Prof Vanessa Lemm

Overview

Vanessa Lemm, PhD in Philosophy from the New School for Social Research, USA (2002), Master in Philosophy from King’s College University of London, England (1993), Postgraduate degree in Philosophy (Diplome d’Etudes Approfondis) (1994), Bachelor in Philosophy (Licence) (1992) and an undergraduate degree in Philosophy (D.E.U.G) (1992) from Université de Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, France. She is professor in philosophy and Head of School of the School of Humanities of the University of New South Wales. She also directed and taught at the Institute of Humanities at the Diego Portales University, Santiago de Chile (2006-2011) and taught at the Institute of Philosophy of the University of Potsdam as a DAAD Guestprofessor in 2010-2011.

Research Summary

Her research focuses on the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche; contemporary political thought; biopolitics; the question of the animal; philosophy of culture and cultures of memory; theories of justice and the gift. She is the author of Nietzsche’s Animal Philosophy: Culture, Politics and the Animality of the Human Being (New York: Fordham University Press, 2009). This book has been translated to Spanish (Santiago de Chile: Ediciones Universidad Diego Portales, 2010) and German (Berlin/Zürich: Diaphanes Verlag, 2012). And more recently of Nietzsche y el pensamiento politico contemporáneo (Santiago de Chile: Fondo de Cultura Economica, 2013). She edited Hegel, Pensador de la actualidad (Santiago de Chile: Ediciones Universidad Diego Portales, 2010) in collaboration with Juan Omeño, and Michel Foucault: Neoliberalismo y biopolítica (Santiago de Chile: Ediciones Universidad Diego Portales, 2010). She is currently editing three books: a collection of essays on Foucault by internationally recognized Foucault specialists entitled The Government of Life: Michel Foucault, Biopolitics and Neoliberalism for Fordham University Press (2014) and two collections of essays on Nietzsche by internationally recognized Nietzsche scholars entitled Nietzsche and the Becoming of Life. She is responsible for the FONDECYT Regular project (2008-2011): “Nietzsche, Biopolitics and the Future of the Human "(Nº 1085238) and FONDECYT Regular project (2011-2012): “Nietzsche and Heidegger on Justice” both financed by the Chilean National Research Council.

Publications

Books

Lemm, V, 2013, Nietzsche y el pensamiento politico contemporaneo, Fondo de cultura economica, Santiago de Chile

Lemm, V, 2012, Nietzsches Philosophie des Tieres, 1. edition, Diaphanes Verlag, Berlin/Zuerich

Lemm, V, ed, 2010, Michel Foucault: neoliberalismo y biopolitica, Ediciones Universidad Diego Portales, Sanntiago de Chile

Lemm, V & Ormeño, J, eds, 2010, Hegel, pensador de la actualidad, Ediciones Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago de Chile

Lemm, V, 2009, Nietzsche's Animal Philosophy:Culture, Politics and the Animality of the Human Being, 1st, Fordham University Press, New York

Chapters

Lemm, V, 2012, 'The Spectrality of Responsibility in Nietzsche, Sartre and Derrida', in Renate Reschke and Marco Brusotti (ed.), Einige werden posthum geboren, edn. 1st, De Gruyter, Berlin, pp. 151 - 158

Lemm, V, 2012, 'Biopolitics and Community in Roberto Esposito', in Terms of the Political, Fordham University Press, New York, pp. 1 - 13

Lemm, V, 2011, 'Nietzsche, Aristocratism and Non-Domination', in Jimmy Clausen and James Martel (ed.), How not to be governed: Readings and Interpretations from a Postanarchist Left, Lexington Books, New York, pp. 83 - 102, https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780739150344

Lemm, V, 2011, 'La politica del acontecimiento en Nietzsche', in Miguel Vatter & Miguel Ruiz Stull (ed.), Politica y acontecimiento, Fondo de Cultura Economica, Santiago, Chile, pp. 169 - 192

Lemm, V, 2008, 'The Biological Threshold of Modern Politics: Nietzsche, Foucault and the Question of Animal Life', in H. Siemens and V. Roodt (ed.), Nietzsche, Power, and Politics: Rethinking Nietzsche`s Legacy for Political Thought, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, Germany, pp. 679 - 699

Lemm, V, 2008, 'Justice and Gift-Giving in Thus Spoke Zarathustra', in James Luchte (ed.), Before Sunrise: Essays on Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Continuum International Publishers, London, pp. 165 - 181

Lemm, V, 2004, 'The Overhuman Animal', in Ralph Acampora and Christa Davis Acampora (ed.), A Nietzschean Bestiary, Rowman and Littlefield, New York, pp. 220 - 239

Journal Articles

Lemm, V, 2013, 'Nietzsche, Einverleibung and the Politics of Immunity', International Journal of Philosophical Studies, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 3 - 19

Lemm, V & Vatter, M, 2012, 'Poder, vida y subjetivacion', Revista de Estudios Sociales, no. 43, pp. 166 - 173

Lemm, V, 2011, 'History, Life and Justice in Friedrich Nietzsche's Vom Nutzen und Nachtheil der Historie fur das Leben', Cr-The New Centennial Review, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 167 - 188

Lemm, V, 2011, 'Das Problem der Naturbeherrschung bei Nietzsche und Adorno/Horkheimer: Affirmative Biopolitik und die Dialektik der Aufklarung', Zeitschrift fur Kritische Theorie, vol. 32/33, pp. 85 - 110

Lemm, V, 2010, 'Critical Theory and Affirmative Biopolitics: Nietzsche and the Domination of Life in Adorno and Horkheimer', Journal of Power, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 75 - 95

Lemm, V, 2010, 'Mas alla de la politica de la dominacion', Alpha: Revista de Artes, Letras y Filosofia, no. 31, pp. 9 - 25

Lemm, V, 2010, 'Dar y Perdonar en Nietzsche y Derrida', Pensamiento, no. 294, pp. 963 - 979

Lemm, V, 2009, 'Nietzsche y la libertad individual: Rawls, Cavell y el debate sobre el valor del perfeccionismo para la democracia', Alpha: Revista de Artes, Letras y Filosofia, no. 28, pp. 87 - 104

Lemm, V, 2009, 'Nietzsche y el olvido animal', Arbor: ciencia, pensamiento, cultura, no. 736, pp. 471 - 482, http://dx.doi.org/10.3989/arbor

Lemm, V, 2007, 'Is Nietzsche a Perfectionist? Rawls, Cavell and the Politics of Culture in Nietzsche's Schopenhauer as Educator', Journal of Nietzsche, vol. 34, pp. 5 - 27

Lemm, V, 2006, 'Memory and Promise in Arendt and Nietzsche', Revista de Ciencia Politica, vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 161 - 174