Intellectual Autobiography: A Freudian Look at a Philosophical Life

Randall E. Auxier is a professor of philosophy and communication studies at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. He is the editor of the Library of Living Philosophers having overseen eight volumes in the series. He edited the journal The Personalist Forum 1997-2006, when he and John Shook transformed it into The Pluralist, and he remained Editor in Chief until 2012. He is Deputy Chief Editor of Eidos: A Journal for Philosophy of Culture. Dr. Auxier authored Time, Will and Purpose (2013), Metaphysical Graffiti (2017), Logic: From Images to Digits (2022) and As Deep as It Gets: Movies and Metaphysics (2022). He co-authored The Quantum of Explanation: Whitehead’s Radical Empiricism (2017). His edited and co-edited volumes include God, Process and Persons (2000), Critical Responses to Royce (2000), Bruce Springsteen and Philosophy (2008), The Wizard of Oz and Philosophy (2008), Tom Petty and Philosophy (2019), Rorty and Beyond (2020), and Queen and Philosophy (2023). He and John Shook edit the American Philosophical and Cultural Thought book series, State University of New York Press.