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Research Biography
Professor Vanessa Lemm is the Vice President and Executive Dean of the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences. Her prior roles include Head of the School of Humanities and Languages at the University of New South Wales and Director of the Institute of Humanities at the Diego Portales University in Santiago de Chile. She is an internationally recognised expert on the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche and has published widely on Nietzsche, biopolitics, and contemporary political philosophy. Her book Homo Natura: Nietzsche, Philosophical Anthropology and Biopolitics is forthcoming with Edinburgh University Press in March 2020. She is the author of Nietzsche's Animal Philosophy: Culture, Politics and the Animality of the Human Being (Fordham University Press, 2009), Nietzsche y el pensamiento politico contemporáneo (Fondo de cultura económica, 2013) and editor of five books on Nietzsche, Foucault and Hegel. She is the editor of the flagship journal, Nietzsche-Studien (De Gruyter) and co-founder of biopolitica.org, an international research network on biopolitics. She has had academic appointments in Chile, Germany and the USA. She is fluent in five languages and is an advocate for diversity and inclusion. Her work has been translated into six languages.
Research Interests
Friedrich Nietzsche, Political Philosophy, Philosophical Anthropology, Ancient Cynicism, Theories of Community and Justice, Critical Theory, Poststructuralism, Contemporary French and Italian Philosophy, Biopolitics, Environmental Philosophy, Naturalism and Posthumanism.
Education/Academic qualification
PhD, New School for Social Research
1998 → 2002
Award Date: 1 Jan 2002
Postgraduate Certificate, Université de Paris I - Panthéon-Sorbonne
1993 → 1994
Award Date: 1 Jan 1994
Master, King's College London
1992 → 1993
Award Date: 1 Jan 1993
Bachelor, Université de Paris I - Panthéon-Sorbonne
1991 → 1992
Graduate Certificate, Université de Paris I - Panthéon-Sorbonne
1989 → 1991
Keywords
- B Philosophy (General)
- BJ Ethics
- JC Political theory
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Cultura e economia em Nietzsche
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Deconstructing the human: Ludwig Binswanger on Homo Natura in Nietzsche and Freud
Lemm, V., 24 Jan 2019, Nietzsche and The Antichrist: Religion, Politics, and Culture in Late Modernity. Conway, D. (ed.). 1 ed. New York: Bloomsbury, p. 205-227 23 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Friedrich Nietzsche on Human Nature: Between Philosophical Anthropology and Animal Studies
Lemm, V., Sep 2018, Animals, Animality, and Literature. Boehrer, B., Hand, M. & Massumi, B. (eds.). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, p. 197-214 18 p. (Cambridge critical concepts).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Truth, Embodiment, and Probity (Redlichkeit) in Nietzsche
Lemm, V., 2018, Nietzsche on Conciousness and the Embodied Mind. De Gruyter, p. 289-308 20 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Who is Nietzsche's Homo Natura? Self-Knowledge, Probity and the Metamorphoses of the Human Being in ,,Beyond Good and Evil‘‘ 230
Lemm, V., 27 Apr 2018, In : Internationales Jahrbuch für philosophische Anthropologie. 7, 1, p. 33-50 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article