James C. Risser


James Conrad Risser is an American philosopher and Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Seattle University where he was Pigott-McCone Endowed Chair of Humanities between 1991 and 1994. He is a former president of the North American Society of Philosophical Hermeneutics.
Risser is known for his works on Heideggerian philosophy and hermeneutics.

Books

Philosophy, Art and the Imagination: Essays on the Work of John Sallis..The Life of Understanding: A Contemporary Hermeneutics. American Continental Philosophy. Edited by Walter Brogan and James Risser. Heidegger Toward the Turn: The Work of the 1930s.