Miles Groth

Dr. Miles Groth (born 1946) is a Professor Emeritus in Psychology at Wagner College and men's rights activist who has also written on philosophy.

Background

Groth has described himself as an existential psychoanalyst. [1] Groth is notable for his view that “there is now a second sexism and it is anti-male." [2]. Educated at Franklin and Marshall College, Duquesne University and Fordham University, he has taught psychology and philosophy at St. Vincent College (Latrobe, Pennsylvania) and Wagner College (Staten Island, New York), where he is Professor Emeritus (2019).

Authorship

Groth is the author of several chapters in books on psychotherapy, and numerous articles and book reviews in psychology and philosophy journals. He is the author of After Psychotherapy (2017; 2nd ed. 2018) and Pericopes (a privately printed collection of poems).

Groth has also produced three books about Martin Heidegger and a related biography of Medard Boss. Groth believes that all of the many, existing English translations of Heidegger are inadequate and incomprehensible, while he claims that in contrast, Heidegger's works are "quite clear and concise." Referring to publishers, Groth complained (2004) that "no one will touch" his own, superior personal translations (of two Heidegger essays) "since I am not part of the inner circle of Heideggerians."[3]

His Heidegger books are titled Preparatory Thinking in Heidegger's Teaching (1987), The Voice that Thinks: Heidegger Studies (1997; rev and expanded ed. 2016)[4] Translating Heidegger (2004; 2nd ed. 2017),[5] and the related Medard Boss and the Promise of Therapy (2020).[6]

Editorship

As founding editor of Thymos: Journal of Boyhood Studies and general editor of the International Journal of Men's Health, he has advanced the interdisciplinary area known as male studies. He has lectured on the topic of boys' and men's well-being in Australia and Canada, and Germany as well as the United States. He is founding editor of New Male Studies: An International Journal.

Activism

In 2013 Miles Groth gave a lecture at a "Men's Rights" conference at the University of Toronto titled "Caring About University Men - Why We Need Campus Men’s Centres in a Time of Crisis". There were mixed reactions to this. A "Men and Boys in Crisis" rally held the following day at 11am in Queen's Park by men's rights activists was disrupted by Bash Back! protesters from University of Toronto's OPIRG group. They had prepared via a workshop held the previous day."[7] He is co-editor of Engaging College Men: Discovering What Works and Why (2010; 2nd rev. ed, 2019).

References
  1. https://www.beyng.com/interviews/MilesGrothInterview.html
  2. https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2013/12/18/men%E2%80%99s-rights-activists-battle-%E2%80%98misandry%E2%80%99-college-campuses
  3. https://www.beyng.com/interviews/MilesGrothInterview.html
  4. Francis F Seeburger, review of The Voice that Thinks: Heidegger Studies (1997) in The Review of Metaphysics, Sept. 1999, vol. 53, no. 1, pp. 165-167.
  5. WorldCat Miles Groth publication list at WorldCat. Accessed 28 Sept. 2012.
  6. https://books.google.com/books/about/Medard_Boss_and_the_Promise_of_Therapy.html?id=Soo1ywEACAAJ
  7. Espinas, Jerico (30 September 2013). "Men's rights activists call for creation of "Men's Centre"". The Varsity. Retrieved 7 November 2013.
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