DE WARREN, Nicolas

Brief Biography

I studied in Paris, Heidelberg, and Boston, and obtained my PhD at Boston University. I have published four books: Husserl and the Promise of Time (2010), A Momentary Breathlessness in the Sadness of Time (2018), Original Forgiveness (2020), and German Philosophy and the First World War (2023). I am currently working on two book projects: a phenomenology of the afterlife that examines different senses in which, whether individually, collectively, or historically, the dead haunt the living; a study of the impact of the First World War on Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu. I am in the final stages of completing two co-authored books: The Erosion of Trust and Truthfulness in the Age of Democratic Uncertainty and We Nuclear People: Responsibility for Nuclear Waste in the Vastness of Time. I have published widely in the areas of phenomenology, ethics, 19th and 20th century philosophy, aesthetics, political philosophy, and literature. Among my most recent published papers:  “Cash Rules Everything Around Me: Georg Simmel’s The Philosophy of Money” (2024), “‘Grand, Ungodly, God-Like Man’: On the Symptomatology of Fanaticism” (2023), “On the Many Senses of the Political in Sartre’s Writings” (2023), and “Where were you when I laid earth’s foundations? Levinas and The Book of Job” (2022). I have also edited a number of volumes, most recently: Phenomenologies of the Digital Age: The Virtual, the Fictional, the Magical (2024) and The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Europe (2021).