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

Friedrich Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German philosopher. He began his career as a classical philology, classical philologist, turning to philosophy early in his academic career. In 1869, aged 24, Nietzsche bec ...

Henri Bergson Henri-Louis Bergson (; ; 18 October 1859 – 4 January 1941) was a French philosopher who was influential in the traditions of analytic philosophy and continental philosophy, especially during the first half of the 20th century until the S ...

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 volumes o ...

. He is currently Professor of Philosophy at

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. 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 The University of Sussex is a public university, public research university, research university located in Falmer, East Sussex, England. It lies mostly within the city boundaries of Brighton and Hove. Its large campus site is surrounded by the ...

and taught at the

University of Malawi The University of Malawi (UNIMA) is a public university A public university, state university, or public college is a university or college that is State ownership, owned by the state or receives significant funding from a government. Whethe ...

in southern Africa and

Queen Mary College Queen Mary University of London (QMUL, or informally QM, and formerly Queen Mary and Westfield College) is a public research university in Mile End, East London, England. It is a member institution of the federal University of London. Today, ...

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. 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 and Warwickshire, England. The university was founded in 1965 as part of ...

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 ...

'', ''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. 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.
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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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