Daniela Vallega-Neu

Daniela Vallega-Neu is a Professor of Philosophy and Director of Graduate Studies (DGS) for Admissions at the University of Oregon, affiliated with the College of Arts and Sciences. Her work bridges

• 19th and 20th Century European Thought
• Phenomenology
• Hermeneutics
• Deconstruction
• Ontology of the body

with a focus on thinkers like Nietzsche, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Derrida.

She earned her PhD in 1995 at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany, with a dissertation on Heidegger and Derrida’s concepts of grounding and groundlessness. Her research expanded into

• Embodied time
• Heidegger’s Contributions to Philosophy
• Rhythm as ontological structure

and the critical analysis of Heidegger’s Black Notebooks (1931-1941).

Daniela has authored or co-authored

• Heidegger’s Contributions to Philosophy: An Introduction (translated into Chinese)
• Heidegger's Poietic Writings: From Contributions to Philosophy to The Event (2018)
• The Bodily Dimension in Thinking (2005)

and co-translated Heidegger’s Contributions to Philosophy (Of the Event) (2011) and John Sallis’ Einbildungskraft (2010).

Her publications span 2025 to 2015, covering

• Heidegger’s ontological shifts
• Bodily dispositions in phenomenology
• Time-space articulation
• Derrida’s deconstruction
• Heidegger’s political writings
• Philosophical affect

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