{{short description|American philosopher}} {{Use mdy dates|date=June 2025}} {{Infobox philosopher |region = Western philosophy |era = 21st-century philosophy |color = |image = |name = Gerald Bruns |birth_date = April 10, 1938 |birth_place = |death_date = |death_place = |school_tradition = Continental | institutions = University of Notre Dame<br />University of Iowa<br />Ohio State University |main_interests = Modern and contemporary poetry and poetics, twentieth century experimental fiction, European philosophy since Heidegger | thesis_title = | thesis_url = | thesis_year = | doctoral_advisor = | academic_advisors = |notable_ideas = | spouse = | education = Marquette University (BA, MA)<br />University of Virginia (PhD) | alma_mater = |influences = |influenced = |awards = |website = }} '''Gerald L. Bruns''' (born April 10, 1938) is an American literary scholar and philosopher and William P. & Hazel B. White Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Notre Dame.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bruns |first1=Gerald |title=On Ceasing to Be Human |url=https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=20177 |publisher=Stanford University Press |date=2010|isbn=9780804772082 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Gerald Bruns |url=https://english.nd.edu/people/faculty/emeritus/bruns/ |website=Department of English // University of Notre Dame}}</ref> He is the author of ten books and has published nearly a hundred essays.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://retirees-emeriti.nd.edu/assets/390249/gerald_bruns.pdf |title=Gerald Bruns, Curriculum Vitae |access-date=13 August 2024}}</ref>
Bruns received his BA from Marquette University in 1960 and his PhD from the University of Virginia in 1965. He taught at Ohio State University, the University of Iowa, and University of Notre Dame.
Bruns was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship twice (1974, 1985) and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
==Books== * ''Modern Poetry and the Idea of Language'', Yale University Press, 1974. 2nd ed. Dalkey Archive Press, 2001. * ''Inventions: Writing, Textuality, and Understanding in Literary History'', Yale University Press, 1982. * ''Heidegger's Estrangements: Language, Truth, and Poetry in the Later Writings'', Yale University Press, 1989. * ''Hermeneutics Ancient and Modern'', Yale University Press, 1992. * ''Maurice Blanchot: The Refusal of Philosophy'', The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. 2nd ed. 2005. * ''Tragic Thoughts at the End of Philosophy: Language, Literature, and Ethical Theory'', Northwestern University Press, 1999. * ''The Material of Poetry: Sketches for a Philosophical Poetics'', University of Georgia Press, 2005 * ''On the Anarchy of Poetry and Philosophy: A Guide for the Unruly'', Fordham University Press, 2006 * ''On Ceasing to be Human'', Stanford University Press, 2010 * ''What Are Poets For? An Anthropology of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics'', University of Iowa Press, 2012 * ''Interruptions: The Fragmentary Aesthetic in Modern Literature'', University of Alabama Press, 2018
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