Professor Dr Anthony K. Jensen

Dr Anthony K. Jensen is Professor of Philosophy at Providence College in Rhode Island, USA. He will be Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall starting March, 2026. He has held visiting research positions at the Humboldt Universität of Berlin (2010-12), the Radboud Universiteit in Nijmegen (2012), the Technische Universität of Berlin (2013), and was Visiting Professor at CEA in Rome (2017-18). He has received fellowships from the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung, the National Endowment of the Humanities, the Klassik Stiftung Weimar, the Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, and the Fulbright Foundation. In 2020, he was named the Providence College Outstanding Scholar of the Year. Since 2018, he has held certification from the Court of Master Sommeliers.

Professor Jensen’s published scholarship includes several monographs and edited volumes that have contributed to the understanding of 19th Century German philosophy, especially the figure of Nietzsche. Among his major works are “An Interpretation of Nietzsche’s On the Uses and Disadvantage of History for Life,” “Nietzsche’s Philosophy of History,” (with Carlotta Santini) “The Re-Encountered Shadow: Nietzsche on Memory and History,” and (with Helmut Heit) “Nietzsche as a Scholar of Antiquity”. He has written more than sixty articles, chapters, translations, reviews, and encyclopedia articles, and presented more than seventy lectures around the globe. His work has been translated into French, Italian, German, Portuguese, and Chinese. His most recent book, “The Philosophy of Will: A Reexamination of Late Modern German Philosophy” (Routledge, 2025) traces the development of the notion of ‘Will’ from Goethe, Schelling, and Schopenhauer, through a number of minor Schopenhauerian figures, up to Nietzsche, and involves European philosophical traditions in metaphysics, philosophy of history, epistemology, and aesthetics.

Accompanying Professor Dr Jensen to Clare Hall will be his wife, Danielle Cassidy, and his two young sons, William and Wesley.