Michael Tanner

12.30-2pm | Thursday 12 February 2009
Room NAB1.04, New Academic Building, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, LSE

Speaker
Michael Tanner, Fellow and University Lecturer in Philosophy, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge

Chair
Sebastian Gardner, Professor of Philosophy, University College London

Michael Tanner was educated in the RAF and at Cambridge University, where he is a Fellow of Corpus Christi College and a Lecturer in Philosophy until 1997. He is equally interested in philosophy, music and literature, his particular areas being Friederich Nietzsche and Richard Wagner. He has written for many journals, contributed ‘The Total Work of Art’ to The Wagner Companion, ed. P. Burbridge and R. Sutton (London: Faber and Faber, 1979) and is the author of Nietzsche (OUP 1995), Wagner (HarperCollins 1997) Schopenhauer: The Great Philosophers (Routledge 1999).