{"id":31065,"date":"2021-09-01T10:17:55","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T14:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/?post_type=cu_people&#038;p=31065"},"modified":"2026-02-18T14:36:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T19:36:02","slug":"alum-robert-sibley","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/people\/alum-robert-sibley\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Sibley"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n                    \n             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/Sibley-Levac-Photo-Sept-2013-B-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A photo of Robert Sibley\" class=\"wp-image-28923\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"writer-and-independent-scholar\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Writer and Independent Scholar<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>PhD in Political Science, 2003<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An Adjunct Research Professor in the Political Science department, Robert concluded a 40-year career in journalism in 2017. While working on his doctorate in the 1990s, he joined the Ottawa Citizen editorial board to write editorials, columns and essays, earning more than a dozen journalism awards over the years. Since graduating, he\u2019s produced several books, including Northern Spirits: John Watson, George Grant, and Charles Taylor &#8211; Appropriations of Hegelian Political Thought (2008), The Way of the 88 Temples: Journeys on the Shikoku Pilgrimage (2013), and The Way of the Stars: Journeys on the Camino de Santiago (2012). More recently, he contributed two chapters for the book Hegel and Canada: Unity of Opposites? and co-edited and contributed to Sojourns in the Western Twilight (2016), a festschrift honouring long-time Carleton professor Tom Darby.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Robert is currently writing a philosophic pilgrimage \u2013 The Way of Mountains: Journeys in the Spirit of Nietzsche and Heidegger \u2013 for the University of Virginia Press. And he\u2019s preparing an academic paper after becoming obsessed with understanding how Kierkegaard and Heidegger use the concept of repetition as an hermeneutic device. He thinks Nietzsche\u2019s doctrine of eternal recurrence fits in there somehow if he can only figure out how.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"not-prose cu-quote cu-component-spacing\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cA good teacher,\u201d George Steiner said, \u201cis an alarm awakening us from a state of amnesia.\u201d I came to Carleton in a mood of disillusion after a couple of decades as a journalist. Studying philosophy with the department\u2019s teachers not only woke me from my amnesia but also rejuvenated my career.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Robert","cu_people_last_name":"Sibley","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[54,99],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-31065","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","hentry","cu_people_type-alumni","cu_people_type-phd"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"","cu_people_degree":"","cu_building":false,"cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"none","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/31065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/31065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31066,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/31065\/revisions\/31066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=31065"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=31065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}