Michael Allen Gillespie is an American philosopher and Professor of Political Science and Philosophy at Duke University. His areas of interest are political philosophy, continental philosophy, history of philosophy, and the origins of modernity. He has published on the relationship between theology and philosophy, medieval theology, liberalism, and a number of philosophers such as Nietzsche, Hegel, Heidegger and Kant. In his later works, Gillespie has specialized on the relationship between religion and politics. His book "The Theological Origins of Modernity" and his article "The Antitrinitarian Origins of Liberalism" revealed the extent to which modern thought is indebted to Christianity, contributing to the breaking of the cliché that modernity is a decisive break from the Middle Ages. Works The Theological Origins of Modernity, University of Chicago Press, 2008. Socinianism and the Political Theology of Liberalism (a chapter in the Oxford Handbook of Political Theology. Ed. M. Kessler and S. Casey) Hegel, Heidegger and the Ground of History Nihilism before Nietzsche Nietzsche's New Seas: Explorations in Philosophy, Aesthetics, and Politics (ed) Ratifying the Constitution (ed.) Homo Politics, Homo Economicus (ed.) References Sources On Michael Allen Gillespie Michael Gillespie at Duke University Website Review of an article by Gillespie Living people 21st-century American philosophers 20th-century American philosophers Continental philosophers Daseinsanalysis Existentialists Philosophy academics Heidegger scholars Duke University faculty Philosophers of nihilism 1951 births Harvard University alumni University of Chicago alumni