My research interests are in 19th century and 20th century European philosophy. I have published monographs on Nietzsche, Bergson, and Deleuze, as well as introductions and edited volumes. I serve on the editorial boards of Nietzsche-Studien and Journal of Nietzsche Studies.  I am currently supervising students pursuing PhD theses on the following topics:  Nietzsche and conscience;  Nietzsche and Merleau-Ponty on truth;  Bergson and Fichte on freedom; Bergson as social philosopher; Nietzsche and Deleuze on a superior human nature; Nietzsche and Blanchot on the exigency of return; Deleuze and psychoanalysis.

Current Research 

I am currently at work on books on Nietzsche and Bergson.  I am also researching material for a number of new essays, including Nieyzsche and the Passion of Knowledge and an essay on Bergson's Two Sources of Morality and Religion for an edited volume on the text to be published by Duke University Press.  I am also involved in several editing projects:

• Volume three of a new History of Continental Philosophy to be published by Acumen Press in eight volumes (the volume covers the period 1890-1930 and is entitled 'The New Century').   
• With a team of co-editors a volume on Nietzsche's key concepts and ideas (Basil Blackwell).
• With Michael Ure a special issue of Journal of Nietzsche Studies (42, spring 2011) on Nietzsche and the affects.

Selected Recent and Forthcoming Publications

1. (with Duncan Large) The Nietzsche Reader, Basil Blackwell, 2006.
2. A Companion to Nietzsche, Basil Blackwell, 2006; pbk. 2009.
3. Henri Bergson Centennial Series, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
4. "Nietzsche, the Sublime, and the Sublimities of Philosophy", Nietzsche-Studien, Band 39, 2010 (forthcoming).
5. "For Mortal Souls: Philosophy and Therapeia in Nietzsche's Dawn', in Jonardon Ganeri & Clare Carlisle (eds.), Philosophy as Therapeia (Royal Institute of Philosophy, Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2010).    
6. "Superior Empiricism: Nietzsche on the Utility and Liability of History for Life", in K. Gemes & J. Richardson (eds.), The Oxford Handbook to Nietzsche (Oxford UP, forthcoming 2010).
7. "Responses to Evolution: Spencer's Evolutionism, Bergsonism, and Contemporary Biology" (with Paul-Antoine Miquel & Michael Vaughan), The History of Continental Philosophy, volume three (Acumen, forthcoming 2010).
8. "Bergson on Memory"
9. & "Deleuze on the Overcoming of Memory", both in S. Radstone & B. Schwarz (eds.), Mapping Memory, Fordham University Press (forthcoming 2010).  
10. ""Bergson" in D. Moyar (ed.), The Routledge Companion to Nineteenth Century Philosophy (forthcoming 2010). 
11. "On the Sublime in Nietzsche's Dawn", Pli 19, 2009, pp. 165-94; The Agonist II: 1, 2009, pp. 5-30 (full version).
12. "'Holding on to the Sublime':  Nietzsche on Philosophy's Perception and Search for Greatness", in H. Siemens (ed.), Nietzsche, Power, and Politics, Walter de Gruyter, 2009, pp. 767-801 (uncorrected proofs).
13. "Nietzsches Materialismus und Nietzsches Idealismus", in Marc Jongen, Koenraad Hemelsoet, & Sjoerd van Tuinen (eds.), Die Vermessung des Ungeheuren. Philosophie nach Peter Sloterdijk (Wilhelm Fink, 2009), pp. 467-84.
14. "The Transfiguration of Existence and Sovereign Life: Sloterdijk and Nietzsche on Posthuman and Superhuman Futures", Society and Space, 27: 1, 2009, pp. 139-56 (special issue on Sloterdijk).
15. "Free Thinkers and Free Spirits: Nietzsche and Guyau on the Future of Morality", in J. Metzger (ed.), Nietzsche, Nihilism and the Philosophy of the Future (Continuum 2009), pp. 102-24.
16.  Review Essay of Evan Thompson, Mind in Life (Harvard UP), Journal of Phenomenology and Cognitive Science, 8: 1 (2009), pp. 151-8.  
17. "Incorporation and Individuation: Nietzsche's Use of Phenomenology for Life", Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, 38: 1, 2007, pp. 61-90.
18. "Beyond the Human Condition: An Introduction to Deleuze's Lecture Course", Substance, 36: 3, 2007, pp. 1-15.
19. "The Incorporation of Truth", in A Companion to Nietzsche (Basil Blackwell), 2006, pp. 230-50.  
20. ‘Reading Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of Morality as a “Dionysian drama on the fate of the soul”’, in Christa Davis Acampora (ed.), Critical Essays on the Classic Texts:  Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of Morals (Rowman & Littlefield, 2006), pp. 19-39.
21. 'Une nouvelle approche du Surhumain', Noesis, 10, Autumn 2006, pp. 141-65.
22. 'Bergson and Deleuze on the Reality of the Virtual’, Modern Language Notes, volume 120, no. 5, 2006, pp. 1112-1127.
23. Nietzsche on the Ultimate Beauties’, Revista di Estetica, 28: 1, 2005, pp. 33-47.
24. 'Bergson’s Encounter with Biology: Thinking Life’, Angelaki: A Journal of Humanities, 10: 2, 2005, pp. 59-72. 
25. ‘El Tiempo, el Espacio, el Movimiento Forzado y la pulsion de muerte. Leer a Proust con Deleuze’, Revista Laguna, 15, 2005, pp. 57-89 ('Time, Space, Forced Movement, and the Death-Drive: Reading Proust with Deleuze’, Pli 15, 2004, pp. 159-99).

Undergraduate Modules

Post-Kantian Continental Philosophy I

MA Modules

Nietzsche and post Nietzsche 

Topics in Continental Philosophy

Bergsonism 

Links

The Friedrich Nietzsche Society

The Nietzsche Circle