Rate My Professor Michael Ure

Ure's research specializations encompass modern and classical political theory, the politics of the emotions, European philosophy, and philosophy as a way of life, with particular attention to thinkers such as Nietzsche, Foucault, and Hadot. He has published extensively in these fields with leading academic presses. Key works include his monograph Nietzsche's Therapy: Self-Cultivation in the Middle Works (Lexington Books, 2008); the co-edited collection The Politics of Compassion (Routledge, 2014, with Mervyn Frost); Nietzsche's The Gay Science: An Introduction (Cambridge University Press, 2019); and Philosophy as a Way of Life: History, Dimensions, Directions (Bloomsbury, 2021, with Matthew Sharpe). Additional contributions feature chapters such as 'Camus and Nietzsche: on the Slave Revolt in Morality', 'Stoicism: political resistance or retreat?', 'Post-traumatic societies: On reconciliation, justice and the emotions', and 'Sympathy for the devil'. Ure has been recognized with Rufus Davis Awards for supervising the best Politics Honours theses in 2012 ('Freedom in Foucault: The ethics of aesthetics' by Kylie Dolan), 2013 ('Reclaiming Conflict in the Political' by Octavia Bryant), and 2015 ('The Politics of Nihilism: Political Existentialism and Political Humanism in Nietzsche and Camus' by Robert Moseley).