Barry Casey

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Gender Male
Industry Education
Occupation professor
Location Silver Spring, MD, United States
Introduction I teach philosophy, ethics, religious studies, and communications at Trinity University in Washington, DC and Stevenson University in Stevenson, MD. I'm interested in American philosophy (James, Peirce, Whitehead), existentialism, sociology of religion, faculty development, the classics of literature and philosophy, teaching with film, Rilke, Rumi, U2, Springsteen, Sting, Peter Gabriel, Paul Simon—in short, the greats!
Favorite Movies Fisher King, Casablanca, Crash, Happy Feet, LOTR, The Last Waltz, The House of Sand and Fog, Smoke Signals, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Kagemusha, Wings of Desire.
Favorite Music U2, Peter Gabriel, Sting, Police, Lucinda Williams, Bob Dylan, Emmy Lou Harris, CSN & Y, Louis Armstrong, Mahler, Faure.
Favorite Books Tao Te Ching, Bible, anything by Terry Prachett, The Nature and Destiny of Man, War Made Easy, The Consolation of Philosophy, On Photography, Cryptonimicon, The Diamond Age, Virtual Light, Epictetus--The Manual, Marcus Aurelius' Meditations, The Varieties of Religious Experience, AdCult USA, Flow, The Writing Life, Collected Poems of Yeats, On Liberty and Utilitarianism