Keith Ansell-Pearson

Keith Ansell-Pearson is a British philosopher specializing in the work of Henri Bergson, Gilles Deleuze and Friedrich Nietzsche. He is currently Professor of Philosophy at Warwick University. Ansell-Pearson is the author of numerous books including Germinal Life, Viroid Life and Philosophy and the Adventure of the Virtual.

Ansell-Pearson graduated from the University of Sussex and taught at the University of Malawi in southern Africa and Queen Mary College in London. He joined the Philosophy Department of the University of Warwick in 1993 and has held a Personal Chair since 1998.

He is on the editorial boards of Cosmos and History, Deleuze Studies, Journal of Nietzsche Studies, Nietzsche-Studien, and the new book series Nietzsche Now. He serves on the scientific committee of Nietzscheana.

Ansell-Pearson is known for his work on Nietzsche, Bergson, and Deleuze, and for exploring their work in the context of modern biophilosophy. Lately he has been focusing on Nietzsche's neglected middle period texts, especially The Dawn.

• Nietzsche and Modern German Thought. London: Routledge. 1991. ISBN 978-0-415-04442-4. 
• Nietzsche Contra Rousseau: A Study of Nietzsche's Moral and Political Thought. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press. 1991. ISBN 978-0-521-41173-8. 
• An Introduction to Nietzsche as Political Thinker: The Perfect Nihilist. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press. 1994. ISBN 978-0-521-42721-0. 
• Nietzsche Contra Rousseau: A Study of Nietzsche's Moral and Political Thought. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press. 1996. ISBN 978-0-521-57569-0. 
• Deleuze and Philosophy: The Difference Engineer. London: Routledge. 1997. ISBN 978-0-415-14269-4. 
• Viroid Life: Perspectives on Nietzsche and the Transhuman Condition. London: Routledge. 1997. ISBN 978-0-415-15435-2. 
• Germinal Life: The Difference and Repetition of Deleuze. London: Routledge. 1998. ISBN 978-0-415-18351-2. 
• Nietzsche and Modern German Thought. London: Routledge. 1991. ISBN 978-0-415-04442-4. 
• A Companion to Nietzsche. Oxford: Blackwell. 2006. ISBN 978-1-4051-1622-0.