Dr Manuel Dries
| Research Fellow in Philosophy manuel.driesATphilosophy.ox.ac.uk Wolfson College Research InterestsEuropean philosophy 1675 to the present. |
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Career & Education
2008– Research Fellow (Wolfson College) Faculty of Philosophy, Oxford.
2008– Équipe Nietzsche, Ecole Normale Supérieure (CNRS–ITEM), Paris, France.
2007 Junior Research Fellow (Wolfson College) Faculty of Philosophy, Oxford.
2006 PhD, Cambridge (Girton). Dissertation: 'The Paradigm of Becoming–Nihilism and Becoming from Antiquity to Nietzsche'.
2001 MPhil, Cambridge (Girton). Dissertation: 'Nihilism and Self in Nietzsche's Philosophy'.
2000 BA Hons., Exeter University. Dissertation: 'Nietzsche and Expressionist Aesthetics'.
Books
Nietzsche on Time and History (Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2008)
Contributors: Andrea Orsucci, Thomas H. Brobjer, Raymond Geuss, Tinneke Beeckman, John Richardson, Manuel Dries, Lawrence J. Hatab, R. Kevin Hill, Paul S. Loeb, Herman Siemens, Anthony K. Jensen, Martin A. Rühl, Katherine Harloe, Jonathan R. Cohen. [Table of Contents]
Nihilism and the Paradigm of Becoming in Modern European Philosophy (manuscript under review)
Articles
The Logic of New Values in Nietzsche's Umwerthung, Journal of Nietzsche Studies 39 (2010) forthcoming
Nietzsche’s Critique of Staticism, in Nietzsche on Time and History (Berlin, New York: de Gruyter, 2008), pp. 1–19.
Towards Adualism: Becoming and Nihilism in Nietzsche’s Philosophy, in Nietzsche on Time and History (Berlin, New York: de Gruyter, 2008), pp. 113–145.
Friedrich Schiller’s Adualistic Conception of Unity, Publications of the English Goethe Society 1/75 (2006), pp. 53–58.
Nietzsche and Morality, ed. B. Leiter and N. Sinhababu (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), David Owen, Nietzsche’s Genealogy of Morality for Journal of Moral Philosophy, Daniel Conway, Nietzsche’s Genealogy of Morality (London: Continuum 2008) (in preparation for Journal of Moral Philosophy http://mpj.sagepub.com/)
Lectures
2008–2009: Lecture series at Oxford, Faculty of Philosophy, Self and World from Kant to Nietzsche (Trinity 2009)
2007–2008: Lecture series at Oxford, Faculty of Philosophy, Nietzsche’s 'Birth of Tragedy' (Michaelmas 2007); Fichte and Early Romantic Philosophy (Trinity 2008)
2007–2008: Lecture series at Cambridge, Faculty of Philosophy Nietzsche’s 'Birth of Tragedy' (Michaelmas 2007)
I am working on …
'No to all things. Adorno and Early Romantic Philosophy' (draft)
'Nietzsche on the Efficacy of Feeling Free' (draft)
'The Idea of Becoming in Early Romantic Philosophy and Nietzsche' (draft)
'Multicultural Values - a Proposal'
Non-Reductive Models of Thought in European Philosophy
Select Presentations
May 2010 University of Geneva, Phileas: title tbc
Dec. 2009 Universiteit van Amsterdam, Faculty of Philosophy: Nietzsche on the conditions of new values
Oct. 2009 Gutes Wirtschaften, Conference at the European Business School, Schloss Reichartshausen, Wiesbaden (Response to R. P. Sieferle)
Sept. 2009 Nietzsche on Mind and Nature, St. Peter's College, Oxford: 'Nietzsche on the efficacy of feeling free'
Feb. 2009 Sylvia Naish Visiting Fellow Lecture at the IGRS in London http://igrs.sas.ac.uk/events/
Nov. 2008 Nietzsche's Transvaluation of Values, CRASSH, Cambridge: ‘Nietzsche's transvaluation of values - On the logical framework of the Umwerthung’.
Oct. 2008 Must Criticism be Constructive, Faculty of Philosophy and CRASSH, Cambridge (Response to Rüdiger Bittner).
May 2008 COST Action 32 Workshop, DEIT, University of Ancona, Italy: ‘Open Scholarly Communities on the Web – The Conditions of Possibility’.
Sept. 2005 Nietzsche on Time and History, 15th International Conference of the Friedrich Nietzsche Society of Great Britain and Ireland, Peterhouse, Cambridge: ‘Nietzsche’s Adualism’.
Aug. 2005 13th Annual Conference of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, Montreal, Canada. Special session on F.C. Beiser’s German Idealism: The Struggle against Subjectivsm: ‘The Innocence of Becoming in Early Romantic Philosophy and Nietzsche’.
Jan. 2005 Friedrich Schiller: Poetry, Drama, Ideas, Conference at the Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, London: ‘Oscillation versus Annihilation in Schiller’s Aesthetic Letters’.
Sept. 2003 Nietzsche, Art, and Aesthetics, 13th International Nietzsche Conference, Warwick University: ‘Re-reading Nietzsche’s Theory of Nihilism’.
Conference Organization
Nietzsche on Mind and Nature, St. Peter's College, Oxford (11-13 September 2009)
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Nietzsche on Time and History, Peterhouse, Cambridge (16-18 September 2005)
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