Faculty

Anthony is a social philosopher and professional writer who has been teaching since 2005. As a scholar, his work on the German playwright Bertolt Brecht is internationally recognized and has won several grants and awards. His published works include An Introduction to the Social and Political Philosophy of Bertolt Brecht: Revolution and Aesthetics; a coedited volume, Philosophizing Brecht: Critical Readings on Art, Consciousness, Social Theory and Performance; and The Politics of the Sacred in America: The Role of Civil Religion in Political Practice.He is also a poet, theater critic and writer of short stories, plays and a novel, Madness and Insanity.

PUBLICATIONS

Squiers, Anthony. "Brecht and Marxism." Bertolt Brecht in Context, edited by Stephen Brockmann, Cambridge University Press, 2021, 123-130.

Roessler, Norm. & Anthony Squiers, editors. Philosophizing Brecht: Critical Readings on Art, Consciousness, Social Theory and Performance. Amsterdam, Brill|Rodopi, 2019.

Squiers, Anthony. "Philosophizing with Brecht and Plato: On Socratic Courage." Philosophizing Brecht: Critical Readings on Art, Consciousness, Social Theory and Performance, Brill|Rodopi, 2019, 93-120.

Squiers, Anthony. "Philosophizing Brecht: An Introduction for Dark Times." Philosophizing Brecht: Critical Readings on Art, Consciousness, Social Theory and Performance, Brill|Rodopi, 2019, 1-6.

Squiers, Anthony. "Bertolt Brecht and the Art of Adaptation: Comments on the practical applicability for artists today." Communications from the International Brecht Society, 48, 2019.

Squiers, Anthony. The Politics of the Sacred in America: The role of civil religion in political practice. Cham Switzerland, Springer, 2018.

Squiers, Anthony. "A Critical Response to Heidi M. Silcox's 'What's Wrong with Alienation?'" Philosophy and Literature, 39, 1, 2015, 243-247. Reprinted in Barnett, David. Bertolt Brecht: Critical and Primary Sources, Vol 2. London, Bloomsbury, 2019.

Squiers, Anthony. "Zombie Hordes, the Market and Reification: a Brechtian Perspective." Communications from the International Brecht Society, 43-44, 2014-15.

Squiers, Anthony. An Introduction to the Social and Political Philosophy of Bertolt Brecht: Revolution and Aesthetics. Amsterdam, Brill|Rodopi, 2014.

Squiers, Anthony. "Narrative, Consciousness and Cognition in the Works of Bertolt Brecht." Consciousness, Literature and the Arts, 14, 1, 2013.

Squiers, Anthony. "Contradiction and Coriolanus: A Philosophical Analysis of Mao Tse Tung's Influence on Bertolt Brecht." Philosophy and Literature, 37, 1, 2013, 239-246.

Squiers, Anthony. "A Short Organum on Ideology: Brecht on the Bourgeois Weltanschauung." Communications from the International Brecht Society, 42, 2013.

Squiers, Anthony. "Visibility, Divisibility and the Language of Revolution: a Brechtian Perspective." Communications from the International Brecht Society, 41, 2012.

Squiers, Anthony. "Bertolt Brecht and the Ethics of Praxis." Consciousness, Literature and the Arts, 12, 1, 2011.

Squiers, Anthony. and Roessler, N. "Rethinking Brecht." Communications from the International Brecht Society, 40, 2011.

Squiers, Anthony. & Matt Arsenault. "American Civil Religious Rhetoric: Putting Assumptions to the Test." National Identities, Online, 20 Apr 2022, 1-18.

Degrees

Ph.D., Political Science, Western Michigan University
M.A., Political Science, Western Michigan University
B.A., Political Science, International Studies, Aquinas College