Acharya Vinod - Nietzsche and Epicurus

Nietzsche and Epicurus

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Nietzsche and Epicurus

Nature, Health and Ethics

Edited by
Vinod Acharya and Ryan J. Johnson

Contents

First and foremost, we acknowledge the free spirit who set this project in motion: Keith Ansell-Pearson. Keith has been an inspiration for us personally, as he is probably the most original voice in Nietzsche studies today. Keith generated the momentum for this book, and we are honoured to bring to completion the book he started. We also express gratitude to all our contributors. Each of them worked with us through our often-tedious requests, and we hope that the final product is well worth their efforts. We are grateful to the anonymous reviewer for Bloomsbury Press for their helpful comments. Thanks also to Liza Thompson, Frankie Mace and Lucy Russell at Bloomsbury for trusting us as we assumed control of the volume, and for their help seeing it to publication. We thank Jonathan Shaw and Pierce Johnson, and Madison Aycock philosophy students at Elon University, for their tireless efforts formatting and indexing this text. Most of all, we thank our partners and families Saya and Summer Acharya, and Erin Rutherford. It is their daily love, support and tolerance that give us a why to live, which allows us to bear any and every how .

Parts of Jill Marsdens paper have been published as In Proximity to Epicurus: Nietzsches Discovery of the Past Within, The Agonist , X (II): 1124.

A version of Peter Groffs essay was published as Great Politics and the Unnoticed Life: Nietzsche and Epicurus on the Boundaries of Cultivation, The Agonist , X (II): 5974.

Vinod Acharya is Senior Instructor in the Philosophy Department at Seattle University, USA. He teaches and writes on Nietzsche, various topics in the history of philosophy, contemporary philosophy and the philosophy of science and technology. He is the author of Nietzsches Meta-Existentialism (De Gruyter, 2014).

Babette Babich is Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University in New York City. Among her books are The Hallelujah Effect (2016), Words in Blood, Like Flowers (2006), and the edited collection, Reading David Humes Of the Standard of Taste (2019).

Paul Bishop is William Jacks Chair of Modern Languages at the University of Glasgow. He is the author of German Political Thought and the Discourse of Platonism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), On the Blissful Islands with Nietzsche & Jung (Routledge 2017) and Ludwig Klages and the Philosophy of Life (Routledge 2017), and editor of A Companion to Friedrich Nietzsche, Life and Works (Camden House 2012).

Daniel Conway is Professor of Philosophy and Humanities and Affiliate Professor of Religious Studies, Film Studies and Law at Texas A&M University (USA).

Matthew James Dennis is a Marie Skodowska-Curie Research Fellow at TU Delft in the Netherlands. He works on how emerging technologies affect our practical lives, especially their potential for character development and personal transformation. He has previously published articles on Foucault, Deleuze, Nietzsche and Spinoza, and was the winner of the ASCPs Postgraduate Essay Prize in 2017.

Peter S. Groff is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Bucknell University. He has written on Nietzsche, Islamic philosophy and comparative questions across traditions. His most recent scholarship focuses on cultivating an intercultural dialogue of sorts between Nietzsche, select classical Islamic philosophers and certain Greek and Hellenistic sources regarding philosophy as a way of life.

Ryan J. Johnson is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Elon University in North Carolina. He is the author of The Deleuze-Lucretius Encounter (Edinburgh 2017), Deleuze, A Stoic (Edinburgh 2020), contributing co-editor of The Movement of Nothingness (Davies Group 2012) and of Contemporary Encounters with Ancient Metaphysics (Edinburgh 2017).

Cline Leboeuf is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Florida International University. Her research on embodiment lies at the intersection of the critical philosophy of race, feminist philosophy and phenomenology.

Jill Marsden is Senior Lecturer in the School of the Arts at the University of Bolton, United Kingdom. She is the author of After Nietzsche: Notes Towards a Philosophy of Ecstasy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2002) and an assortment of essays on Nietzsche. She is currently working on the concept of literary thinking.

Michael J. McNeal is a native of Colorado and an independent scholar who teaches as an adjunct instructor at various universities on its Front Range. He publishes on Nietzsches thought, international affairs and education. His current research examines nihilism, reactionary populism and the exacerbation of both by environmental degradation and globalization.

Thomas Ryan completed a PhD in Philosophy at Monash University and the University of Warwick in 2018 with a thesis titled The Affirmation of Eros: Passion and Eternity in Friedrich Nietzsches The Gay Science .

Carlotta Santini (1984) is tenured researcher ( Charg de recherche ) at the CNRS and at the cole Normale Suprieure in Paris. She is editor of the philological Nachlass of Friedrich Nietzsche in Italy (Adelphi) and France ( Les Belles Lettres ). Her field of research is nineteenth-century German culture and Reception of Antiquity.

Federico Testa is Early Career Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study at the University of Warwick, where he currently teaches in the departments of philosophy and sociology. His main interests are post-Kantian philosophy, ethics and political and social theory. His research also explores the modern and contemporary receptions of ancient philosophy. He has published pieces on Foucault, Nietzsche, Canguilhem, Guyau, Hadot and others.

Michael Ure is Senior Lecturer in the School of Social Sciences, Monash University. He is the author of Nietzsches Therapy (Lexington 2008), Nietzsches The Gay Science (Cambridge University Press 2019) and many essays in the history of philosophy and political theory.

Patrick Wotling graduated from the Paris cole Normale Suprieure, and currently is Professor of Contemporary Philosophy at Reims University. He is the author of Nietzsche et le problme de la civilisation (1995, 2012), La philosophie de lesprit libre (2008, 2019), Dictionnaire Nietzsche (in cooperation with Cline Denat, 2013) and Oui, lhomme fut un essai. La philosophie de lavenir selon Nietzsche (2016).

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