James Luchte is Lecturer of Philosophy and Programme Coordinator of the MA in European Philosophy at the University of Wales, Lampeter, UK. His recent books include 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), Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason: A Reader’s Guide (2007), and a bi-lingual second edition of The Peacock and the Buffalo: The Poetry of Nietzsche, to be published in the Spring of 2010. He has also published numerous articles on various topics in European and Continental philosophy and is engaged in debates regarding the Analytic/Continental divide.
His current research interests are:
The History of Continental and European Philosophy
Archaic Philosophy
Early German Romanticism: Goethe, Heine, Hölderlin, Novalis
Kant and German Idealism: Kant, Fichte, Schelling, Hegel
American Transcendentalism
Nietzsche
Phenomenology and Existentialism: Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty
The Kinship of Poetry, Philosophy, and Literature
Post-structuralism: Bataille, Foucault, Deleuze, and Derrida
Wittgenstein and the Continental tradition
Contemporary Continental Political Philosophy
He is also involved in research and other activities related to film, and is currently researching horror, comedy and horror/comedy films in light not only of Julia Kristeva’ Powers of Horror and Heidegger’s indication of horror as a fundamental mood in the era of technological nihilism, but also in light of Nietzsche and Bataille’s laughter in the face of Being.
