Jill Marsden is a scholar of the work of German philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche. Marsden, from Nottingham

Nottingham

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, took her BA, MA and PhD from the University of Essex

University of Essex

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. Her doctoral thesis explored Nietzsche's Doctrine of Eternal Return.

In 2002, Marsden's first book, After Nietzsche: Notes Towards a Philosophy of Ecstasy, was published by Palgrave Macmillan

Palgrave Macmillan

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. The text explores the imaginative possibilities for philosophy created by Nietzsche's sustained reflection on the phenomenon of "ecstasy". From The Birth of Tragedy

The Birth of Tragedy

The Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit of Music is a 19th-century work of dramatic theory by the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. It was reissued in 1886 as The Birth of Tragedy, Or: Hellenism and Pessimism ...

(1872) to his experimental "physiology of art", Nietzsche examines the aesthetic, erotic and sacred dimensions of rapture, hinting at how an ecstatic philosophy is realized in his elusive doctrine of Eternal Return. Marsden's book pursues the implications of this legacy for contemporary continental thought via analyses of such voyages in ecstasy as Kant

KANT

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, Schopenhauer, Schreber

Daniel Paul Schreber

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 and Bataille.

Marsden is a senior lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Bolton

University of Bolton

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. She is at work on her second volume, set to explore 'the art of brevity'. Outside of her work on Nietzsche, Marsden's research interests include aesthetics

Aesthetics

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, feminism

Feminism

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 and literature

Literature

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, on which themes she has published articles in, among others, the Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology and Women's Philosophy Review.

External links

• Jill Marsden at University of Bolton