Board of Directors

Rainer J. Hanshe, Executive Director

Hanshe is a writer whose texts include aphorisms, plays, poetry, essays, and novels. His most recent work is his unpublished novel The Acolytes. Now, he is working on his second novel, tentatively titled The Abdication. With Yunus Tuncel, he is developing a screenplay about a fictional encounter between Dostoevsky and Nietzsche in Baden-Baden. With Alan Rosenberg, he is working on an essay that concerns a marginalized aspect of Nietzsche’s thought.

Hanshe is a graduate of the New School and is pursuing his MA/PhD at CUNY Graduate Center. He is interested in philosophy and all forms of aesthetics and how they may intersect, as well as consciousness and the body, space, time, and morality. Of particular concern are notions of the sublime, the ecstatic, and a reconception of the sacred in the aftermath of the death of God. He is a co-founder of the Nietzsche Circle and, along with Mark Daniel Cohen, edits Hyperion: On the Future of Aesthetics.

Yunus Tuncel, Ph.D.

Yunus is a co-founder of the Nietzsche Circle. Doctoral dissertation on Nietzsche’s philosophy, “The Principle of Agon in Nietzsche’s Thought.” (The New School for Social Research, 2000). Dr. Tuncel has been teaching philosophy at the New School; courses taught there include: Introduction to Nietzsche; Notions of Power from Nietzsche to Foucault; Ecstasy, Taboo, and Transgression; The Gay Science: Legacy of the Troubadours; and Wagner and Nietzsche: A Dialogue on Art and Culture.

He has recently finished a book on Nietzsche, A Journey in Nietzsche’s Critique of Morality, for which he is seeking a publisher. His areas of research are art, culture, myth, and spectacle. He is interested in the fusion of art and philosophy in various cultural formations.

David Kilpatrick, Ph.D.

David Kilpatrick is Assistant Professor of Literature, Language and Communication at Mercy College, NY. He earned his Ph.D. in comparative literature and M.A. in philosophy at Binghamton (SUNY). His areas of specialization are violence and representation, modernism, history of drama and the theory of criticism. He has published on Nietzsche, Bataille, Mishima, Nitsch, Barker, and is a theater critic for The Brooklyn Rail.

Jim Crocamo

Jim Crocamo is a Library Specialist and Supervisor at Columbia University Libraries, NY. He received a B.A. in English Literature with a concentration in Film Studies from Temple University in Philadelphia, and has since studied film at Columbia as well. His engagement with Nietzsche stemmed from his readings in philosophy, literature, and political thought wherein he found frequent affinities between the works he was interested in and Nietzsche’s thought. His current interests include film/video as a medium for exploring theories of time and consciousness, post-modern anarchism, and the history of the relationships between art, spirituality and philosophy and the evolution of consciousness.

Corbin J. Morris, Chairperson

Corbin is a cofounder of the Nietzsche Circle. A recent graduate of NYU with a degree in Linguistics, he has quickly learned the applicability of such (that is to say, none) and is currently working in the field of law. Corbin is a long-time Nietzsche reader, although he would not go so far as to tattoo the man’s face on his arm. His other interests include cognitive studies, the redistribution of wealth, honest art, and conceptions of the urban utopia. One day, Corbin would like to enact a positive change, perhaps as the good kind of lawyer or social revolutionary. He finds idealism and its derivatives distasteful.

Sebastian Isler

Alan Rosenberg

Rosenberg is Professor of Philosophy at Queens College of the City University of New York. His scholarly work has focused on philosophical issues relating to the Holocaust, philosophical issues that arise in connection to psychoanalysis, as well as key themes in Continental Philosophy, value theory, and philosophy of the social sciences. Rosenberg is the co-author of over 80 journal articles and book chapters. He is also the co-editor of numerous books including Echoes From the Holocaust: Philosophical Reflections on a Dark Time (Temple University Press, 1988); Healing Their Wounds: Psychotherapy and Holocaust Survivors (Praeger, 1989); Psychoanalytic Versions of the Human Condition (New York University Press, 1998); Contemporary Portrayals of Auschwitz: Philosophical Challenges (Prometheus Books, 2000); Foucault and Heidegger: Critical Encounters (University of Minnesota Press, 2003); Experiments in Thinking the Holocaust: Auschwitz, Modernity and Philosophy (Polish edition: Wydawnicto Naukowe “Scholar,” 2004); and Reading Nietzsche at the Margins (Purdue University Press, 2008). For the past three years, Rosenberg has served as co-editor of the electronic journal Foucault Studies, and as of March 2007 has become the managing editor.

If anyone is interested in contributing work to the site, please contact the Executive Director of the Nietzsche Circle, Rainer J. Hanshe at “ncinfo AT nietzschecircle DOT com.”