Herman Siemens

Herman Werner Siemens (born December 9, 1963 in Cali , Colombia ) is an Italian - Canadian philosopher . The specialist in Nietzsche's thinking teaches as an associate professor at the University of Leiden .

Life

Siemens obtained a Bachelor of Science degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science in 1985 . In 1993 he obtained his doctorate in philosophy at the University of Essex in Colchester with a dissertation that illuminates Nietzsche's relationship to Socrates. He initially taught at the University of Essex before accepting a position as Assistant Professor of Intellectual History at the East Mediterranean University in Gazimağusa in 1994. In 1997 and 1998 he worked for the Queen Mary University of London . From 1998 he was assistant to Paul van Tongeren at Radboud University Nijmegen . He has been teaching at Leiden University since 2003.

Herman Siemens has been President of the Friedrich Nietzsche Society of Great Britain and Ireland since 2008 . In 2011 he was one of the founders of the Center for Political Philosophy . In 2013 he was invited to the Universidad Diego Portales in Santiago de Chile as a visiting professor .

Siemens is particularly known for philosophical studies and reference works on Friedrich Nietzsche. He has also emerged as the organizer of important international Nietzsche research conferences.

Fonts (selection)

• Nietzsche, Power and Politics. Rethinking Nietzsche's Legacy for Political Thought . (with Vasti Roodt) Berlin and New York: de Gruyter 2008, ISBN 978-3-11-020237-3
• European / Supra-European: Cultural Encounters in Nietzsche's Philosophy . (with Marco Brusotti, Michael McNeal and Corinna Schubert). Berlin and New York: de Gruyter 2020, ISBN 978-3-11-060504-4
• Nietzsche, Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics . (volume I of series: Nietzsche's Engagements with Kant and the Kantian Legacy (co-editors: Brussotti M., Bailey T., Constancio J.) no. I. London: Bloomsbury 2017
• Nietzsche Dictionary: Abbreviatur - simply . (with Paul van Tongeren , Gerd Schank ), Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter 2004
• Action, Performance and freedom in Hannah Arendt and Fr. Nietzsche , International Studies in Philosophy 37 (2), pp. 225–245
• 'The first Transvaluation of all Values: Nietzsche's Agon with Socrates in The Birth of Tragedy'. In: Gudrun von Tevenar (Ed.) Nietzsche and Ethics . Bern 2007, pp. 171–196
• Revaluation: Nietzsche's' war-praxis' and the problem of Yes-Saying and No-Saying in Ecce Homo ', Nietzsche Studies 38 (2009): 182-206

Web links

• Official website
• Literature by and about Herman Siemens in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Life dates and career after the website at the University of Leiden
2. ↑ Socrates' Hesitation: Agonal Critique and Creativity in Nietzsche's Early Thought (1869-1875) . University of Essex 1993
3. ^ Eg Nietzsche's Use of Language (Leiden, January 22-26 , 2007) and Nietzsche as Kantian? Reading the Sovereign Individual on Freedom and the Will (Leiden February 10-11, 2001).