Jerold J . Abrams, PhD

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Jerold J . Abrams, PhD

Professor

Academic Appointments

  • Department: Philosophy
  • Position: Professor

Articles

  • “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.” In 101 Sci-Fi Movies You Must See Before You Die. Ed. Steven Schneider. New York: Penguin,, Quintessence, 2009
  • “Aesthetics and Ethics: Santayana, Nietzsche, and Shusterman.”, The Modern Schoolman: A Quarterly Journal of Philosophy, 233-266, 2004
  • “Philosophy After the Mirror of Nature: Rorty, Dewey, and Peirce on Pragmatism and Metaphor.”, Metaphor and Symbol, 17:3, 227-42, 2002

Awards and Honors

  • Teacher of the Week, Delta Zeta, 2008
  • Teacher of the Month, Pi Kappa Alpha, 2005
  • The 2004 Annual Order of Omega Teaching Award, The Greek Community of Creighton University, 2004

 

Teaching Interests

  • American Philosophy

Department

Philosophy

Position

Professor

Books

  • Abrams Jerold J, 2001 as Philosophy: A Technological Odyssey - 33 [Book Chapter] 2024
  • Contemporary Cowboys
    Collins Caroline, Kelly Gillian, Adkins Karen, Haney Lilian, Peek Wendy Chapman, Abrams Jerold J, Guerra Enzo, Hamilton Cindy S, Jameson Misty L, Barkman Adam, The Philosophy of Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian [Book Chapter] 2023
  • Abrams Jerold J, Barkman Adam, Adkins Karen, Collins Caroline, Guerra Enzo, Hamilton Cindy S, Haney Lilian, McMahon Jennifer L, Jameson Misty L, Kelly Gillian, Contemporary Cowboys 2023
  • Shusterman's Somaesthetics
    J. Abrams Jerold, Abbreviated Bibliography and Filmography of Richard Shusterman [Book Chapter] 2022
  • Shusterman's Somaesthetics
    J. Abrams Jerold, Part 1 Pragmatism and Somaesthetics [Book Chapter] 2022
  • Shusterman's Somaesthetics
    J. Abrams Jerold, Notes on Contributors [Book Chapter] 2022
  • Shusterman's Somaesthetics
    J. Abrams Jerold, Series Information [Book Chapter] 2022
  • , Shusterman's somaesthetics 2022
  • Shusterman's Somaesthetics
    J. Abrams Jerold, Name Index [Book Chapter] 2022
  • Shusterman's Somaesthetics
    J. Abrams Jerold, Part 3 Shusterman in His Own Words [Book Chapter] 2022
  • Shusterman's Somaesthetics
    J. Abrams Jerold, Part 2 Performative Philosophy and the Man in Gold [Book Chapter] 2022
  • The Bloomsbury Companion to Stanley Kubrick
    Abrams Jerold, Kubrick and Philosophy [Book Chapter] 2021
  • The Supervillain Reader
    Abrams Jerold J., Shakespeare's Supervillain: Coriolanus [Book Chapter] 2020
  • The Ultimate Star Trek and Philosophy
    Abrams Jerold J, Aristotle and James T. Kirk: The Problem of Greatness [Book Chapter] 2016
  • Abrams J, Murphy Ruth, The J. Abrams book 2016
  • Decker Kevin S, Abrams Jerold J, Eberl Jason T, Theœ ultimate Star Trek and philosophy 2016
  • The Philosophy of TV Noir
    Abrams Jerold J., Cooke Elizabeth F., Detection and the Logic of Abduction in The X-Files [Book Chapter] 2015
  • Małecki Wojciech, Abrams Jerold J, Practicing pragmatist aesthetics 2014
  • Central European Value Studies
    Abrams Jerold J., Pragmatist Aesthetics and Cinematic Experience: Emerson, Dewey, and Shusterman [Book Chapter] 2014
  • Koczanowicz Dorota, Abrams Jerold J, Shusternam's pragmatism 2012
  • The Philosophy of Spike Lee
    Abrams Jerold J., Transcendence and Sublimity in Spike Lee's Signature Shot [Book Chapter] 2011
  • The Philosophy of the Coen Brothers
    Abrams Jerold J., 'A HOMESPUN MURDER STORY' Film Noir and the Problem of Modernity in Fargo [Book Chapter] 2009
  • The Philosophy of Science Fiction Film
    Abrams Jerold J., THE DIALECTIC OF ENLIGHTENMENT IN METROPOLIS [Book Chapter] 2008
  • Sanders Steven, Abrams Jerold J, Skoble Aeon J, The philosophy of TV noir 2008
  • Battlestar Galactica and Philosophy
    Abrams Jerold J, Embracing the “Children of Humanity”: How to Prevent the Next Cylon War [Book Chapter] 2007
  • , Filosofía de Stanley Kubrick 2007
  • The Philosophy of Neo-Noir
    Abrams Jerold J., Space, Time, and Subjectivity in Neo-Noir Cinema [Book Chapter] 2007
  • Abrams Jerold J., The philosophy of Stanley Kubrick 2007
  • The Philosophy of Stanley Kubrick
    Abrams Jerold J., THE LOGIC OF LOLITA Kubrick, Nabokov, and Poe [Book Chapter] 2007
  • The Philosophy of Martin Scorsese
    Abrams Jerold J., The Cinema of Madness Friedrich Nietzsche and the Films of Martin Scorsese [Book Chapter] 2007
  • Abrams J, History of European drama and theatre 2006
  • Full: In (pp. 69-88) Conard
    Abrams Jerold J., From Sherlock Holmes to the Hard-Boiled Detective in Film Noir [Book Chapter] 2006
  • Full: In (pp. 157-71) Held
    Abrams Jerold J, The epistemology of James Bond: the logic of abduction [Book Chapter] 2006
  • Full: In (pp. 107-19) Decker
    Abrams Jerold J, A technological galaxy: Heidegger and the philosophy of technology in Star Wars [Book Chapter] 2005
  • Woody Allen and Philosophy: You Mean My Whole Fallacy Is Wrong?
    Abrams Jerold, Art and Voyeurism in the Films of Woody Allen [Book Chapter] 2004
  • Abrams J, Samuel Beckett's theatre: Life journeys 2001
  • , William Irwin (editor). Seinfeld and Philosophy: A Book about Everything and Nothing 2001
  • Abrams J, AN AMERICAN JEWISH-COMMUNITY, 50 YEARS, 1889-1939 - THE SOCIOLOGY OF THE JEWISH-COMMUNITY IN STAMFORD, CONNECTICUT - KOENIG,S 1993
  • Abrams J, LEST WE FORGET - REMEMBRANCES OF CHEYENNE JEWS - ELLIOT,M, STILL,M 1993
  • Abrams J, FUTURE TENSE - A NEW ART FOR THE NINETIES - HEWISON,R 1990
  • Abrams J, LISTEN WHILE I TELL YOU, A STORY OF THE JEWS OF ST-JOHNS, NEWFOUNDLAND - KAHN,A 1988
  • Abrams J, THE JEWS OF OREGON, 1850-1950 - LOWENSTEIN,S 1988

Publications

  • Europski glasnik
    Abrams Jerold J, Dijalektika prosvjetiteljstva u Metropolisu, p. 619 - 636 2023
  • International communication of Chinese culture
    Abrams Jerold J., Ancient Chinese cave paintings as cinema: the volcanos and dragons of Mogao Cave 249
    8:2, p. 289 - 316 2021
  • Journal of comparative literature & aesthetics
    Abrams Jerold, Philosophy of Prehistoric Painting and Cinema: Werner Herzog's Cave of Forgotten Dreams
    42:1, p. 44 - 48 2019
  • FILOSOFSKII ZHURNAL
    , EMERSON AND THE RECONSTRUCTION OF PRAGMATISM
    12:2, p. 34 - 47 2019
  • Journal of Science Fiction and Philosophy
    Abrams Jerold J., Aesthetics in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
    1, p. 1 - 19 2018
  • Transactions of the Charles S Peirce Society
    Abrams Jerold J., Richard Rorty, Liberalism and Cosmopolitanism
    52:1, p. 118 - 122 2016
  • PAJ (Baltimore, Md.)
    Abrams J, Parker-Starbuck J, London calling, p. 38 - 44 2005
  • The Modern schoolman
    , Aesthetics and Ethics: Santayana, Nietzsche, and Shusterman
    81:4, p. 233 - 266 2004
  • Human Studies
    Abrams Jerold J., Pragmatism, artificial intelligence, and posthuman bioethics: Shusterman, Rorty, Foucault
    27:3, p. 241 - 258 2004
  • Transactions of the Charles S.Peirce Society
    Abrams Jerold J., Peirce, Kant, and Apel on Transcendental Semiotics: The Unity of Apperception and the Deduction of the Categories of Signs
    40:4, p. 627 - 677 2004
  • Abrams J, Performing processes: Creating live performance 2003
  • Film and philosophy
    , Cinema and the aesthetics of the dynamical sublime: Kant, Deleuze, Heidegger and the architecture of film
    7:7, p. 60 - 76 2003
  • Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society
    Abrams Jerold J, Solution to the problem of induction: Peirce, Apel, and Goodman on the Grue Paradox
    38:4, p. 543 - 558 2002
  • Metaphor and Symbol
    Abrams Jerold J., Philosophy after the mirror of nature: Rorty, Dewey, and Peirce on Pragmatism and metaphor
    17:3, p. 227 - 242 2002
  • Philosophy today (Celina)
    , Aesthetics of self-fashioning and cosmopolitanism: Foucault and rorty on the art of living
    46:2, p. 185 - 192 2002
  • Abrams J, No-thing is left to tell: Zen/chaos theory in the dramatic art of Samuel Beckett 2001
  • Theatre journal (Washington, D.C.)
    Abrams J, Werfel The 'Eternel Road'
    53:1, p. 148 - 151 2001
  • Theatre journal (Washington, D.C.)
    Abrams J, Poulton 'York Millennium Mystery Plays'
    53:1, p. 148 - 151 2001
  • Abrams J, A CENTURY AND A QUARTER OF SPIRITUAL LEADERSHIP - THE STORY OF THE CONGREGATION-OF-THE-SONS-OF-ISRAEL-AND-DAVID (TEMPLE-BETH-EL) - PROVIDENCE, RHODE-ISLAND - GOLDOWSKY,SJ 1993
  • Abrams J, DISNEY ART OF ANIMATION - FROM MICKEY-MOUSE TO 'BEAUTY AND THE BEAST' - THOMAS,B 1992
  • Abrams J, THE ART OF MICKEY-MOUSE - YOE,C, MORRAYOE,J 1992
  • New statesman & society
    Abrams J, SOUR-GRAPES
    4:144, p. 22 - 22 1991
  • New statesman & society
    Abrams J, ARCHITECTS IN THE NURSERY
    3:91, p. 42 - 43 1990
  • New statesman & society
    Abrams J, HULKS ON PARADE
    2:81, p. 34 - 36 1989
  • American Jewish history
    Abrams J, REMEMBERING THE MAINE, THE JEWISH ATTITUDE TOWARD THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR AS REFLECTED IN THE AMERICAN-ISRAELITE
    76:4, p. 439 - 455 1987

Awards

  • Teacher of the Week
    Delta Zeta
  • Teacher of the Month
    Pi Kappa Alpha
  • The 2004 Annual Order of Omega Teaching Award
    The Greek Community of Creighton University