Background
Marshall, Donald Glenn was born on September 9, 1943 in Long Beach, California, United States. Son of Albert Louis and Margaret Corinne Marshall.
(How do we stand in relation to everything that comes down...)
How do we stand in relation to everything that comes down to us from the past? Is the very idea of tradition still useful in the wake of historical ruptures, such as the Holocaust, changes in the canon, and the end of colonialism? The concept of tradition has gained renewed importance in recent cultural studies. Suspicion of tradition as culturally narrow and oppressive is a persistent theme of modernity and has increased lately with the resurgence of religious traditionalism around the globe. At the same time, various groups demanding recognition for their distinctive cultural identity have reclaimed their traditions. Philosophers from Josiah Royce and Hans-Georg Gadamer to Alasdair MacIntyre have explored the relations between tradition and themes such as freedom, community, self-assertion, originality, and the shared values and interpretations that constitute everyday life. The essays in this volume offer varying, even disparate analyses of religious, literary, and cultural traditions and both responses and resistance to them in a variety of philosophers, novelists, and theologians. They examine works by Gadamer, Royce, MacIntyre, Plato, Jacques Derrida, Charlotte Bronte, Søren Kierkegaard, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Edith Wharton, Chinua Achebe, John Fowles, Heinrich Böll, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Cotton Mather, Thomas Kuhn, Mikhail Bakhtin, Donald Davidson, Antebellum African-American women preachers, and Christian and Jewish thinkers in the wake of the Holocaust.
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English language and literature educator
Marshall, Donald Glenn was born on September 9, 1943 in Long Beach, California, United States. Son of Albert Louis and Margaret Corinne Marshall.
AB summa cum laude, Harvard University, 1965; Master of Philosophy, Yale University, 1969; Doctor of Philosophy, Yale University, 1971.
Assistant professor English University of California at Los Angeles, 1969-1975. From associate professor to professor English University Iowa, Iowa City, 1975-1990. Honors director University Iowa College Liberal Arts, 1981-1985.
Professor English department University Illinois, Chicago, 1990—2003, head department, 1990—2000. Professor Great Books Pepperdine University, Malibu, California, since 2003.
(How do we stand in relation to everything that comes down...)
Member of Modern Language Association, Illinois Humanities Council (board directors 1994—2000, Chicago Humanities Festival board director 1997—2003), The Poetry Foundation (trustee 1996—2011, president 1998—2000, 2009-2011), Conference Christianity and Literature (board directors 2000-2003).
Married Kathleen Bonann, June 21, 1975. Children: Stephanie Deborah, Zachary Louis.