DE WARREN, Nicolas

Visiting Professor

PhD (Boston University)
njd15@psu.edu

Brief Biography

I studied in Paris, Heidelberg, and Boston, and obtained my PhD at Boston University. I have published four books: Husserl and the Promise of Time (2010), A Momentary Breathlessness in the Sadness of Time (2018), Original Forgiveness (2020), and German Philosophy and the First World War (2023). I am currently working on two book projects: a phenomenology of the afterlife that examines different senses in which, whether individually, collectively, or historically, the dead haunt the living; a study of the impact of the First World War on Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu. I am in the final stages of completing two co-authored books: The Erosion of Trust and Truthfulness in the Age of Democratic Uncertainty and We Nuclear People: Responsibility for Nuclear Waste in the Vastness of Time. I have published widely in the areas of phenomenology, ethics, 19th and 20th century philosophy, aesthetics, political philosophy, and literature. Among my most recent published papers:  “Cash Rules Everything Around Me: Georg Simmel’s The Philosophy of Money” (2024), “‘Grand, Ungodly, God-Like Man’: On the Symptomatology of Fanaticism” (2023), “On the Many Senses of the Political in Sartre’s Writings” (2023), and “Where were you when I laid earth’s foundations? Levinas and The Book of Job” (2022). I have also edited a number of volumes, most recently: Phenomenologies of the Digital Age: The Virtual, the Fictional, the Magical (2024) and The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Europe (2021). 

Research Interests

  1. Phenomenology
  2. Ethics
  3. 19th and 20th century philosophy
  4. Aesthetics
  5. Political philosophy
  6. Literature

Selected Publications

  1. Husserl and the Promise of Time (2010)
  2. A Momentary Breathlessness in the Sadness of Time (2018)
  3. Original Forgiveness (2020)
  4. German Philosophy and the First World War (2023)