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Paul S. Loeb

Professor
Wyatt 320
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Education

BA, Cornell University, 1981
PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 1991


Areas of Interest

History of Philosophy (Ancient Philosophy, Kant, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Deleuze), Political Theory,  Philosophy of Time, Philosophy of Art (film, literature), Posthumanism


Selected Papers and Publications 

"Identity and Eternal Recurrence", in A Companion to Nietzsche, ed. Keith Ansell Pearson ed., 171-188, Blackwell (2005)  

"Finding the Übermensch in Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morality", in The Journal of Nietzsche Studies, Issue 30 (2005). Excerpted in Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morals: Critical Essays, ed. Christa Davis Acampora, Rowman & Littlefield (2006)
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Recent Professional Activities

The Death of Nietzsche's Zarathustra (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2009)

Translation in progress (with David F. Tinsley) of Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra and Unpublished Fragments from the Period of Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Vols 7, 14, 15 of The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche, Stanford University Press)
 

Recent Courses

PHIL101 - Introduction to Philosophy (Spring 2006)
PHIL102 - The Posthuman Future (Fall 2006)
PHIL215 - Ancient Philosophy (Fall 2006, Fall 2007)
PHIL243 - Aesthetics (Fall 2007)
PHIL353 - Philosophy and Film (Spring 2007)
PHIL366 - Kant (Spring 2006)
PHIL387 - Recent Continental Philosophy (Spring 2007)
PHIL402 - Topics in History of Philosophy: Nietzsche (Spring 2006)
HON214 - Social Scientific Approaches to Knowing (Fall 2006, Fall 2007)
STS388 - The Ethics of Human Enhancement (Spring 2007)

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