Lise van Boxel

Lise van Boxel received her Ph.D. in political science with a major in political philosophy and a minor in American government from The University of Toronto. She contributed two chapters on Nietzsche to Prefaces for Unwritten Works (St. Augustine’s Press, 2005). She wrote “Nietzsche in Eden” in The Pious Sex (Lexington Books, 2010). She recently completed a book-length manuscript entitled Nietzsche:  Becoming Human. In this work, she offers a new, comprehensive interpretation of Nietzsche’s philosophy based in his foundational understanding of the genealogy or development and growth of the human being. This manuscript focuses on three of Nietzsche’s books: Beyond Good and Evil, On the Genealogy of Morals, and Thus Spoke Zarathustra. She is tenured at St. John’s College (Santa Fe / Annapolis), where she teaches courses in mathematics, science, language, religion, literature, and philosophy.