Keith Ansell-Pearson is a British philosopher specialising in the work of

Friedrich Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (; or ; 15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German philosopher, prose poet, cultural critic, philologist, and composer whose work has exerted a profound influence on contemporary philosophy. He began his ...

Henri Bergson Henri-Louis Bergson (; 18 October 1859 – 4 January 1941) was a French philosopherHenri Bergson. 2014. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Retrieved 13 August 2014, from https://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/61856/Henri-Bergson

and

Gilles Deleuze Gilles Louis René Deleuze ( , ; 18 January 1925 – 4 November 1995) was a French philosopher who, from the early 1950s until his death in 1995, wrote on philosophy, literature, film, and fine art. His most popular works were the two volu ...

. He is currently Professor of Philosophy at Warwick University. Ansell-Pearson is the author of numerous books including ''Germinal Life'', ''Viroid Life'' and ''Philosophy and the Adventure of the Virtual.''

Career

Ansell-Pearson graduated from the

University of Sussex , mottoeng = Be Still and Know , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £14.4 million (2020) , budget = £319.6 million (2019–20) , chancellor = Sanjeev Bhaskar , vice_chancellor = Sasha Roseneil , ...

and taught at the

University of Malawi The University of Malawi (UNIMA) is a public university established in 1965 and until 4 May 2021, when the university underwent a delinking, was composed of four constituent colleges located in Zomba, Blantyre, and Lilongwe. Of the four colleges, ...

in southern Africa and Queen Mary College in

London London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a majo ...

. He joined the Philosophy Department of the

University of Warwick The University of Warwick ( ; abbreviated as ''Warw.'' in post-nominal letters) is a public research university on the outskirts of Coventry between the West Midlands (county), West Midlands and Warwickshire, England. The university was founded i ...

in 1993 and has held a Personal Chair since 1998. He is on the editorial boards of ''

Journal of Nietzsche Studies ''The Journal of Nietzsche Studies'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal devoted to the life, thought and writings of Friedrich Nietzsche. The journal is published three times a year by the Penn State University Press and has its editorial home at ...

'', ''Nietzsche-Studien'', ''

Deleuze Studies Gilles Louis René Deleuze ( , ; 18 January 1925 – 4 November 1995) was a French philosopher who, from the early 1950s until his death in 1995, wrote on philosophy, literature, film, and fine art. His most popular works were the two volu ...

'', ''

Cosmos and History Open Humanities Press is an international open access publishing initiative in the humanities, specializing in critical and cultural theory. OHP's editorial board includes scholars like Alain Badiou, Jonathan Culler, Stephen Greenblatt, Jean ...

'' and the book series ''Nietzsche Now''. He serves on the scientific committee of ''Nietzscheana''.

Work

Ansell-Pearson is known for his work on Nietzsche, Bergson, and Deleuze, and for exploring their work in the context of modern

biophilosophy The philosophy of biology is a subfield of philosophy of science, which deals with epistemological, metaphysical, and ethical issues in the biological and biomedical sciences. Although philosophers of science and philosophers generally have long ...

. Lately he has been focusing on Nietzsche's neglected middle period texts, especially '' Daybreak''.

Selected bibliography

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References

External links

"Bergson", in Dean Moyar (ed.), The Routledge Companion to Nineteenth Century Philosophy (Routledge, 2010), pp. 403-33."Responses to Evolution: Spencer's Evolutionism, Bergsonism, and Contemporary Biology" (with Paul-Antoine Miquel & Michael Vaughan), The History of Continental Philosophy, volume three (Acumen/University of Chicago Press, 2010), pp. 347-79."Bergson and Ethics", in Hugh LaFollette, The International Encyclopedia of Ethics (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013), pp. 513-520.Beyond the Human State: Bergson, Education and the Art of LifeThe Future is Subhuman
Review of Malcolm Bull's ''Anti-Nietzsche'' (2011)
Philosophy of the Acrobat: On Peter Sloterdijk.
On Sloterdijk's
You Must Change your Life
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The Art of Philosophy: Wisdom as a Practice
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Nietzsche, the Middle Period
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