Joseph Ward
DPhil (Sussex)
E-mail: joseph.ward@ucd.ie
Research interests: Nietzsche, Kant, Heidegger, phenomenology, aesthetics and philosophy of literature.
My BA and MA were both in English literature, but I had become increasingly interested in philosophy in general and Nietzsche in particular, so for my DPhil I planned a thesis on Nietzsche. This argues that the concept of 'genealogy' has been distorted in the course of readings by Deleuze, Foucault and others into a pseudo-concept supposedly capturing Nietzsche's entire philosophy. My current project, a two-year research fellowship funded by the IRCHSS on Nietzsche and truth, developed out of this thesis. Alongside Nietzsche I have developed research interests in the phenomenological tradition and in aesthetics. I am currently working on two papers: one dealing with the schemata of Nietzsche's values and one on Heidegger, art and the beautiful.
Publications
‘Revisiting Nietzsche et la Philosophie: Gilles Deleuze on force and eternal return.’ Angelaki, Vol. 15 no. 2 (August 2010)
'Nietzsche's value conflict: culture, individual, synthesis.' Journal of Nietzsche Studies (Spring 2011)
'The "little independent clockwork": Nietzsche on science and the will.' Nietzsches Wissenschaftsphilosophie. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter (2011)
'Review: Tsarina Doyle, Nietzsche on Epistemology and Metaphysics.' International Journal of Philosophical Studies (2011)
'Life, the unhistorical, the suprahistorical: Nietzsche on history' International Journal of Philosophical Studies (forthcoming 2012)