Jussi Backman

Jussi Backman
Education
EducationUniversity of Helsinki (PhD) · Université de Nice – Sophia Antipolis (DEA)
Philosophical work
EraContemporary philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
InstitutionsTampere University
Main interestsHistory of philosophy, conceptual history, metaphysics, political theory, phenomenology, philosophy of religion, philosophy of art
Websitehttps://uta-fi.academia.edu/JussiBackman

Jussi Backman is a Finnish philosopher and Senior Research Fellow at the Tampere Institute for Advanced Study, Tampere University. His work spans the history of philosophy, metaphysics, phenomenology, and the conceptual history of politics and life.

Books

  • Complicated Presence: Heidegger and the Problem of Metaphysics (Albany: SUNY Press, 2015)[1]
  • Omaisuus ja elämä: Heidegger ja Aristoteles kreikkalaisen ontologian rajalla (Eurooppalaisen filosofian seura, 2005)
  • Heidegger: Ajattelun aiheita (edited with Miika Luoto; Eurooppalaisen filosofian seura, 2006).
  • Biopolitics and Ancient Thought (edited with Antonio Cimino; Oxford University Press, 2022)[2][3]
  • Phenomenology and Experience: New Perspectives (Brill, 2018).

References

  1. ^ Massie, Pascal; The Heidegger Circle (2019). "Jussi Backman, Complicated Presence: Heidegger and the Postmetaphysical Unity of Being:". Gatherings: The Heidegger Circle Annual. 9: 192–201. doi:10.5840/gatherings201999. ISSN 2165-3275.
  2. ^ Gerolemou, Maria (2025). "Jussi Backman, Antonio Cimino (eds.): Biopolitics and Ancient Thought". Gnomon. 97 (3): 454–459. doi:10.17104/0017-1417-2025-3-454. ISSN 0017-1417.
  3. ^ Schliephake, Christopher (2025-06-02). "Jussi Backman / Antonio Cimino, Biopolitics and Ancient Thought. Oxford, Oxford University Press 2022". Historische Zeitschrift. 320 (3): 699–701. doi:10.1515/hzhz-2025-1119. ISSN 2196-680X.