Bartholomew Ryan received his PhD in Philosophy from Århus University, Denmark in 2006, with a dissertation on Kierkegaard's resonance in the work of Georg Lukács, Carl Schmitt, Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno. He also holds an MA in European Philosophy at University College Dublin, where he was awarded the Professor Magennis Prize for first place in the year. His BA is in Philosophy and Political Science from Trinity College Dublin. A Visiting Lecturer at ECLA since 2007, he has also taught philosophy at the Universities of Oxford, Aarhus, and University College Dublin. In 2005 and 2007, he worked at the Kierkegaard Research Centre in Copenhagen, and taught 'Dostoevsky and the roots of terrorism' and 'Montaigne and the making of the modern self' at ECLA's International Summer University (2007-2009). His research and teaching interests include the tension between faith and nihilism in philosophy and theology, European modernist literature, and critical theory. In October 2011, Bartholomew was awarded a fellowship in Lisbon to write a book on theatres of the self - juxtaposing Fernando Pessoa and Søren Kierkegaard.

In addition, Bartholomew writes and performs music and released three albums of original material in 2009-2011.

Contact: b.ryan@ecla.de

Classes Taught at ECLA:

Electives:

The Cracked Ballad of the Existential Self
Journeys to Selfhood: Reading Søren Kierkegaard
Wandering through Modernity: Reading James Joyce's Ulysses
The Philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer
"I Can't Go On, I'll Go On": Reading Samuel Beckett

AY Core Course:

Property (2009, 2008)
Art and Politics in Renaissance Florence (2009)

 

PY Reading Groups:

Heinrich von Kleist's Tales
Theodor Adorno's Minima Moralia
Spinoza's Ethics
Nietzsche's Human All-Too Human

 

International Summer University

Prussia: Philosophy, Rebellion and the State (2011)
Montaigne and the Making of the Modern Self (2009)
The Mantle of the Prophet: Demons, Saints and Terrorists (2008, 2007)

 

Publications:

-. "The Rise and Fall of Zarathustra's Star", Nietzsche on the Language of Morality, Philosophy and Art, Peter Lang, forthcoming April 2012

- "Negation, Wake and Repetition: Kierkegaard and James Joyce", Kierkegaard's Influence on Literature, Criticism and Art, forthcoming June 2012

-. "Deception, Nature and Nihilism in Politics: King Lear and Kurosawa's Ran", in Philosophy, Politics and Literature, Value Inquiry Book Series, forthcoming April 2012

- "Zones of Exception: Carl Schmitt appropriating Kierkegaard", Kierkegaard's Influence on Social and Political Thought (ed. Jon Stewart), December 2011

-. "Vigilantes of the Exception: Søren Kierkegaard and Carl Schmitt", In the Shadow of Kierkegaard (ed. Kralik, Khan, Mahrik, Turcan), Central European Research Institute of Søren Kierkegaard, October 2011

-. "Kierkegaard a príroda: pohanská kritika", Kierkegaardovo zrkadlo pre súcasnost, Toronto, Kierkegaard Circle & Kierkegaard Society of Slovakia, 2010

- "Dialogue Against Itself, Chatter and Nomadic Thinking", LCC Journal, March 2009

-. Preface to Kierkegaard and Faith, ed. by Roman Králik [et al.], Barcelona/Nitra/Málaga/Mexico City 2008

- "Kierkegaard and Nature. A Pagan's Critique." October 2008, Kierkegaardiana Series 2008

- "Seduction, Defiance and Despair: Lord Byron in the works of Kierkegaard". Kierkegaard Research: Sources, Reception and Resources (ed. Jon Stewart), 2008

- "Anxiety and the Desecration of Silence: Shelley in the works of Kierkegaard". Kierkegaard Research: Sources, Reception and Resources (ed. Jon Stewart), 2008

- "Dethroning the Worldly Worries: The Traveller of Christian Discourses" Kierkegaard Studies Yearbook 2007, de Gruyter, Berlin/New York, July 2007