Rodney H. Swearengin

Rodney H. Swearengin earned his master’s degree in philosophy from the Claremont Graduate University, studying under D. Z. Phillips and specializing in a Wittgensteinian approach to the philosophy of religion. Since the 1990s, Rodney has held various positions as an adjunct professor of philosophy in southern California, currently teaching at Cerritos College. Over the decades he has also worked as a marketing executive, and completed substantial graduate work in mathematics at Cal. State Long Beach and UC Santa Cruz. His current research is in “political ecology” — a comprehensive analysis of human ecology, which applies mathematical analysis and classic political economy to the lived experience of the longue durée cataclysm that is this moment of human existence. Within this framework, studies of propaganda, ideology, cross-cultural dialogue, oppression/liberation, and the legitimacy of violence have become particularly relevant.