Dr Richard Elliott

Overview

Biography

Richard Elliott is Lecturer in European Philosophy, in the School of Historical Studies. Before that, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow for the British Society for the History of Philosophy.

Web profiles

• Academia.edu Profile

Research

Research overview

Post-Kantian European philosophy, especially:

-Friedrich Nietzsche’s contributions to topics in ethics, moral psychology and philosophical psychology

-The later Martin Heidegger (topics including nihilism, the character of metaphysics and its supposed 'overcoming', and the role of Nietzsche as the "last metaphysician"

-Forms of consciousness in Theodor Adorno

-Franz Fanon and the possibility of a 'standpoint phenomenology'

-The function and status of ‘forms of life’ in the later Ludwig Wittgenstein

Supervision and teaching

Supervision

I am currently supervising students at both undergraduate and graduate levels. Topics include:

-Heidegger's interpretation of Nietzsche's eternal recurrence

-The possibility of presuppositionless philosophy in Hegel's Phenomenology

-The function of the Apollonian/Dionysian in Nietzsche

-The metaethical status of value pluralism in Isaiah Berlin 

-Foucault and the 'genealogy of homelessness'

-Kinds of political freedom in the works of Foucault

-Virtue in Spinoza

Teaching

Teaching modules

• The Philosophy of Nietzsche (Level 7) (SSPL114S7)
• Research in Practical Philosophy (SSPL158S7)
• Themes in Twentieth-Century French and German Philosophy (Level 7) (SSPL267S7)
• Problems of Explanation and Interpretation (SSPO271S5)

Publications

External Repositories