Profile
Yunus Tuncel has been teaching at The New School since 1999. He received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the New School for Social Research. He is a co-founder of the Nietzsche Circle and is the Editor-in-Chief of its electronic journal, The Agonist, which is published twice a year. 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), Nietzsche on Human Emotions (Schwabe, 2021), and Flames of Passion (Beadle Press, 2022) and the editor of Nietzsche and Transhumanism (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017) and a co-editor of Nietzsche and Music (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2022). He has been working on music and philosophy interaction with thinkers and musicians for the last ten years, with an emphasis on Nietzsche and music. He has been working with posthumanists for the last ten years in New York and globally and is a co-founder and an editor of the newly created Journal of Posthumanism. His areas of research include art, competition, culture, existentialism, myth, music, power, psychoanalysis, spectacle, sports, performance, posthumanism, post-structuralism, sport philosophy, and theater. He is interested in the fusion of art (all forms of art) and philosophy in various cultural formations and undertakes a peripatetic project called Philomobile.
Degrees Held
New School for Social Research, New York, NY 1992-2000
Doctor of Philosophy, Philosophy Department, May 2000
City University of New York, Graduate School and University Center, New York, NY 1988-92
Master of Arts, Philosophy Department, May 1994
State University of New York at Buffalo 1981-85
Bachelor of Science (1985)
Professional Affiliation
American Philosophical Association
Nietzsche Circle
Friedrich Nietzsche Stiftung-Germany
French Institute/Alliance Française-New York
International Association for the Philosophy of Sport
The Nietzsche Society
The Friedrich Nietzsche Society of Great Britain and Ireland
Foucault Society
Metabody
NY Posthuman Research Group
Recent Publications
"Contra Legalist/Formalist Conceptions of Sport" in Sport, Law and Philosophy: The Jurisprudence of Sport edited by Miroslav Imbrišević (Routledge, 2022).
„Posthümanizm Çağında Biyo-Politika ve Geliştirme Teknolojileri“ in Çok Disiplinli Çalışmalarda Posthümanizm, edited by Sümeyra Buran and Pelin Kümbet (Transnational Press of London, 2022).
“The Question of Suffering in Nietzsche” in Estudios Nietzsche, Nietzsche y el sufrimiento, Número 22, 2022.
“Nietzsche on Feeling and Affekt in Music” Chapter 3 in An Anthology on Nietzsche and Music: Philosophical Thoughts and Musical Experiments, co-edited with Aysegul Durakoglu and Michael Steinmann (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2022).
Flames of Passion: Towards a Genealogy of Feelings (Beadle Press, 2022)
Nietzsche on Human Emotions (Schwabe, 2021)
Emotion in Sports (Routledge, 2019)
An Anthology on Nietzsche and Music: Philosophical Thoughts and Musical Experiments (co-edited with Aysegul Durakoglu and Michael Steinmann (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2022).
Research Interests
Ancient Greek philosophy and culture, education, existentialism, film, literature, German idealism, Nietzsche, phenomenology, philosophy and literature, psychoanalysis, theater, philosophy of sport, post-humanism, theories of art, culture and spectacle, social issues and social justice, and twentieth century Continental philosophy.