Lucas Murrey Author

Lucas Murrey (Ph.D. Yale University) has taught at UCLA (Los Angeles) and Yale University (New Haven) and is presently finishing two works Friedrich Nietzsche: The Meaning of Earth and Fin-de-Siècle Germany and the Trauma of the Great War. The abiding interest in the power of images and language not only to estrange, but also to return humankind to its earthly place in the cosmos, as betrayed by Murrey’s research and teaching style, may well have its roots in his childhood and youth in southern California. Of particular concern to him is the communal potential of seeing (and listening) in ways that transcend the narrowness of a media culture that is driven exclusively by money and its (lethal) socio-political symptoms.