Keith Ansell-Pearson (born 1960) is a British philosopher specialising in the work of Friedrich Nietzsche, Henri Bergson and Gilles Deleuze. He is currently Emeritus 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 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, where he held a Personal Chair between 1998 and his retirement in 2021.
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. Lately he has been focusing on Nietzsche's neglected middle period texts, especially Daybreak.
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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 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