Drew M. Dalton

Drew M. Dalton is a Professor of English at Indiana University. Prior to that, he was a Professor of Philosophy at Dominican University in River Forest, IL and an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Florida Southern College. He received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Leuven in conjunction with the Husserl Archives and the Center for Social and Political Philosophy. His first book, “Longing for the Other: Levinas and Metaphysical Desire,” (Duquesne University Press, 2009) explored the ethical significance of desire through the work of the 20th century French philosopher Emmanuel Levinas. His next book, “The Ethics of Resistance: Tyranny of the Absolute” (Bloomsbury, 2018/2020), continued this reflection by inquiring into the role the concept of the absolute plays in ethical decision making. In 2023, Dalton published “The Matter of Evil: From Speculative Realism to Ethical Pessimism,” (Northwestern University Press, 2023) which extended these meditations on ethical absolutes into the realm of metaphysics through an analysis of the implications of entropic decay on moral evaluation.