James S. Pearson
I received my PhD from Leiden University (cum laude, 2018) and my MA from the University of Warwick (2011). I previously worked at the University of Tartu (Estonia) as a research fellow in practical philosophy (2019–2022), and at the University of Leiden as a lecturer in philosophy (2017–2019). My research focusses on three areas of philosophy: 1. political theory (especially political realism); 2. Kantian and post-Kantian German philosophy (especially Nietzsche); and 3. aesthetics (especially the philosophy of creativity). I’m particularly interested in applying insights from the modern German tradition to problems in contemporary Anglo-American political theory.
Selected Publications
Books
2022. Nietzsche on Conflict, Struggle and War (Cambridge University Press).
Edited Books
2018. Conflict and Contest in Nietzsche’s Philosophy (Bloomsbury).
(Co-edited with Herman Siemens.)
Peer-Reviewed Articles
- “Warding off the Evil Eye: Peer Envy in Rawls’s Just Society” Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie. https://doi.org/10.1515/agph-2022-0048
2022. “Realism in the Ethics of Immigration,” Philosophy and Social Criticism, DOI: 10.1177/01914537221079676
2020. “The Value of Malevolent Creativity,” Journal of Value Inquiry, DOI: 10.1007/s10790-020-09741-6.
2019. “United we Stand, Divided we Fall. The Early Nietzsche on the Struggle for Organisation,” Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 49(1): 508–533.
2018. “Nietzsche on the Necessity of Repression,” Inquiry, DOI: 10.1080/0020174X.2018.1529618.
2018. “Nietzsche on the Sources of Agonal Moderation,” Journal of Nietzsche Studies, 49(1): 101–129.
2016. “On Catharsis, Conflict and the Coherence of Nietzsche’s Agonism,” Nietzsche-Studien, 45(1): 3–32.
2016. “Wittgenstein and the Utility of Disagreement,” Social Theory and Practice, 42(1):1–31.
2015. “Language, Subjectivity and the Agon: A Comparative Study of Nietzsche and Lyotard,” Logoi, 1(3): 76–101.
2013. “Total Narcissism and the Uncanny: A New Interpretation of E.T.A. Hoffmann’s ‘The Sandman,’” Angelaki, 18(2): 17–27.
2012. “Finding What Will Suffice: Stevens and the Post-Hegelian Evaluation of Art,” The Wallace Stevens Journal, 36(2): 242–259.
Book Reviews
2021. “Razvan, I., The Body in Spinoza and Nietzsche,” Global Intellectual History. DOI: 10.1080/23801883.2021.1979770.
2013. “João Constâncio and Maria João Mayer Branco (eds.), Nietzsche on Instinct and Language,” Journal of Nietzsche Studies, 44(1): 115–117.
Popular
2016. How to Win the War on War. Available from: http://www.e-ir.info/2015/06/02/how-to-win-the-war-on-war/. [24 November 2016].
Chapters in Edited Books
2018. “Unity in Strife: Nietzsche, Heraclitus and Schopenhauer,” in James S. Pearson and Herman Siemens (eds.), Conflict and Contest in Nietzsche’s Philosophy (Bloomsbury, 2018), 63–88.