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Jack Reynolds

Jack Reynolds

Jack Reynolds is Senior Lecturer in the Philosophy Department at La Trobe University, and has written four books: Chronopathologies: The Politics of Time in Deleuze, Derrida, Analytic Philosophy and Phenomenology (Lexington Books, 2011), Analytic Versus Continental: Arguments on the Methods and Value of Philosophy (Acumen, 2010, with James Chase), Merleau-Ponty and Derrida: Intertwining Embodiment and Alterity (Ohio, 2004), and Understanding Existentialism (Acumen, 2006). He has also co-edited four collections: Continuum Companion to Existentialism (Continuum, 2011), Postanalytic and Metacontinental: Crossing Philosophical Divides (Continuum, 2010), Merleau-Ponty: Key Concepts (Acumen, 2008), and Understanding Derrida (Continuum, 2004). He is currently doing research on inter-subjectivity and the perception of others, drawing on the phenomenological tradition as well as findings in developmental psychology and the cognitive sciences.

Jack Reynolds reviews 'Friedrich Nietzsche: A Philosophical Biography' by Julian Young

April 2011, no. 330 • 24 March 2011
If any book market is nearing saturation, it must be the Nietzsche one, yet new titles keep appearing. Julian Young’s biography, Nietzsche: A Philosophical Biography, is unusual, given the author’s academic repute as a Nietzsche scholar. Young acutely surveys Nietzsche’s life, while offering erudite accounts of his philosophy. As Young observes in explaining Nietzsche’s own self-referentia ... (read more)