Jim Urpeth
Courses
Existentialism and Phenomenology
Nietzsche and Modern Philosophy
Fundamental Texts of Western Philosophy
Senior Lecturer in Philosophy
Recent Publications
Tel: 020 8331 8941
Email: j.r.urpeth@gre.ac.uk
Office: King William 339
Office Hours fpr 2008-09
Tuesday 2-4 pm
Wednesday 1 - 2 pm
Qualifications
BA Hons, Philosophy (East Anglia, 1983)
PhD, Philosophy ( Essex , 1989). [Dissertation on Heidegger's account of the relationship between language and being and its role in his conception of the 'overcoming of metaphysics'].
Research
Areas of Interest: Aesthetics, Philosophy of Religion, Philosophical Naturalism after Kant, the ontology of affectivity, immanence and sublimity.
Book:
Co-edited (with J. Lippitt): Nietzsche and the Divine ( Manchester : Clinamen Press, 2000) ISBN: 1-903083-12-5
Articles:
“Need, Denial and Abandonment: Heidegger and the Turn”, Philosophical Studies, vol. XXXIII, 1988–90, pp.176–196
“‘Noble Ascesis’: Between Nietzsche and Foucault”, New Nietzsche Studies, vol. 2, 3/4, 1998, pp. 65–91
“‘A Pessimism of Strength’: Nietzsche and the Tragic Sublime” in J. Lippitt (ed.): Nietzsche’s Futures (London: Macmillan, 1999) pp. 129–148
“The Vitalisation of Aesthetic Form: Kant, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Focillon” in S. Brewster, D. Owen, J. Joughin, R. Walker (eds): Inhuman Reflections: Thinking the Limits of the Human ( Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2000) pp. 72–87
“‘A Sacred Thrill’: Presentation and Affectivity in the ‘Analytic of the Sublime’” in A. Rehberg and R. Jones (eds): The Matter of Critique: Readings in Kant’s Philosophy ( Manchester : Clinamen Press, 2000) pp. 61–78
“‘Health’ and ‘Sickness’ in Religious Affectivity: Nietzsche, Otto, Bataille” in J. Lippitt and J. Urpeth (eds): Nietzsche and the Divine ( Manchester : Clinamen Press, 2000) pp. 147–168
“Religious Materialism: Bataille, Deleuze/Guattari and the Sacredness of Late Capital” in P. Goodchild (ed.): Difference in Philosophy of Religion ( Aldershot : Ashgate, 2003) pp. 171-186
“Nietzsche and the Rapture of Aesthetic Disinterestedness: A Response to Heidegger” in N. Martin (ed): Nietzsche and the German Tradition ( Bern : Peter Lang, 2003) pp. 215-236
“Animal Becomings” (Deleuze and Guattari sub-section, editor's introduction) in P. Atterton and M. Calarco (eds): Animal Philosophy, Ethics and Identity: Essential Readings in Continental Thought ( New York : Continuum, 2004), pp. 101-110.
Guest Editor:
Journal of Nietzsche Studies (no. 19, Spring 2000), “Nietzsche and Religion”.
Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology (vol. 37, no. 1, Jan. 2006), “Phenomenology and Religion”.
Recent Conference Papers:
“Nietzsche, Religion, Naturalism” ( Essex, 2003)
“Nietzsche’s Religious Naturalism” ( Warwick, 2004)
“Nietzsche’s Religious Naturalism” ( Dundee, 2004)
“Feeling Good: Affectivity, Meaning and Value in On the Genealogy of Morality” ( Sussex 2004)
“The Spiritual Identity of Material Life” ( Lancaster 2004)
Other:
Organiser (on behalf of the Friedrich Nietzsche Society) of the ‘Nietzsche and Religion’ conference, University of Greenwich, 1998
Organiser (on behalf of the British Society for Phenomenology) of the 'Questioning Religion' conference, University of Greenwich, 2003
Executive Committee, British Society for Phenomenology
Chair, Friedrich Nietzsche Society ( www.fns.org.uk)
Regular reviewer of submissions and proposals for a number of journals and publishers.
Selected courses taught (1990 -)
Undergraduate:
Existentialism and Phenomenology (Camus, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Sartre, Tolstoy)
Foundations of Western Philosophy (Plato and Aristotle)
Knowledge and its Limits (Descartes, Hume, Kant, Nietzsche)
Modern European Philosophy (Nietzsche, Bergson, Bataille, Foucault)
Philosophical Ethics (Hume, Kant, Schopenhauer, Mill)
Philosophy of Art (Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Deleuze)
Philosophy of Religion (Hume, Nietzsche, James, Freud, Otto, Bataille, Eliade)
Bergson (Matter and Memory)
Hegel (Phenomenology of Spirit)
Kant (Critique of Pure Reason; Prolegomena to any Future Metaphysics)
Nietzsche (On the Genealogy of Morality; The Birth of Tragedy; Thus Spoke Zarathustra; The Will to Power)
Schopenhauer (The World as Will and Representation, Vol. One)
MA:
Kant (Critique of Practical Reason, Critique of Judgment)
Nietzsche (The Gay Science)
Administrative Roles
Internal: BA Philosophy/Combinations Programme Leader (1993-2002)
PhD Tutor/Programme Leader (2005 -)
External: External Examiner (undergraduate) - Philosophy, Anglia Ruskin University (2005 -)
MPhil/PhD External Examiner ( Sussex, 2000; Essex, 2001; Dundee, 2004; New South Wales, 2005)
External Assessor, Killam Research Fellowship Scheme, Canada Council for the Arts (2004)
External Assessor, Revalidation Comm.: BA Philosophy, Middlesex University (2003)
External Assessor, Validation Comm.: MA Continental Philosophy, University of Staffs (1995)