Keith Ansell Pearson - Nietzsche and Political Thought

Nietzsche and Political Thought

Bloomsbury Studies in Continental Philosophy

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Nietzsche and Political Thought

Edited by Keith Ansell-Pearson

Contents

Keith Ansell-Pearson

Paul Patton

Rosalyn Diprose

Peter R. Sedgwick

Robert Guay

David Owen

Herman W. Siemens

Alan D. Schrift

Gary Shapiro

Nandita Biswas Mellamphy

Michael Ure

Vanessa Lemm

Daniel Conway

Bruno Bosteels

Keith Ansell-Pearson holds a personal chair in Philosophy at the University of Warwick. In 2013/14 he will be a visiting fellow in the Humanities at Rice University. He is the author and editor of several books on Nietzsche, including Nietzsche contra Rousseau , The Nietzsche Reader and A Companion to Nietzsche . He is currently completing a book with Rebecca Bamford on Nietzsches text Dawn.

Nandita Biswas Mellamphy is associate professor of Political Theory at Western University, and former Associate Director (201112) of the Center for the Study of Theory and Criticism (Western). She is the author of The Three Stigmata of Friedrich Nietzsche: Political Physiology in the Age of Nihilism (Palgrave MacMillan, 2011), as well as several other essays on Nietzsches and Nietzschean political thought. Her topics of study include post-humanism, digital media culture, continental philosophy (especially the work of Friedrich Nietzsche and the post-Nietzscheans) and the political dimensions of contemporary science-fiction and current-day neuroscience. In addition she is completing a series of articles devoted to the theorist Franois Laruelles interpretation of Nietzsches political thought.

Bruno Bosteels is professor of Romance Studies and Comparative Literature at Cornell University. He is the author, among others, of Badiou and Politics (Duke University Press, 2011), The Actuality of Communism (Verso, 2011) and Marx and Freud in Latin America (Verso, 2012). Between 2005 and 2011 he served as the general editor of the journal diacritics . He is also the translator of numerous books by Alain Badiou, including Theory of the Subject (Continuum, 2009), Wittgensteins Antiphilosophy (Verso, 2011), Philosophy for Militants (Verso, 2012), and The Adventure of French Philosophy (Verso, 2012).

Daniel Conway is professor of Philosophy and Humanities at Texas A&M University. He is the author of Nietzsches Dangerous Game (Cambridge UP, 1997), Nietzsche and the Political (Routledge, 1997), and Readers Guide to Nietzsches On the Genealogy of Morals (Continuum, 2008). He is the editor of the four-volume series Nietzsche: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers (Routledge, 1998) and co-editor of Nietzsche und die antike Philosophie (Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 1992), Nietzsche, Philosophy, and the Arts (Cambridge UP, 1998), and The History of Continental Philosophy, Volume II (U Chicago, 2010). He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Friedrich Nietzsche Society and a former Editor of the Journal of Nietzsche Studies .

Rosalyn Diprose is professor of Philosophy (Emeritus) at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. She is author of numerous articles and book chapters on Nietzsches philosophy, including in relation to other thinkers such as Hannah Arendt. Recent books include Corporeal Generosity: On Giving with Nietzsche, Merleau-Ponty, and Levinas (SUNY Press, 2002) and the co-edited anthology Merleau-Ponty: Key Concepts (Continuum, 2008). Her ongoing research draws on existential phenomenology and biopolitical analysis to explore themes such as the politics of dwelling, reconstruction and natality.

Robert Guay is associate professor of Philosophy at Binghamton University. His work has appeared most recently in the Journal of Nietzsche Studies and The Edinburgh Critical History of Philosophy , and the Oxford Handbook to Nietzsche . He is currently completing a book on Nietzsches accounts of the conditions for normative authority.

Vanessa Lemm received her PhD in Philosophy from the New School for Social Research (2002). She is professor in Philosophy at the School of Humanities and Languages of the University of New South Wales. She is the author of Nietzsches Animal Philosophy: Culture, Politics and the Animality of the Human Being (New York: Fordham University Press, 2009), Nietzsche y el pensamiento politico contemporneo (Santiago: Fondo de cultura econmica, 2013), and several articles on contemporary political theory. She has also edited volumes on Hegel and Foucault.

David Owen is professor of Social and Political Philosophy at the University of Southampton. He has also held visiting positions in Frankfurt and Madrid. He has published nine books, most recently, Nietzsches Genealogy of Morality (Acumen, 2007) and published numerous journal articles. Among other things, he is currently working on Nietzsches relationship to realism, agonism and perfectionism.

Paul Patton is Scientia Professor of Philosophy at The University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. He is the author of Deleuze and the Political (Routledge, 2000) and Deleuzian Concepts: Philosophy, Colonization, Politics (Stanford, 2010). He is the editor of Nietzsche, Feminism and Political Theory (Routledge, 1993) and Deleuze: A Critical Reader (Blackwell, 1996). He is co-editor (with Duncan Ivison and Will Sanders) of Political Theory and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (Cambridge, 2000), (with John Protevi) of Between Deleuze and Derrida (Continuum, 2003) and (with Simone Bignall) Deleuze and the Postcolonial (Edinburgh, 2010). His current research deals with political normativity in French poststructuralist philosophy (Deleuze, Derrida and Foucault) and in contemporary left-liberal political philosophy, especially Rawls.