Dr James Luchte BS, PhD (Essex)

Contact Details

School of Cultural Studies
Tel: 01570 424715 (215)
E-mail: j.luchte@trinitysaintdavid.ac.uk

Location

Arts Building

Campus

Lampeter Campus

Job Title

Lecturer of Philosophy

Role in the University

Lecturer of Philosophy, and Programme Co-ordinator for the MA in European Philosophy

Member of

The British Society of Phenomenology, The Society for Phenomenological and Existential Philosophy, The Friedrich Nietzsche Society, The American Philosophical Association, and is on the Board of Advisors of the Nietzsche Circle.

Academic Interests

His research interests include:

The History of Continental and European Philosophy
Archaic Philosophy
Early German Romanticism: Goethe, Hölderlin, Novalis, Schlegel
Kant and German Idealism: Kant, Fichte, Schelling, Hegel
American Transcendentalism
Nietzsche
Phenomenology and Existentialism: Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty
The Kinship of Poetry, Philosophy, and Literature
Post-structuralism: Bataille, Foucault, Deleuze, and Derrida
Wittgenstein and the Continental tradition
Contemporary Continental Political Philosophy

James Luchte offers specialist research supervision in any of these areas on an MPHIL and PHD level.

Publications

Books

The Peacock and the Buffalo: The Poetry of Nietzsche, Bi-Lingual Second Edition, translator, Continuum Publishing (May 2010)

Pythagoras and the Doctrine of Transmigration: Wandering Souls, Continuum Publishing, (October, 2009).

Heidegger's Early Philosophy: The Phenomenology of Ecstatic Temporality, Continuum Publishing, (August, 2008).

Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra: Before Sunrise, Editor, Continuum Publishing, (October, 2008).

Kant's Critique of Pure Reason: A Reader's Guide, Continuum Publishing, (July, 2007).

The Peacock and the Buffalo: The Poetry of Nietzsche, translator, Lampeter: Fire & Ice Publishing (January, 2004).

Articles

'Marx and the Sacred', Journal of Church and State, 51 (2009), 413-437

'Zarathustra and the Children of Abraham,' Pli: The Warwick Journal of Philosophy, Volume 20, pp. 195-225 and The Agonist, Volume 2, Number 2 (2009)

'Under the Aspect of Time ("sub specie temporis"): Heidegger, Wittgenstein, and the Place of the Nothing,' Philosophy Today, Volume 53, Number 2 (Spring, 2009)

'The Body of Sublime Knowledge: The Aesthetic Phenomenology of Arthur Schopenhauer,' Heythrop Journal, Volume 50, Number 2, pp. 228-242 (Spring, 2009)

'The Wreckage of Stars: Nietzsche and the Ecstasy of Poetry,' Nietzsche Circle, 2007, <http://www.nietzschecircle.com/essayArchive8.html>

'Martin Heidegger and Rudolf Carnap: Radical Phenomenology, Logical Positivism and the Roots of the Continental/Analytic Divide,' Philosophy Today, Vol. 51, No. 3, 241-260 (Fall, 2007)

'Mathesis and Analysis: Finitude and the Infinite in the Monadology of Leibniz,' Heythrop Journal, Volume 47, Number 4, pp. 519-543 (October, 2006)

'Makeshift: Phenomenology of Original Temporality,' Philosophy Today, DePaul University, Vol. 47, No. 3, pp. 252-257 (Fall, 2003)