Faculty

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.

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)

"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).