Henri Böschen
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Email
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Location
Colchester Campus
Profile
Biography
I am a PhD candidate in Philosophy at the University of Essex. My PhD research focuses on German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche's conception of nihilism and its relation to temporality, in particular to the experience of transience. The project is funded by the CHASE Doctoral Training Partnership. I am also an Assistant Lecturer teaching on the module 'Death, God, and the Meaning of Life' (PY113). Before beginning my PhD at Essex, I studied for a MA in Philosophy at King's College London and for a BA in International Relations and Politics at Cardiff University.
Qualifications
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BSc Econ International Relations and Politics (with a Language) Cardiff University (2020)
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MA Philosophy King's College London (2021)
Research and professional activities
Thesis
The Prehistory of Nihilism: Experiences of Time in Friedrich Nietzsches The Birth of Tragedy
Friedrich Nietzsche argues that nihilism, the existential stance that life is meaningless, is linked to transience. Examining Nietzsche’s The Birth of Tragedy I seek to uncover the roots of this link in Ancient Greek. I argue that the pre-Socratics did not experience time nihilistically. With the death of tragedy a new experience of time as history emerges which develops down to the 19th century into an experience of time as transience, while the incipient nihilism becomes full blown nihilism.
Supervisor: Béatrice Han-Pile
Research interests
Schelling
Nietzsche
Heidegger
Post Kantian Philosophy (19th and 20th century)
Existential issues sourrounding time (e.g., finitude, grief/mourning, the role of memory, historical awareness, etc.), German Idealism (esp. the role of the imagination, tragedy, philosphy of nature and history, theology and the absolute), Phenomenology, Philosophical Pessimism, Philosophical Anthropology, Philosophy of Art (esp. literature, fiction and myth)
