30th International Conference of the Friedrich Nietzsche Society
Nietzsche on Art, Affect, and the Political
Hosted by Rebecca Bamford
Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland
4-6 September 2025
Plenary Speakers
Hugo Drochon (University of Nottingham)
Katrina Mitcheson (University of the West of England)
David Owen (University of Southampton)
Andrea Rehberg (Newcastle University)
Katrina Mitcheson (University of the West of England)
David Owen (University of Southampton)
Andrea Rehberg (Newcastle University)
Travel Information
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The 30th Conference of the Friedrich Nietzsche Society (FNS), at Queen’s University Belfast (Northern Ireland), will critically explore interconnections and differences in Nietzsche’s thinking on art, affect, and the political. Nietzsche undeniably connects art with affect and emotion, for instance in his discussion of art alongside moral emotions such as honesty and shame, and his contentions that existence is bearable for us as an aesthetic phenomenon — and that art enables us to turn ourselves into such a phenomenon (GS 107). Nietzsche’s connection of affect with the political, for example with regard to the politics of ressentiment in On the Genealogy of Morals, is well-known. And Nietzsche clearly connects art with the political, for instance in his critical engagement with Wagner on art and politics, in his tragic politics, and in his thinking on interconnections between art, life, and the political in Beyond Good and Evil.
Conference Abstracts
Decisions regarding submitted abstracts for Conference 2025 will be released May 12.