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Dr Richard Elliott

Positions held:
  • Lecturer, School of Historical Studies
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  • Overview

    Overview

    Biography

    Richard Elliott is Lecturer in Philosophy at both Birkbeck, University of London (Part-Time), and the University of Reading. Before that, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow for the British Society for the History of Philosophy.

    Richard has published on themes in 19th and 20th Century Philosophy, drawing on the works of figures such as Nietzsche, Adorno, Heidegger, Freud, Fanon, Wagner, and others. He has also published on topics in Early Modern Philosophy, as well as ethics, aesthetics, and the philosophy of religion.

    He currently has a book under contract with Cambridge University Press, entitled Nietzsche and the Death of God.

    He was Chief Organizer of the forthcoming Fanon's Philosophical Legacy Conference in June 2025. The conference coincided with the centenary year of Frantz Fanon's birth. An edited volume of the proceedings will follow. 


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    Administrative responsibilities

    • BA Philosophy Admissions Tutor
  • Research

    Research

    Research overview

    Current Primary Research:

    i. Four papers forthcoming or under review on Nietzsche’s contributions to topics in ethics, moral psychology and philosophical psychology

    ii. Two research papers and a prospective edited volume on Fanon. Personal research concerns Fanon's moral psychology and theory of action, and a stand-alone paper on Fanon's conception of the human. The edited volume, Fanon as Philosopher, will be comprised of nine original research papers, from the proceedings for the Fanon's Philosophical Legacy conference (June 2025)

    iii. Research papers and projected eventual monograph on consciousness, estrangement, and the role of aesthetics in Adorno

    iv. Work on the later Heidegger, including a paper on nihilism, metaphysics and its 'overcoming' (forthcoming in The British Journal for the History of Philosophy)

  • Supervision and teaching

    Supervision and teaching

    Supervision

    I have supervised undergraduate and graduate Birkbeck students on topics in;
    -ethics
    -topics across post-Kantian and 20th century European philosophy
    -political philosophy
    -metaphysics of agency
    -methods of genealogy
    -early modern philosophy, especially Spinoza
    -social philosophy (including theories of recognition and punishment)
    -Wittgenstein

    Teaching

    Teaching modules

    • London: Places, Objects, Ideas (SC03015S3)
    • The Philosophy of Nietzsche (Level 7) (SSPL114S7)
    • Research in Theoretical Philosophy (SSPL157S7)
    • Research in Practical Philosophy (SSPL158S7)
    • Themes in Twentieth-Century French and German Philosophy (Level 5) (SSPL265S5)
  • Publications

    Publications

    External Repositories

  • Business and community

    Business and community

    Outreach

    I am an Academic Mentor Volunteer on the Compass Project, providing pastoral assistance to refugees and asylum seekers, within the University of London.

    I regularly present non-specialist philosophy talks for the Seed Talks group in different parts of the UK. I am happy to receive inquiries about providing similar such talks, on a range of philosophical themes.