Peter Bornedal

BIO

Nationality: Denmark. Residences: Philippines and Denmark.

Education: (a) Dr. Phil. (Habilitation), Faculty of Arts and Sciences, The University of Copenhagen (1998). (b) Ph. D., Comp. Lit., The University of Chicago (1994).

Current Position: Independent writer and researcher

Position 1993-2020: Professor of Philosophy and Civilization Studies, American University of Beirut; Director of Program for Civilization Studies. (Resigned upon financial, economic, and social collapse of Lebanon and AUB in 2020)

Doctoral Specializations: (a) Dr. Phil.; emphasis on Philosophy of Knowledge, Language, & Interpretation, (b) Ph. D.; emphasis on Aesthetics, Art Theory & Literary Criticism.

Current Interests: Philosophy & History of Ideas, 19th & 20th Century; emphasis on epistemology.

Publications: Several books (~8) and articles (~30).

Most Important Publications:

(1) 2021: Reactive Epistemology: A Critique of Derridean Deconstruction from a Nietzschean Point of View, pp. 300 (forthcoming with Walter de Gruyter)

(2) 2020: Nietzsche’s Naturalist Deconstruction of Truth, pp. 301; https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498579315

(3) 2010: The Surface and the Abyss, pp. 624 (paperback, 2016); https://www.degruyter.com/view/product/42877

(4) 1997: Speech and System, pp. 420; https://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/author/B/P/au14317238.html

Most Important Work in Progress:

(1) Beyond Priest and Slave: Nietzsche’s Psychological Critique of Ideology (in progress)

(2) Epistemology from an Economical Point of View: Theory of Knowledge at the Turn of the 19th Century (With a translation of Richard Avenarius: “Philosophie als Denken der Welt gemäss dem Princip des kleinsten Kraftmasses)