David Farrell Krell (born 1944),

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"Krell, David Farrell"
/ref> is an American philosopher. He is professor emeritus of philosophy at

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. He received his Ph.D. in philosophy at

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, where he wrote his dissertation on

Heidegger Martin Heidegger (; ; 26 September 188926 May 1976) was a German philosopher who is best known for contributions to phenomenology, hermeneutics, and existentialism. He is among the most important and influential philosophers of the 20th centur ...

and

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 car ...

. He has taught at many universities in Germany, France, and England. Specializing in Continental Philosophy, he has written many books on

and

, including ''Daimon Life: Heidegger and Life Philosophy'' (1992), ''Intimations of Mortality: Time, Truth, and Finitude in Heidegger's Thinking of Being'' (1986), ''The Good European: Nietzsche's Work Sites in Word and Image'' (1997), and ''Infectious Nietzsche'' (1996). Additionally, Krell has written extensively about

German Idealism German idealism was a philosophical movement that emerged in Germany in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. It developed out of the work of Immanuel Kant in the 1780s and 1790s, and was closely linked both with Romanticism and the revolutionary ...

, his books in this area include ''The Tragic Absolute: German Idealism and the Languishing of God'' (2005), and ''Contagion: Sexuality, Disease, and Death in German Idealism and Romanticism'' (Indiana, 1998). Krell has also translated Heidegger's lectures on Nietzsche, and was the editor of Heidegger's ''Basic Writings'' (1977). In a 2005 interview, Krell cited Jacques Derrida as a major influence on his work on Nietzsche.

Major works

*''Cudgel and the Caress, The: Reflections on Cruelty and Tenderness'' (SUNY, 2019) *''The Sea: A Philosophical Encounter'' (Bloomsbury, 2018) *''Ecstasy, Catastrophe: Heidegger from'' Being and Time ''to the'' Black Notebooks (SUNY, 2015) *''Phantoms of the Other: Four Generations of Derrida's Geschlecht'' (SUNY, 2015) *''Derrida and Our Animal Others: Derrida's Final Seminar, the Beast and the Sovereign'' (Indiana, U.P., 2013) *''The Tragic Absolute: German Idealism and the Languishing of God'' (Indiana, 2005) *''The Purest of Bastards: Works on Mourning, Art, and Affirmation in the Thought of Jacques Derrida'' (Pennsylvania, 2000) *''Contagion: Sexuality, Disease, and Death in German Idealism and Romanticism'' (Indiana, 1998) *''Archeticture ic Ecstasies of Space, Time, and the Human Body'' (SUNY, 1997) *''Son of Spirit: A Novel'' (SUNY, 1997) *''The Good European: Nietzsche's Work Sites in Word and Image'', with Donald Bates (Chicago, 1997) *''Infectious Nietzsche'' (Indiana, 1996) *''Nietzsche: A Novel'', (SUNY, 1996) *''Lunar Voices: Of Tragedy, Poetry, Fiction, and Thought'' (Chicago, 1995) *''Daimon Life: Heidegger and Life-Philosophy'' (Indiana, 1992) *''Of Memory, Reminiscence, and Writing: On the Verge'' (Indiana, 1990) *''Postponements: Woman, Sensuality, and Death in Nietzsche'' (Indiana 1986) *''Intimations of Mortality: Time, Truth, and Finitude in Heidegger's Thinking of Being'' (Pennsylvania UP, 1986) As Editor and Translator * Friedrich Hölderlin, ''The Death of Empedocles'' (Ed., Introduction) (SUNY Press, 2008) * Martin Heidegger, ''Nietzsche: Volumes Three and Four''. (Trans.) (New York HarperOne, 1991) * Martin Heidegger, ''Nietzsche: Volumes One and Two''. (Trans.) (New York HarperOne, 1991) * Martin Heidegger, ''Basic Writings'' (Ed.) (HarperCollins, 1977)

References

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