Frederick M. Dolan

Frederick M. Dolan (bornMarch 17, 1955) is Professor Emeritus of Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley and Professor of Humanities at the California College of the Arts in Oakland and San Francisco. He teaches and writes on the relationship between political theory and the philosophical tradition, theories of interpretation, aesthetics, and such figures as Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger, Hannah Arendt, and Michel Foucault.

At Princeton University, he studied under Sheldon S. Wolin and Richard Rorty.

• Allegories of America: Narratives, Metaphysics, Politics. Cornell University Press, 1994.
• Between Freedom and Terror: Philosophy, Political Theory, and Literature Speak to Modernity. Co-edited with Simona Goi. Lexington Books, 2006.
• Rhetorical Republic: Governing Representations in American Politics. Co-edited with Thomas L. Dumm. University of Massachusetts Press, 1993.