Dr. H.W. (Herman) Siemens

Position:
  • Assistant Professor


Telephone number: +31 (0)71 527 7040
E-Mail: h.w.siemens@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Faculty / Department: Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen, Instituut voor Wijsbegeerte
Office Address: Witte Singel-complex
Witte Singel 25/M. de Vrieshof 4
2311 BZ Leiden
Room number 014A

Herman Siemens teaches modern philosophy, with emphasis on the self-understanding of modernity developed in the philosophy of the Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment. He has published numerous articles in his area of specialisation, Nietzsche and post-Nietzschean thought. Since 1998 he has been working together with other Nietzsche scholars on the Nietzsche Dictionary project, based at the Radboud University (Nijmegen). He has also been conducting his own research into Nietzsche’s concept of the agon, an ideal of limited conflict derived from Greek Antiquity. He is currently completing a monograph on the agon, and a collection of essays based on his dictionary work. His present research is focused on three areas: the viability of Nietzsche’s ‘ontology’ of conflict and its ethical and political implications for the present; the problem of normativity within a naturalistic framework that calls for a dynamic, pluralistic concept of law; and the feasibility of a relational ethics grounded not in a concept of the individual, but in a social ontology of power-relations.

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