Board of Directors

Rainer J. Hanshe, Executive Director

Hanshe is a novelist whose other works include aphorisms, poetry, and essays. He is seeking a publisher for his first novel, The Acolytes, and is currently at work on his second, “The Abdication.” Hanshe is a graduate of the New School and is pursuing his PhD in English at CUNY Graduate Center. He is interested in philosophy and all forms of aesthetics and how they may intersect, as well as consciousness and the body, space, time, and morality.

 

Research interests include German and English Romanticism, philosophy (ancient Greek, Nietzsche), aesthetics (history of aesthetics, with a particular emphasis on the beautiful and the sublime), poetics (poetry and poetic theory from the 19th to the 20th century), the sacred in the aftermath of the death of God, and modernist literature. He is a cofounder of the Nietzsche Circle and serves as one of the editors of its journal, The Agonist. Along with Mark Daniel Cohen, he also edits the journal Hyperion: On the Future of Aesthetics.

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Yunus Tuncel, Ph.D.

Yunus is a co-founder of the Nietzsche Circle. Doctoral dissertation on Nietzsche’s philosophy, “The Principle of Agon in Nietzsche’s Thought.” (The New School for Social Research, 2000). Dr. Tuncel has been teaching philosophy at the New School; courses taught there include: Introduction to Nietzsche; Notions of Power from Nietzsche to Foucault; Ecstasy, Taboo, and Transgression; The Gay Science: Legacy of the Troubadours; and Wagner and Nietzsche: A Dialogue on Art and Culture.

He has recently finished a book on Nietzsche, A Journey in Nietzsche’s Critique of Morality, for which he is seeking a publisher. His areas of research are art, culture, myth, and spectacle. He is interested in the fusion of art and philosophy in various cultural formations.

 

Jim Crocamo

Jim Crocamo is a Library Specialist and Supervisor at Columbia University Libraries, NY. He received a B.A. in English Literature with a concentration in Film Studies from Temple University in Philadelphia, and has since studied film at Columbia as well. His engagement with Nietzsche stemmed from his readings in philosophy, literature, and political thought wherein he found frequent affinities between the works he was interested in and Nietzsche’s thought. His current interests include film/video as a medium for exploring theories of time and consciousness, post-modern anarchism, and the history of the relationships between art, spirituality and philosophy and the evolution of consciousness.

David Kilpatrick, Ph.D.

David Kilpatrick is Assistant Professor of Literature, Language and Communication at Mercy College, NY. He earned his Ph.D. in comparative literature and M.A. in philosophy at Binghamton (SUNY). His areas of specialization are violence and representation, modernism, history of drama and the theory of criticism. He has published on Nietzsche, Bataille, Mishima, Nitsch, Barker, and is a theater critic for The Brooklyn Rail.

Sebastian Isler

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