Robert W. Luyster
Director, UConn Council on Peace Education, Peace Studies Major
Professor of Philosophy
(For further information click on:
http://vm.uconn.edu/~luyster/peace.html).
Department of Philosophy, U-2054
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT 06269-2054
U.S.A.
Office: 333 Manchester Hall
Office phone/voice mail: 860-486-4104
Philosophy dept. phone: 860-486-4416
Fax: 860-486-0387
Email:
robert.luyster@uconn.edu
Education:
B.A. 1958 Dartmouth College
M.A. 1961 University of Chicago
Ph.D. 1964 University of Chicago
Research Interests:
Religious Myth and Symbol; religious philosophy; peace and social justice.
PUBLICATIONS:
Journal Articles
Review: Clifton Fadiman translation of Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy, in Essays in Philosophy, V. 1 (Jan., 2004).
"Nietzsche/Dionysus: Ecstasy, Heroism and the Monstrous," Journal of Nietzsche Studies, XXI (Spring, 2001), pp. 1-26.
"The Meaning of
Peace in the Bhagavad Gita and the New Testament," The International
Journal of Humanities and Peace, 15 (1999), pp. 39-41.
"The
Wife's Lament' in the Context of Scandinavian Myth and Ritual,"
"Dionysos: The Masks of Madness," Parabola, XX, 4 (November, 1995), pp. 43-8.
Phenomenology of Hamlet and the Evolution of Consciousness," The Iliff Review 41 (1984), pp. 5-19.
"Foundation for a Scientific Phenomenology of Religion," Journal of Religious Studies, 10 (1983), pp. 32-44.
"Warrior and Farmer: Fundamental Religious Paradigms," Arc, IX (1982), pp. 63-76.
"Cosmogonic Symbolism in the Old Testament," Zeitschrift fur die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft, 93 (1981), pp. 1-10.
"King Ego and the Double-sex Dancer," Journal of Religion and Health, 19 (1980), pp. 121-29.
"Platonism, Despair and Harry Callahan," British Journal of Photography, 126 (1979), pp. 463-66.
"Myth and History in the Book of Exodus," Religion, 8 (1978), pp. 155-70.
"Myth, Mystery and Mysticism: The Dance of Dionysos and Shiva," Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 45 (1977), pp. 901-32.
"The Concept of the Self in the Upanisads: Its Origin and Symbols," Philosophy East and West, 20 (1970), pp. 51-61.
"The Study of Myth: Two Approaches," Journal of Bible and Religion, 34 (1966), pp. 235-43.
"Symbolic Elements in the Cult of Athena," History of Religions, 5 (1965), pp. 133-63. "Dionysos: The Masks of Madness," Parabola, XX, 4 (November, 1995), > pp. 43-8.
Books
Robert Luyster, Hamlet and Man's Being: The Phenomenology of Nausea. New York: University Press of America, 1984.
Robert Luyster and Mary Pat Fisher, Living Religions. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1991.