Clark Wade Butler

Born and Los Angeles in 1944, Clark Butler graduated from Hollywood High School as valedictorian in 1962. He studied classical Arabic and Old Testament at the American University of Cairo, Egypt, before start his BA at the University of Southern California (USC). He did the first year of the French License en philosophie under Jean Wahl among others.who reversed his view of Hegel, on whom he would specialize. He did his Phd at USC under John Hospers and Dallas Willard in ethics. He married a French national in 1971, with whom he moved to Strasbourg in 2015 on becoming Emeritus Professor of Philosophy by appointment of Purdue University West Lafayette. In 2019 he found Human Rights Consultancy, Inc, with offices and a new domicile in Mulhouse France. He become a Franco-American dual national in 1997. He has books with the Northwestern, Indiana, and Purdue university presses and Prometheus books. Articles on Hegel, human rights, ethics, metaphysics, and logic have appeared in many journals, most notably in English The Monist, The American Philosophical Quarterly, Metaphilosophy, Inquiry, and Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, and book chapters with publishers including Springer, Macmillan Palgrave, Purdue University Press, and G.K. Hall (now Gale). He was a Fulbright scholar at the German Hegel Archiv and Principal Investigator for a major NEH grant. He was visiting in teaching and research at the University of Strasbourg philosophy department, the Council of Europe, Science Po--Strasbourg, Trent Polytechnic (UK), the University of Nottingham, and the University of the Zaghreb.