Board of Directors
Get to know our team:
Yunus Tuncel
Board Chair
Yunus Tuncel is a co-founder of the Nietzsche Circle and is the Editor-in-Chief of its electronic journal, The Agonist. He is the author of Towards a Genealogy of Spectacle (Eye Corner Press, 2011), Agon in Nietzsche (Marquette University Press, 2013), Emotion in Sports (Routledge, 2019), and Nietzsche on Human Emotions (Schwabe, 2021) and the editor of Nietzsche and Transhumanism (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017) and one of the co-editors of Nietzsche and Music(Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2022).
Luke Trusso
Executive Director
Luke Trusso has been an Adjunct Instructor in the Philosophy and Religion Department at NJCU since 2009, and an Adjunct Lecturer in the Liberal Studies Department at NYU since 2014. He has an MA in English Literature from SUNY Buffalo, and a MA in Philosophy from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, PA. His research interests include Environmental Aesthetics, Nietzsche Scholarship, Cultural Criticism, American Literature, and Psychoanalysis.
Seth Binsted
Public Relations
Seth Binsted studied philosophy in the graduate department at Stony Brook University and will begin teaching at James Madison University starting fall 2021. His academic work has focused on both Nietzsche and phenomenological philosophy. He also works as a photographer and visual artist, and in both areas, he is primarily interested in the variegated intersections between philosophy and the imagination. More specifically, his research has focused on aesthetics and architecture, technology, and animals.
Anthony Kosar
Vice Chair
Anthony Kosar works in the history of philosophy and has long-standing interests in European intellectual history, cultural and historical philosophy (Geschichtsphilosophie), ethics, and the philosophies of Friedrich Nietzsche. His writing on these topics, which he has presented at international conferences abroad, have been published in the series Nietzsche-Lekturen. He is currently a doctoral candidate in Philosophy at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat Freiburg with a dissertation on Nietzsche, the "metaphyscis of language" and morality. He lives in New Jersey with his wife and their two sons.