I am Professor Emeritus of Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley. When I joined the Department of Rhetoric in 1988 it was still something of an intellectual wildlife preserve that sheltered scholars in many fields including literature, film, intellectual history, law, politics, and sociology as well as philosophy. Thanks partly to that I’ve worked on a variety of topics over the years, including political and moral philosophy, philosophy of art, hermeneutics, and American politics and culture.