Christoph Cox

Biography
Christoph Cox, Professor of Philosophy, teaches and writes on contemporary European philosophy and contemporary art and music. Cox is the author of Sonic Flux: Sound, Art, and Metaphysics" (University of Chicago Press, 2018), Nietzsche: Naturalism and Interpretation (University of California Press, 1999) and co-editor of Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music (Continuum, 2004/Bloomsbury 2017) and Realism Materialism Art (Sternberg, 2015). The recipient of a 2009 Arts Writers Grant from Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation, Cox is editor-at-large for Cabinet magazine. His writing has appeared in October, Artforum, the Journal of the History of Philosophy, Journal of Visual Culture, The Wire and other journals and magazines. He has curated exhibitions at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, The Kitchen in New York City, New Langton Arts in San Francisco, and The Brick & Mortar International Video Art Festival.

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Education

 * B.A., Semiotics/Modern Culture & Media, Brown University


 * Ph.D., History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz

Selected Courses
Sonic Philosophy

Sustainability and Extinction: Life and Death in the Modern World

Kant and German Idealism

Metaphysics and the New Realism

Philosophies of Modern and Contemporary Art

Audio Culture: Theories and Practices in Music Now

Philosophy as a Way of Life

Philosophy, Relativism, and Truth

On Time and Being

The Posthuman Condition

Marx and Marxisms

Contemporary French Philosophy

Nineteenth-Century German Philosophy

Nietzsche

Alienation (First-Year Seminar)

Books, Essays, Etc.
For links to Christoph's writing, talks, events, and other information, go to his webpage: http://faculty.hampshire.edu/ccox/