Aaron Ridley | |
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Born | 31 July 1962 61) | (age
Academic background | |
Education | University of Cambridge (PhD) |
Thesis | Expression in music (1990) |
Academic work | |
Discipline | philosophy |
Institutions | University of Southampton |
Aaron Ridley (born 31 July 1962) is a British philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southampton. He is known for his works on aesthetics,particularly the philosophy of music,and on Nietzsche. [1] [2] [3] [4]
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a German philosopher. He began his career as a classical philologist before turning to philosophy. He became the youngest person to hold the Chair of Classical Philology at the University of Basel in 1869 at the age of 24,but resigned in 1879 due to health problems that plagued him most of his life;he completed much of his core writing in the following decade. In 1889,at age 44,he suffered a collapse and afterward a complete loss of his mental faculties,with paralysis and probably vascular dementia. He lived his remaining years in the care of his mother until her death in 1897 and then with his sister Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche. Nietzsche died in 1900,after experiencing pneumonia and multiple strokes.
Nihilism is a family of views within philosophy that rejects generally accepted or fundamental aspects of human existence,such as knowledge,morality,or meaning. The term was popularized by Ivan Turgenev and more specifically by his character Bazarov in the novel Fathers and Sons.
Eternal return is a philosophical concept which states that time repeats itself in an infinite loop,and that exactly the same events will continue to occur in exactly the same way,over and over again,for eternity.
Arthur Coleman Danto was an American art critic,philosopher,and professor at Columbia University. He was best known for having been a long-time art critic for The Nation and for his work in philosophical aesthetics and philosophy of history,though he contributed significantly to a number of fields,including the philosophy of action. His interests included thought,feeling,philosophy of art,theories of representation,philosophical psychology,Hegel's aesthetics,and the philosophers Friedrich Nietzsche and Jean-Paul Sartre.
Aesthetics of music is a branch of philosophy that deals with the nature of art,beauty and taste in music,and with the creation or appreciation of beauty in music. In the pre-modern tradition,the aesthetics of music or musical aesthetics explored the mathematical and cosmological dimensions of rhythmic and harmonic organization. In the eighteenth century,focus shifted to the experience of hearing music,and thus to questions about its beauty and human enjoyment of music. The origin of this philosophic shift is sometimes attributed to Baumgarten in the 18th century,followed by Kant.
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Christopher Janaway is a philosopher and author. He earned degrees from the University of Oxford. Before moving to Southampton in 2005,Janaway taught at the University of Sydney and Birkbeck,University of London. His recent research has been on Arthur Schopenhauer,Friedrich Nietzsche and aesthetics. His 2007 book Beyond Selflessness:Reading Nietzsche's Genealogy focuses on a critical examination of Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morals. Janaway currently lectures at the University of Southampton,which in the past has included a module focusing on Nietzsche's Genealogy. That module is now convened by Janaway's colleague,Aaron Ridley.
Sarah Kofman was a French philosopher.
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Espen Hammer is Professor of Philosophy at Temple University. Focusing on modern European thought from Kant and Hegel to Adorno and Heidegger,Hammer’s research includes critical theory,Wittgenstein and ordinary language philosophy,phenomenology,German idealism,social and political theory,and aesthetics. He has also written widely on the philosophy of literature and taken a special interest in the question of temporality.
Brian Leiter is an American philosopher and legal scholar who is Karl N. Llewellyn Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Chicago Law School and founder and Director of Chicago's Center for Law,Philosophy &Human Values. A review in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews described Leiter as "one of the most influential legal philosophers of our time",while a review in The Journal of Nietzsche Studies described Leiter's book Nietzsche on Morality (2002) as "arguably the most important book on Nietzsche's philosophy in the past twenty years."
Simon Glendinning is an English philosopher. Glendinning is Professor of European Philosophy and Head of department in the European Institute at the London School of Economics.
Julian Padraic Young is an American philosopher and William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Humanities at Wake Forest University. He is known for his expertise on post-Kantian philosophy.
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Gordon Graham (1949) is Chair of the Edinburgh Sacred Arts Foundation,Emeritus Professor of Philosophy and the Arts at Princeton Theological Seminary in the USA,and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh,Scotland's premier academy of science and letters.
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The Mask of Enlightenment:Nietzsche’s Zarathustra is a 1995 book by Stanley Rosen with a foreword by Michael Allen Gillespie in which the author provides a detailed commentary on Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra.