James Luchte lives in West Wales with his family and friends. He is Senior Lecturer of Philosophy and Programme Coordinator for the MA in European Philosophy at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David.
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His scholarly books include Early Greek Thought: Before the Dawn (2011), The Peacock and the Buffalo: The Poetry of Nietzsche (bi-lingual second edition, 2010), Pythagoras and the Doctrine of Transmigration (2009), Heidegger’s Early Philosophy: The Phenomenology of Ecstatic Temporality (2008), Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra: Before Sunrise (2008), and Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason (2007).
For a closer look at his books, please visit his page at Continuum International Publishing.
He has also published many articles and has given numerous conference papers on various topics in European and Continental philosophy, many of which are available on this site.
There are also various of his essays and poetry, translated by Dr. Wang Shunning of the University of Shanghai, which have been published in Chinese Journals and newspapers.
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His persistent research interests include
Archaic Thought
The History of Continental and European Philosophy
Kant and German Idealism: Kant, Fichte, Schelling, Hegel, Schopenhauer
Romanticism, early German and British: Goethe, Heine, Hölderlin, Novalis, Schlegel, Wordsworth, Shelley, Byron, and Coleridge, the pre-Raphaelites
American Transcendentalism
Nietzsche
Phenomenology and Existentialism: Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, Merleau- Ponty
The Kinship of Poetry, Philosophy, and Literature
Post-structuralism: Bataille, Lacan, Foucault, Deleuze, Derrida, Iriguray, Kristeva
Wittgenstein and the Continental tradition
Contemporary Continental Political Philosophy
Philosophy and Film: Cinema, Comedy, Horror, Exploitation, Grindhouse
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To contact James Luchte regarding these research areas for supervision, please write to j.luchte@tsd.ac.uk
