he helped develop an integrative model for anthropogenic environmental problems presented in Integral Ecology: Uniting Multiple Perspectives on the Natural World. He also authored Eclipse of the Self: The Development of Heidegger's Concept of Authenticity,