James PearsonJames Pearson is a Lecturer in Philosophy at Leiden University. He recently completed his PhD at Leiden University on Nietzsche’s philosophy of conflict. He is currently working on the relation of nineteenth-century German philosophy to problems in contemporary political theory. His dissertation performs a critique of Nietzsche’s conception of conflict, and highlights the insufficiency of agonistic and militaristic interpretations of his thought. Aside from Nietzsche, he has published work on Hegel, Freud and Wittgenstein. Recent publications include ‘Language, Subjectivity and the Agon: A Comparative Study of Nietzsche and Lyotard’, Logoi, 1 (3) (2015); ‘On Catharsis, Conflict and the Coherence of Nietzsche’s Agonism’, Nietzsche-Studien, 45 (1) (2016); ‘Wittgenstein and the Utility of Disagreement’, Social Theory & Practice, 41 (4) (2016); ‘Nietzsche on the Sources of Agonal Moderation’, Journal of Nietzsche Studies, 49 (1) (2018). Read More Read Less