Keith Ansell-Pearson Explained

Region:	Western philosophy
Era:	Contemporary philosophy
Keith Ansell-Pearson
Birth Date:	1960 11, df=yes
Institutions:	University of Warwick University of London
School Tradition:	Continental philosophy

Keith Ansell-Pearson is a British philosopher specialising in the work of Friedrich Nietzsche, Henri Bergson and Gilles Deleuze. He is currently Professor of Philosophy at Warwick University.^[1]

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 and taught at the University of Malawi in southern Africa and Queen Mary College in London. He joined the Philosophy Department of the University of Warwick in 1993 and has held a Personal Chair since 1998.^[2]

He is on the editorial boards of Journal of Nietzsche Studies, Nietzsche-Studien, Deleuze Studies, Cosmos and History 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.^[3] Lately he has been focusing on Nietzsche's neglected middle period texts, especially Daybreak.

Selected bibliography

• Book: Nietzsche and Modern German Thought. 1991. Routledge. London. 978-0-415-04442-4.
• Book: Nietzsche Contra Rousseau: A Study of Nietzsche's Moral and Political Thought. 1991. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge; New York. 978-0-521-41173-8.
• Book: An Introduction to Nietzsche as Political Thinker: The Perfect Nihilist. 1994. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge; New York. 978-0-521-42721-0.
• Book: Nietzsche Contra Rousseau: A Study of Nietzsche's Moral and Political Thought. 1996. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge; New York. 978-0-521-57569-0.
• Book: Deleuze and Philosophy: The Difference Engineer . 1997. Routledge. London. 978-0-415-14269-4.
• Book: Viroid Life: Perspectives on Nietzsche and the Transhuman Condition . 1997. Routledge. London. 978-0-415-15435-2.
• Book: Germinal Life: The Difference and Repetition of Deleuze . 1998. Routledge. London. 978-0-415-18351-2.
• Book: Philosophy and the Adventure of the Virtual: Bergson and the Time of Life. 2002. Routledge. London. 9780203469361.
• Book: A Companion to Nietzsche. 2006. Blackwell. Oxford. 978-1-4051-1622-0.
• Book: Nietzsche's Search for Philosophy: On the Middle Writings. 2018. Bloomsbury. London. 9781474254700 .
• Book: Bergson: Thinking Beyond the Human Condition. 2018. Bloomsbury. London. 978-1350043954.

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 Life
• The 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 and The Art of Philosophy: Wisdom as a Practice
• Nietzsche, the Middle Period - Interview at 3:AM Magazine

Notes and References

1. Web site: Keith Ansell-Pearson. grantabooks.com. Granta Books. 14 July 2015. 11 September 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150911225439/http://grantabooks.com/Keith-Ansell-Pearson. dead.
2. Web site: Keith Ansell-Pearson . warwick.ac.uk . University of Warwick . 13 July 2015 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150714040233/http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/philosophy/people/faculty/pearson/ . 14 July 2015 .
3. Book: Ansell-Pearson. Keith. Germinal Life: The Difference and Repetition of Deleuze. 2012. Routledge. London. 978-1134671199. 1.