Donovan Miyasaki is Professor of Philosophy at Wright State University and lives in Yellow Springs, Ohio. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in 2004 and his B.A. from the Colorado College in 1997.
His teaching and research interests include moral psychology, ethics, and political philosophy in the post-Kantian European tradition, particularly Nietzsche. His articles have appeared in Journal of Moral Philosophy, Journal of Medical Ethics, History of Philosophy Quarterly, Journal of Nietzsche Studies, and Nietzsche-Studien.
His current research explores Nietzschean undercurrents in the critical Marxist politics of Simone de Beauvoir, Frantz Fanon, and Huey P. Newton, including Fanon's approach to politics as a form of "cultivation," the foundation of Beauvoir's ethics in a form of "immoralism," and Newton's use of the concept of "power" as a criterion of justice.
His two-volume study Nietzsche's Immoralism: Politics as First Philosophy and Politics After Morality: Toward a Nietzschean Left (Palgrave Macmillan 2022) argues that Nietzsche's aristocratic politics is inconsistent with his core philosophical commitments to determinism and immoralism, critically reconstructing Nietzsche's theories of justice and rights as the potential ground for a non-liberal, democratic, and socialist politics.
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His teaching and research interests include moral psychology, ethics, and political philosophy in the post-Kantian European tradition, particularly Nietzsche. His articles have appeared in Journal of Moral Philosophy, Journal of Medical Ethics, History of Philosophy Quarterly, Journal of Nietzsche Studies, and Nietzsche-Studien.
His current research explores Nietzschean undercurrents in the critical Marxist politics of Simone de Beauvoir, Frantz Fanon, and Huey P. Newton, including Fanon's approach to politics as a form of "cultivation," the foundation of Beauvoir's ethics in a form of "immoralism," and Newton's use of the concept of "power" as a criterion of justice.
His two-volume study Nietzsche's Immoralism: Politics as First Philosophy and Politics After Morality: Toward a Nietzschean Left (Palgrave Macmillan 2022) argues that Nietzsche's aristocratic politics is inconsistent with his core philosophical commitments to determinism and immoralism, critically reconstructing Nietzsche's theories of justice and rights as the potential ground for a non-liberal, democratic, and socialist politics.
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