Dr. Grobmeier has been teaching for the Philosophy Department and Regis College since 2014. His research interests include the History of Philosophy, 20th century and contemporary European political thought, German and French phenomenology, post-Holocaust philosophy and theology, and the critical intersection between the Earth Systems Sciences and the Environmental Humanities.
Currently, Dr. Grobmeier is working on a book-length study on the question of community, political pluralism, and the problem of political authority as it figures in several 20th century and contemporary European philosophers and political theorists: Martin Heidegger, Hannah Arendt, Emmanuel Levinas, Georges Bataille, Maurice Blanchot, and Jean-Luc Nancy. The book situates these thinkers against the historical backdrop of the socio-political circumstances under which they were living and writing (the rise of fascism and authoritarianism, the crises of liberalism and liberal democracy, the aftermath of the Second World War, and the collapse of Soviet communism in the late 1980s and early 1990s) in order to argue that any conception of authority fashioned according to the political-theological ideal of “sovereignty” is inherently hostile to the possibility of political pluralism.
