Antoine Pageau-St-Hilaire is currently a FRQSC (Fonds de Recherche du Québec – Société et Culture) Postdoctoral Research Fellow affiliated with Boston University and the University of Oxford. He obtained his Ph.D. from the John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago in 2023. His doctoral dissertation examined German Platonism before and after Heidegger, with a specific focus on the ethical crux of dialectic and dialogue. His research interests include post-Kantian European philosophy, especially phenomenology and hermeneutics, and ancient Greek philosophy, especially Plato and Aristotle. He is the author of several articles in both fields of study.
His current project is a comprehensive study of Hans-Georg Gadamer’s Aristotelianism. Its purposes are to determine through philosophical and philological analysis how Gadamer understood Aristotelian philosophy as a whole, to understand how Gadamer’s interpretation of Aristotle influenced his development of philosophical hermeneutics, and to propose a critique of Gadamerian hermeneutics based on some problems in Gadamer’s interpretation of Aristotle’s work and resources in Aristotelian thought that he may have neglected. Antoine was awarded a 2023 Gadamer Stipendium by the Hans-Georg Gadamer Gesellschaft for this research project.
Antoine will be a Visiting Scholar at Boston University for the 2023-2024 Academic Year.
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