Mark Wrathall

{{short description|American philosopher}} {{Infobox philosopher | image = Mark Wrathall.jpg | caption = Mark Wrathall, photo by Tao Ruspoli | name = Mark Wrathall | birth_name = Mark Adam Wrathall | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1965|2|1}} | birth_place = [[Provo, Utah]], U.S. | education = [[University of California at Berkeley]] (PhD, 1996) | thesis_title = Unconcealment and Truth | thesis_url = https://www.proquest.com/docview/304321914 | thesis_year = 1996 | school_tradition = [[Continental Philosophy]] | doctoral_advisor = [[Hubert Dreyfus]] | academic_advisors = [[Hans Sluga]], {{ill|Giovanni R. F. Ferrari|de}} | region = [[Western philosophy]] | era = [[Contemporary philosophy]] | institutions = [[University of Oxford]] | website = {{URL|https://www.markwrathall.org/}} }}

'''Mark Adam Wrathall''' (born February 1, 1965<ref>{{cite web |url=https://ldsl.lib.byu.edu/people/mark-a-wrathall/ |title=Mark A. Wrathall |website=BYU Library |access-date=22 January 2025}} </ref>) is an American [[philosopher]] he is Professor of Philosophy at the [[University of Oxford]] and a fellow and tutor at [[Corpus Christi College, Oxford]]. He is considered a leading interpreter of the philosophy of [[Martin Heidegger]]. Wrathall is featured in [[Tao Ruspoli]]'s films ''[[Being in the World]]'' and ''[[Monogamish (film)|Monogamish]].''

==Early life, education and career== Mark (Adam) Wrathall was born in [[Provo, Utah]] in 1965, and was raised in the towns of [[Greece (town), New York|Greece]] and [[Pittsford (town), New York|Pittsford]] in upstate New York. He spent his freshman year of high school at [[The Ridings High School]] in Winterbourne, England, and graduated from [[Pittsford Mendon High School]] in 1983. He received a BA in philosophy at [[Brigham Young University]] in 1988. In 1991, he received both a [[Juris Doctor]] from [[Harvard Law School|Harvard]] and an MA in philosophy from [[Boston College]]. After clerking for [[Cecil F. Poole]] at the [[U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit]], he pursued a Ph.D. in philosophy from the [[University of California, Berkeley|University of California at Berkeley]], where he was a student of the Heidegger scholar [[Hubert Dreyfus]], graduating in 1996, with a disseration on “Unconcealment and Truth”.

From 1994 to 1996 he was a teaching fellow at [[Stanford Law School]]. Afterwards, he taught at Brigham Young University from 1996 to 2006 (first in the political science department, then from 1999 in the philosophy department); he then joined the University of California, Riverside, where he served as Associate Professor from 2007 to 2009 and Professor of Philosophy from 2009 to 2017. Since 2017, he has been a Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at [[Corpus Christi College, Oxford|Corpus Christi College]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Professor Mark Wrathall |url=https://www.ccc.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-mark-wrathall |access-date=2025-09-30 |website=Corpus Christi College Oxford}}</ref>

==Philosophical work== Wrathall's main interests include [[Phenomenology (philosophy)|phenomenology]], [[existentialism]], the phenomenology of [[religion]], and the philosophy of law, but he is best known for his work on [[Martin Heidegger]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Mark Wrathall |url=https://granta.com/contributor/mark-wrathall/ |access-date=2025-09-30 |website=Granta |language=en-US}}</ref>

Wrathall has also contributed to the philosophy of popular culture, editing a book on the philosophical themes found in the music of [[U2]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,600118407,00.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130121105537/http://www.deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,600118407,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 21, 2013|title=U2 lyrics a big hit in philosophy class at Y.|publisher=Desert News|date=March 14, 2005|access-date=November 21, 2015}}</ref> and publishing essays on film and philosophy. Wrathall's work on popular culture intersects with his interests in religion. He draws on Heidegger, [[Søren Kierkegaard|Kierkegaard]], and [[Friedrich Nietzsche|Nietzsche]] to describe how secularism and technology undermine belief in objective eternal meanings and values. But Wrathall thinks [[nihilism]] also "opens up access to richer and more relevant ways for us to understand creation and for us to encounter the divine and the sacred."<ref>{{Citation |last=Wrathall |first=Mark A. |title=Introduction: metaphysics and onto-theology |date=2003 |work=Religion after Metaphysics |pages=1–6 |editor-last=Wrathall |editor-first=Mark A. |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/religion-after-metaphysics/introduction-metaphysics-and-ontotheology/80CC14838D31F4007706C4D037E0269C |access-date=2025-09-30 |place=Cambridge |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-82498-9}}</ref>

According to a reviewer, "Wrathall's writing is clear and comprehensive, ranging across virtually all of Heidegger's collected works.... Wrathall's overall interpretation of Heidegger's work is crystal clear, compelling, and relevant."<ref>{{cite journal |last=Käufer |first=Stephan |author-link=Stephan A. Kaufer |date=2 July 2011 |title=Heidegger and Unconcealment |url=http://ndpr.nd.edu/news/24750-heidegger-and-unconcealment-truth-language-and-history/ |journal=Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews |access-date=28 February 2012}}</ref>

==Personal life== Wrathall is a member of [[The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints]]. He has contributed to an LDS journal, and in 2023 presented the Annual Latter-day Saint Lecture at [[McGill University]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-10-18 |title=Oxford Professor Mark Wrathall Presents the Annual Latter-day Saint Lecture at McGill University |url=http://news-ca.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/oxford-professor-mark-wrathall-presents-the-annual-latter-day-saint-lecture-at-mcgill-university?imageView=5-Garth-Green-McGill-Lecture-2023.jpg |access-date=2025-09-30 |website=The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Wrathall |first=Mark |title=Tasting the Light |url=https://www.wayfaremagazine.org/p/tasting-the-light |access-date=2025-09-30 |website=Wayfare Magazine |language=en}}</ref>

==Books== *2000 [https://web.archive.org/web/20110604051427/http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=3443 ''Heidegger, Coping and Cognitive Science''] (MIT Press) - editor with [[Jeff Malpas]] *2000 [https://web.archive.org/web/20110604051527/http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=3431 ''Heidegger, Authenticity and Modernity''] (MIT Press) - editor with Jeff Malpas *2000 [http://www.cambridge.org/us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521781817 ''Appropriating Heidegger''] (Cambridge University Press) - editor with [[James Faulconer|James E. Faulconer]] *2002 ''Heidegger Reexamined'' (Routledge) - editor with [[Hubert Dreyfus]] *2003 [http://www.cambridge.org/us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521531962 ''Religion After Metaphysics''] (Cambridge University Press) - editor *2005 [http://www.cambridge.org/us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521531962 ''How to Read Heidegger''] (Granta; W. W. Norton) *2005 ''A Companion to Heidegger'' - editor with Hubert Dreyfus *2006 [https://web.archive.org/web/20090918230838/http://www.opencourtbooks.com/books_n/u2.htm ''U2 and Philosophy''] (Open Court) - editor *2006 ''A Companion to Phenomenology and Existentialism'' - editor with Hubert Dreyfus *2008 [https://web.archive.org/web/20090127062210/http://www.madras.com.br/Default.aspx?cd_produto=1210 ''U2 ea Filosofia''] (Madras) - editor *2009 [http://www.wiley-vch.de/publish/en/books/ISBN978-3-527-50438-1/?sID=o506rhulr55qnspeq7s6milig4 ''Die Philosophie bei U2''] (Wiley-VCH) - editor *2010 ''Heidegger and Unconcealment: Truth, Language, History'' (Cambridge University Press) *2013 [https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/philosophy/twentieth-century-philosophy/cambridge-companion-heideggers-being-and-time ''The Cambridge Companion to Heidegger's Being and Time''] (Cambridge University Press) - editor *2020 ''Alma 30 - 63: a brief theological introduction'' (Maxwell Institute) *2020 ''[https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/cambridge-heidegger-lexicon/AADB99E1404A1EF2961658F9C6242205 The Cambridge Heidegger Lexicon]'' (Cambridge University Press) - editor

==References==  {{Reflist}}

==External links== * Personal [http://www.markwrathall.org Homepage] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20100129024913/http://www.beingintheworldmovie.com/Being_in_the_World/Mark_Wrathall.html Homepage] at ''Being in the World'' Movie Website * [https://web.archive.org/web/20100622055435/http://www.philosophy.ucr.edu/people/faculty/wrathall/index.html Homepage] at UCR Philosophy Department Website

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