Keith Ansell-Pearson
Biographic Data
| ID | 313901 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Keith Ansell-Pearson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Keith |
| FAMILY NAME | Ansell-Pearson |
| SIGNATURE | ANSELL-PEARSON K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Warwick |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6171-8003 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 62 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 55 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 7 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Sharing Secrets with the Sea: Nietzsche, Emerson, Santayana, and Feeling Sympathy with Nature
This essay provides a close reading of the intriguing aphorism entitled “In the great silence”’ that opens the final part of Nietzsche’s text of 1881, Dawn (Morgenröthe). Highly enigmatic and interpretatively demanding, aphorism 423 of the book is an instance of Nietzsche's unique style of doing philosophy and reveals important facets of his thinking. Our essay in particular attempts to illuminate Nietzsche’s thinking on nature, the sublime, and …
Nietzsche's ‘Thus Spoke Zarathustra': A Critical Guide
Nietzsche regarded Thus Spoke Zarathustra as his most important philosophical contribution because it proposes solutions to the problems and questions he poses in his later books – for example, his cure for the human disposition to vengefulness and his creation of new values as the antidote to nihilism. It is also the only place where he elaborates his concepts of the superhuman and the eternal recurrence of the same. In this Critical Guide, an i…
Nietzsche's 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra': A Critical Guide
Nietzsche on the passions and self-cultivation: Contra the Stoics and Spinoza
Although the literature on Nietzsche is now voluminous one area where there has surprisingly been very little research concerns Nietzsche on the passions. This essay aims to correct this neglect. My focus is on illuminating Nietzsche on the passions in relation to his primary teaching on self-cultivation. To illuminate his position, I focus attention on examining his relation to Stoic teaching on the passions. If for Nietzsche the Christian mind-…
Effort and Grace: On the Spiritual Exercise of Philosophy
Philosophy and theology have long harboured contradictory views on spiritual practice. While philosophy advocates the therapeutic benefits of daily meditation, the theology of grace promotes an ideal of happiness bestowed with little effort. As such, the historical juxtaposition of effort and grace grounding modern spiritual exercise can be seen as the essential tension between the secular and sacred
Nietzsche's Metaphilosophy: The Nature, Method, and Aims of Philosophy
In this edited volume, Paul Loeb and Matthew Meyer have assembled thirteen contributors to address the topic of Nietzsche and metaphilosophy. We know that Nietzsche was preoccupied with questions about the nature and tasks of philosophy from the very beginning of his intellectual career, notably in his lectures on the pre-Platonic philosophers, and that these questions assume a central role in the writings of his late period, notably BGE.The volu…
Individuality and Beyond: Nietzsche Reads Emerson
Individuality and Beyond: Nietzsche Reads Emerson Individuality and Beyond: Nietzsche Reads Emerson. By Zavatta Benedetta (trans. Reynolds Alexander). (Oxford: OUP, 2019. Pp. 265. Price £55.00. ISBN: 978-0-19-092921-3 hbk.) Keith Ansell-Pearson Keith Ansell-Pearson University of Warwick, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 71, Issue 1, January 2021, Pages 204–207, https:/…
Nietzsche's Dawn: Philosophy, Ethics, and the Passion of Knowledge
Nietzsche's Dawn: Philosophy, Ethics, and the Passion of Knowledge
Nietzsche: On the Genealogy of Morality and Other Writings
Bergson: Thinking Beyond the Human Condition
The book seeks to illuminate Bergson's view that philosophy is the discipline of thinking that makes the effort to think beyond the human condition so as to extend our perception of the universe. In the book I explore Bergson on time and freedom, on memory, on his reformation of philosophy in Creative Evolution, on religion, on ethics, and on education and the art of life
Nietzsche's Search for Philosophy: On the Middle Writings
In Nietzsche's Search for Philosophy: On the Middle Writings Keith Ansell-Pearson makes a novel and thought-provoking contribution to our appreciation of Nietzsche's neglected middle writings. These are the texts Human, all too Human (1878-80), Dawn (1881), and The Gay Science (1882). There is a truth in the observation of Havelock Ellis that the works Nietzsche produced between 1878 and 1882 represent the maturity of his genius. In this study he…
Janae Sholtz (2015) The Invention of a People: Heidegger and Deleuze on Art and the Political
On Nietzsche
This is an expanded edition and new translation of Bataille's Sur Nietzsche, which was written during the final months of the Nazi occupation of France in 1944. Bataille's book offers a highly unorthodox appreciation of Nietzsche. Stuart Kendall, the translator, comments on the startling heterogeneity of the book and incisively describes it as an “assemblage,” being at once commentary, chronicle, diary, lecture, and meditation. Kendall thinks the…
Affectivity and Philosophy after Spinoza and Nietzsche: Making Knowledge the Most Powerful Affect
In 1881 Nietzsche discovered that he had a precursor: Spinoza. In a letter to Franz Overbeck postmarked July 30—the eve of the experience of the eternal recurrence—he enumerated the points of doctrine that he believed he shared with Spinoza, including the denial of free will, a moral world order, and evil, and he also mentioned the task of “making knowledge the most powerful affect [die Erkenntniß zum mächtigsten Affekt zu machen]” (KSB 6:111). A…
Naturalism as a Joyful Science: Nietzsche, Deleuze, and the Art of Life
In this article I explore naturalism as a joyful science by focusing on how Nietzsche and Deleuze appropriate an Epicurean legacy. In the first section I introduce some salient features of Epicurean naturalism and highlight how the study of nature is to guide ethical reflection on the art of living. In the next section I focus on Nietzsche and show the nature and extent of his Epicurean commitments in his middle period writings. In the third and …
Introduction: Nietzsche and the Ethics of Naturalism
Nietzsche's naturalism is a well-rehearsed theme. The latter has become somewhat of an orthodoxy in Anglo-American scholarship, and it is often connected to the rediscovery of Nietzsche's ethical thought among analytic philosophers. Philosophical naturalism, of course, can mean many different things, and Nietzsche's rhetoric, his polemical stance and tendency toward hyperbole, are not exactly hallmarks of a philosophical naturalism that situates …
On Bergson's Reformation of Philosophy
In this essay I focus on the text Creative Evolution (1907) and show that although Bergson intended to make a contribution to the science of biology and to the philosophy of life, the primary aim of the text is to show the need for a fundamental reformation of philosophy. Bergson wants to show how, through an appreciation of the evolution of life, philosophy can expand our perception of the universe. I examine in detail the two essential claims h…
Nietzsche's Justice: Naturalism in Search of an Ethics
This is one of the finest studies published to date in the English-speaking reception of Nietzsche's naturalism. Besides a clear sense of Nietzsche's naturalism, it provides the reader with a clear understanding of just what it means to read Nietzsche seriously as a progressive political thinker, one in search of an ethics of mercy, and what it means to comprehend the will to power as a philosophy of practice. In particular, Sedgwick wants to dem…
Heroic-Idyllic Philosophizing: Nietzsche and the Epicurean Tradition
This essay looks at Nietzsche in relation to the Epicurean tradition. It focuses on his middle period writings of 1878–82 – texts such as Human, all too Human , Dawn , and The Gay Science – and seeks to show that an ethos of Epicurean enlightenment pervades these texts, with Epicurus celebrated for his teaching of modest pleasures and cultivation of philosophical serenity. For Nietzsche, Epicurus is one of the greatest human beings to have ever g…
The New Century
Morality and the philosophy of life in Guyau and Bergson
New Century: Bergsonism, Phenomenology and Responses to Modern Science
Contra Kant and Beyond Nietzsche: Naturalizing Ethics in the Work of Jean-Marie Guyau
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Introduction: Nietzsche and the Passions
Nietzsche has some striking thoughts on the passions. In a note from the end of 1880 he writes that without the passions the world is reduced to simply “quantity and line and law and nonsense,” presenting us with “the most repulsive and presumptuous paradox” (KSA 9:7[226]).1 Indeed, Robert Solomon has argued that Nietzsche attacks the modern stress on epistemology within philosophy and seeks to return philosophy to its true vocation as a doctrine…
The Reality of the Virtual: Bergson and Deleuze
The Reality of the Virtual:Bergson and Deleuze Keith Ansell Pearson Questions relating to subject and object, to their distinction and their union, should be put in terms of time rather than of space. Henri Bergson, Matter and Memory Time is not the interior in us, but just the opposite, the interiority in which we are, in which we move, live and change . . . Subjectivity is never ours, it is time, that is, the soul or the spirit, the virtual. Gi…
Nietzsche on Autonomy and Morality: The Challenge to Political Theory
Nietzsche's challenge to political theory can be located in his claim that autonomy and morality are mutually exclusive. In this paper an examination of Kant's attempt to ground a notion of autonomy through constructing a metaphysic of morals is followed by a consideration of Nietzsche's understanding of autonomy in terms of a notion of supra-moral sovereign individuality. A genealogy of morals represents an attempt to historicize the key notions…
The Transfiguration of Existence and Sovereign Life: Sloterdijk and Nietzsche on Posthuman and Superhuman Futures
This essay provides a close reading of Sloterdijk's book Thinker on Stage: Nietzsche's Materialism (1989, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, MN). Sloterdijk's book is itself a discussion of Nietzsche's book The Birth of Tragedy, and the account offered here is a critical appreciation of both texts, focusing on the question of individual and collective existence. The essay looks at the question of the future of the human, raising the ques…
Aesthetics and subjectivity: From Kant to Nietzsche
Aesthetics and subjectivity: From Kant to Nietzsche." History of European Ideas, 18(3), pp. 444–445
Who is the Ubermensch? Time, Truth, and Woman in Nietzsche
In this essay I seek to examine the question of the identity of Nietzsche's Ubermensch in the light of the intellectual revolution brought about in our understanding of texts by deconstruction. With its notions of textuality, interpretation, the metaphoricity of language, and the undecidability of philosophical discourse, deconstruction has radicalized the way in which we construe questions of authorship. I shall draw freely on
Naturalism as a Joyful Science: Nietzsche, Deleuze, and the Art of Life
In this article I explore naturalism as a joyful science by focusing on how Nietzsche and Deleuze appropriate an Epicurean legacy. In the first section I introduce some salient features of Epicurean naturalism and highlight how the study of nature is to guide ethical reflection on the art of living. In the next section I focus on Nietzsche and show the nature and extent of his Epicurean commitments in his middle period writings. In the third and …
Introduction: Nietzsche and the Ethics of Naturalism
Nietzsche's naturalism is a well-rehearsed theme. The latter has become somewhat of an orthodoxy in Anglo-American scholarship, and it is often connected to the rediscovery of Nietzsche's ethical thought among analytic philosophers. Philosophical naturalism, of course, can mean many different things, and Nietzsche's rhetoric, his polemical stance and tendency toward hyperbole, are not exactly hallmarks of a philosophical naturalism that situates …
On Bergson's Reformation of Philosophy
In this essay I focus on the text Creative Evolution (1907) and show that although Bergson intended to make a contribution to the science of biology and to the philosophy of life, the primary aim of the text is to show the need for a fundamental reformation of philosophy. Bergson wants to show how, through an appreciation of the evolution of life, philosophy can expand our perception of the universe. I examine in detail the two essential claims h…
Beyond the Human Condition: An Introduction to Deleuze's Lecture Course
Beyond the Human Condition: An Introduction to Deleuze's Lecture Course1 Keith Ansell Pearson University of Warwick Introduction Deleuze's 1960 lecture course at l'Ecole Supérieure de Saint-Cloud on chapter three of Bergson's Creative Evolution is of interest to us today for a number of reasons. The course can be read in the light of Deleuze's attempt from 1956 to 1966 to demonstrate Bergson's importance for philosophy (what we might call "the Be…
The Exoteric Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche
This response takes issue with S. B. Drury's reading Nietzsche in vital, concluding pages her essay on Esoteric Philosophy Leo Strauss.' Drury's reading merits a response because conclusions she draws from her reading and political ends to which Nietzsche's thinking is directed. Such a confrontation and exchange will, I believe, enable me to show that Nietzsche is, in fact, a critic type political conservatism Drury locates in Strauss's work, and…
Nietzsche Contra Rousseau: A study of Nietzsche's moral and political thought
Keith Ansell-Pearson's book is an important and very welcome contribution to a neglected area of research: Nietzsche's political thought. Nietzsche is widely regarded as a significant moral philosopher, but his political thinking has often been dismissed as either impossibly individualistic or dangerously totalitarian. Nietzsche contra Rousseau takes a serious look at Nietzsche as political thinker and relates his political ideas to the dominant …
Nietzsche on Autonomy and Morality: The Challenge to Political Theory
Nietzsche's challenge to political theory can be located in his claim that autonomy and morality are mutually exclusive. In this paper an examination of Kant's attempt to ground a notion of autonomy through constructing a metaphysic of morals is followed by a consideration of Nietzsche's understanding of autonomy in terms of a notion of supra-moral sovereign individuality. A genealogy of morals represents an attempt to historicize the key notions…
Who is the Ubermensch? Time, Truth, and Woman in Nietzsche
In this essay I seek to examine the question of the identity of Nietzsche's Ubermensch in the light of the intellectual revolution brought about in our understanding of texts by deconstruction. With its notions of textuality, interpretation, the metaphoricity of language, and the undecidability of philosophical discourse, deconstruction has radicalized the way in which we construe questions of authorship. I shall draw freely on
Nietzsche and Modern Thought
Encountering the Alien in the Heidegger Affair: Some Reflections in Response To Barry Hindess
There is a pressing need to think the Heidegger affair. There are several states of urgency, and thus the affair is not the exclusive province of the political or politics. There is an urgency of thought. 1 A union of state and philosophy can make sense only if philosophy promises to be unconditionally useful to the state, that is to say, to set usefulness to the state higher than the truth. It would be splendid of course for the state if it also…
An Introduction to Nietzsche as Political Thinker: The Perfect Nihilist
This is a lively and engaging introduction to the contentious topic of Nietzsche's political thought. It traces the development of Nietzsche's thinking on politics from his earliest writings to the mature work in which he advocates aristocratic radicalism as opposed to 'petty' European nationalism. The key ideas of the will to power, eternal return and the overman are discussed and all Nietzsche's major works analysed in detail, such as Beyond Go…
Nietzsche contra Rousseau: A Study of Nietzsche's Moral and Political Thought
1. Nietzsche contra Rousseau 2. Civilization and its discontents: Rousseau on man's natural goodness 3. Squaring the circle: Rousseau on the General Will 4. Nietzsche's Dionysian drama on the destiny of the soul: on the 'Genealogy of Morals' 5. Zarathustra's descent: on a teaching of redemption 6. Bending the bow: great politics, or, the problem of the legislator Conclusion Bibliography Index
Heidegger's Decline: Between Philosophy and Politics
Philosophy is the most serious of things, but then again it is not all that serious. (T. W. Adorno, Negative Dialectics)
Aesthetics and subjectivity: From Kant to Nietzsche
Aesthetics and subjectivity: From Kant to Nietzsche." History of European Ideas, 18(3), pp. 444–445
Nietzsche's post-modern identity: From Epoch to Ethos
The An-Economy of Time's Giving: Contributions to the Event of Heidegger
Analyse de la conception an-economique, non-anthropocentrique et non-productionniste du temps de l'evenement dans les «Contributions a la philosophie» de Heidegger. Entre presence et difference, l'A. etudie l'evenement de la pensee de Heidegger comprise entre la destruction de l'histoire de l'ontologie et depassement philosophique de la metaphysique traditionnelle
Philosophy and the Adventure of the Virtual: Bergson and the Time of Life
Deleuze and Philosophy: The Difference Engineer
The Reality of the Virtual: Bergson and Deleuze
The Reality of the Virtual:Bergson and Deleuze Keith Ansell Pearson Questions relating to subject and object, to their distinction and their union, should be put in terms of time rather than of space. Henri Bergson, Matter and Memory Time is not the interior in us, but just the opposite, the interiority in which we are, in which we move, live and change . . . Subjectivity is never ours, it is time, that is, the soul or the spirit, the virtual. Gi…
Friedrich Nietzsche: On the Genealogy of Morality
A Companion to Nietzsche
Beyond the Human Condition: An Introduction to Deleuze's Lecture Course
Beyond the Human Condition: An Introduction to Deleuze's Lecture Course1 Keith Ansell Pearson University of Warwick Introduction Deleuze's 1960 lecture course at l'Ecole Supérieure de Saint-Cloud on chapter three of Bergson's Creative Evolution is of interest to us today for a number of reasons. The course can be read in the light of Deleuze's attempt from 1956 to 1966 to demonstrate Bergson's importance for philosophy (what we might call "the Be…
Speculating on the Moment: The Poetics of Time and Recurrence in Goethe, Leopardi, and Nietzsche
Book Review| October 01 2008 Speculating on the Moment: The Poetics of Time and Recurrence in Goethe, Leopardi, and Nietzsche Speculating on the Moment: The Poetics of Time and Recurrence in Goethe, Leopardi, and NietzscheRennie, Nicholas Keith Ansell-Pearson Keith Ansell-Pearson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Journal of Nietzsche Studies (2008) 35-36 (1): 198–200. https://doi.org/10.2307/20717947 Cite Icon Cite Sh…
Nietzsches Materialismus und Nietzsches Idealismus
Nietzsche: Attempt at a Mythology
Book Review| October 01 2009 Nietzsche: Attempt at a Mythology Nietzsche: Attempt at a MythologyBertram, Ernst; Norton, Robert E. Keith Ansell-Pearson Keith Ansell-Pearson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Journal of Nietzsche Studies (2009) 38 (1): 93–95. https://doi.org/10.2307/20717979 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Keith Ansell-Pearson; Nietzsche: Attempt at a Mythology. T…
Die Vermessung des Ungeheuren: Philosophie nach Peter Sloterdijk
Gleichsam im Schatten seiner massenmedialen Präsenz baut Peter Sloterdijk seit nunmehr einem Vierteljahrhundert an einem philosophischen Werk, das heute – weit davon entfernt, abgeschlossen zu sein – in Umrissen als komplexes Ganzes sichtbar zu werden beginnt. Der Band versammelt erstmals Essays herausragender Intellektueller aus dem deutschsprachigen und internationalen Raum, die sich von Sloterdijks philosophischer Erhellung unserer Gegenwart i…
The Transfiguration of Existence and Sovereign Life: Sloterdijk and Nietzsche on Posthuman and Superhuman Futures
This essay provides a close reading of Sloterdijk's book Thinker on Stage: Nietzsche's Materialism (1989, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, MN). Sloterdijk's book is itself a discussion of Nietzsche's book The Birth of Tragedy, and the account offered here is a critical appreciation of both texts, focusing on the question of individual and collective existence. The essay looks at the question of the future of the human, raising the ques…
Nietzsche, the Sublime, and the Sublimities of Philosophy: An Interpretation of Dawn
This essay is an exploration of how the concept of the sublime is deployed by Nietzsche in Dawn (1881). This text represents a high point in' Nietzsche's thinking on the sublime. Nietzsche, I show, wants us to purify ourselves of the origins and sources of our desire for the sublime because the higher feelings associated with it are bound up with humanity's investment in an imaginary world. However, he does not propose that we simply jettison the…
Nietzsche’s Animal Philosophy: Culture, Politics, and the Animality of the Human Being
Philosophy (55 works) · Epistemology (47 works) · Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Hegel (40 works) · Philosophy (27 works) · Art (15 works) · Law (15 works) · Philosophical Ethics and Theory (13 works) · Psychology (13 works) · Politics (12 works) · Theology (12 works)