Bartholomew Ryan

Bartholomew Ryan is a philosophy researcher and coordinator of the CultureLab at the Nova Institute of Philosophy (IFILNOVA) at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa. His academic and creative works orbit around the central motif of ‘transformation’ and the plurality of the subject which takes into account the masks, journeys and (multiple) identities that define the modern human condition. Amongst his various publications, his books include Faces of the Self: Autobiography, Confession, Therapy (co-editor, 2019), Nietzsche and Pessoa: Ensaios (co-editor, 2016), Nietzsche and the Problem of Subjectivity (co-editor, 2015), and Kierkegaard's Indirect Politics: Interludes with Lukács, Schmitt, Benjamin and Adorno (2014). He has also published various articles on the theatre of the self linking philosophy and literature, focusing especially on writers such as Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Pessoa and Joyce. He is an integrated member of the research groups ‘Art of Living’ and the ‘Lisbon Nietzsche Group’ in the CultureLab; the the project ‘Fragmentation and Reconfiguration: experiencing the city between art and philosophy’; and is also a member of ‘HyperNietzsche’. He was awarded the FCT Exploratory Grant (April 2014-March 2015) for the project ‘The Plurality of the Subject in Nietzsche and Pessoa’ in which he was the project leader. He was an active member of  Experimentation and Dissidence’ Research Project (2017-2019) at the Centre of Philosophy at the University of Lisbon.

 

He currently teaches a Masters programme in Philosophy under the theme ‘Art and Experience’ at Universidade Nova de Lisboa, with courses such as ‘Ecological Thought in Philosophy and Art’ (2020); and ‘Plurality, Paralysis and Revolution in the Theatre of the Self’ (2018-2019). He was a lecturer at Bard College Berlin for four years, and has also taught at universities in Brazil, Oxford, Aarhus, Dublin and Bishkek. He is currently co-editing a volume on Fernando Pessoa and Philosophy; and recently completed a book on the various journeys of human rights activist and revolutionary Roger Casement. In addition, he leads the international music project The Loafing Heroes, releasing a sixth album - ‘meandertales’ in 2019. bartholomewryan@fcsh.unl.pt

Academic Expertise and Research interests:

Modernism as a Philosophical Issue; Plurality of the Subject in Philosophy and Literature; Ecological Thought, Critical Theory; Radical Cosmopolitanism.

Publications:

Books (author)

  • Kierkegaard’s Indirect Politics: Interludes with Lukács, Schmitt, Benjamin and Adorno. New York/Amsterdam: Brill/Rodopi Press, 2014.

Books (editor)

Articles and Chapters​

  • “Nietzsche e a cultura europeia”, in Friedrich Nietzsche: uma Introdução, ed. Pietro Gori, Lisboa: Cotovia, 2020 (forthcoming).

  • “Ecological-Artistic Interpenetrations on a Damaged Planet: Invoking James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake”, 2020 (forthcoming).

  •  “Also Spuke Zerothruster e the Bringer of Plurabilities: James Joyce e Friedrich Nietzsche”, in Nietzsche e as Artes, ed. M.J. Branco & J. Constâncio, Lisboa: Cotovia, 2020 (forthcoming).

  •    “Out into the Middle of Life”: The Age of Disintegration and Ecological Perspectives in Kierkegaard’s Thought, Kierkegaard Yearbook, Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter, 2020 (forthcoming).

  •    “The Children of Nietzsche: Chaos, Plurality and Cosmopolitanism in James Joyce and Fernando Pessoa”, in European/Supra-European: Cultural Encounters in Nietzsche’s Philosophy"Nietzsche Studies, d. by Brusotti, Marco / McNeal, Michael / Schubert, Corinna / Siemens, Herman, Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter, 2020.

  •  “O Tinteiro Assombradado”: Forjar um herói joyceano em Roger Casement, M. Rostos do Si: Autobiografia, Confissão, Terapia, (eds. M. Faustino, B. Ryan, G. Ferraro), Lisboa: Vendaval, 2019.

  •  “Machines and ‘Empty and Oceanic Thought’: Fernando Pessoa’s doing and being of the self” in Questioning the Oneness of Philosophy. 4th Workshop of the Project Experimentation and Dissidence (e-book), ed. José Miranda Justo, Elisabete Sousa, Fernando Silva, Universidade de Lisboa, 2019.

  •   “Kierkegaard’s Dagdriver: loafing as a means of resistance to the technological, media and consumer system” in Kierkegaard and Political Theology (ed. Silas Morgan and Roberto Sirvent), Oregon: Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2018.

  • “Navegar é preciso; viver não é preciso: The Impossible Journeys of Søren Kierkegaard and Fernando Pessoa”, in Philosophy in the Condition of Modernism (ed. Ana Falcato & Antonio Cardiello), London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.

  •  ‘“I’m beginning to know myself. I don’t exist”: The Interval of Álvaro de Campos’, in Essays on Values and Practical Rationality, Lisbon: Peter Lang, 2018.

  •   ‘Aplicando as expressões de Pessoa ‘nonregionalism’ e ‘indefiniteness of soul’ ao cosmopolitismo radical e à ‘racialidade pluritópica’’, in publications online http://casafernandopessoa.cm-lisboa.pt/fileadmin/CASA_FERNANDO_PESSOA/CFP_ACTAS_2017.pdf, Lisboa: Casa Fernando Pessoa, 2017.

  •   ‘A Voyage in Immanence: Alberto Caeiro as an expression of Spinoza's Ethics’ in a volume called Literature and the Encounter with Immanence, edited by Brynnar Swenson, New York/Amsterdam: Brill, 2017.

  •  ‘Kierkegaard’s Experimental Theatre of the Self’, in From Hamann to Kierkegaard: First Workshop of the Project Experimentation and Dissidence (e-book), ed. José Miranda Justo, Elisabete Sousa, Fernando Silva, Universidade de Lisboa, 2017. 

  • http://experimentation-dissidence.umadesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/From-Hamann-to-Kierkegaard_e-book.pdf

  •   ‘Orpheu e os Filhos de Nietzsche: Caos e Cosmopolitismo’, in Nietzsche e Pessoa: Ensaios (ed. Ryan, Faustino, Cardiello), Lisboa: tinta da china, 2016.

  •  ‘The Plurality of the Subject in Kierkegaard and Nietzsche: Confronting Nihilism with Masks, Faith, and Amor Fati’, in Nietzsche and the Problem of Subjectivity (ed. Branco, Constâncio, Ryan), Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter, 2015.

  •  ‘Kierkegaard’s Fairytale’, in Rivista di Filosofia Neo-Scolastica, 3-4, Milan, 2014.

  •  ‘Mythologising the Exiled Self in James Joyce and Fernando Pessoa’, in Pessoa Plural: A Journal of Fernando Pessoa Studies, ed. Onésimo Almeida, Paulo de Medeiros & Jerónimo Pizarro, Brown University, Warwick University, Universidad de los Andes, Issue 4, Fall 2013.

  •  ‘Into the Nothing with Kierkegaard and Pessoa’, in Kierkegaard and the Challenges of Infinitude, Lisboa: Centro de Filosofia da Universidade de Lisboa, 2013.

  •  ‘James Joyce: negation, kierkeyaard, wake and repetition’, in Kierkegaard’s Influence on Literature, Criticism, and Art, Surrey: Ashgate Publishing, 2013.

  •  ‘The Rise and Fall of Zarathustra’s Star’, in As the Spider Spins: Essays on Nietzsche's Critique and Use of Language. Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter, 2012.

  •  ‘Deception, Nature and Nihilism in Politics: King Lear and Kurosawa, in Politics Otherwise: Shakespeare as Social and Political Critique, ed. L. Donskis & JD Mininger, Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, Value Inquiry Book Series, 2012.

  •   ‘Carl Schmitt: Zones of Exception and Appropriation’, in Kierkegaard’s Influence on Social-Political Thought, ed. Jon Stewart, Surrey, Ashgate Publishing, 2011.

  •  ‘Seduction, Defiance and Despair: Lord Byron in the works of Kierkegaard’, in Kierkegaard Research: Sources, Reception and Resources. Volume 5, Tome III, ed. Jon Stewart, Surrey: Ashgate Publishing, 2008.

  •  ‘Anxiety and the Desecration of Silence: Shelley in the works of Kierkegaard’, in Kierkegaard Research: Sources, Reception and Resources. Volume 5, Tome III, ed. Jon Stewart, Surrey: Ashgate Publishing, 2008.

  •  ‘Dethroning the Worldly Worries: The Traveller of Christian Discourses’, in Kierkegaard Studies Yearbook 2007, Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter, 2007. 

 
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