Bartholomew Ryan, “A Philosophy of the Dark: Journeying into James Joyce's Finnegans Wake”
Bartholomew Ryan is a philosopher, musician, and researcher at IFILNOVA, Universidade Nova de Lisboa. He is the coordinator of the research group ‘Forms of Life and Practices of Philosophy’ at IFILNOVA. Amongst his various publications interpenetrating philosophy and literature, he is the author of Critical Lives: Fernando Pessoa (Reaktion Books, 2024) and Kierkegaard’s Indirect Politics: Interludes with Lukács, Schmitt, Benjamin and Adorno (Brill, 2014), and co-editor of Fernando Pessoa and Philosophy: Countless Lives Inhabit Us (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021). He is currently writing a book called James Joyce: The Unfolding Art of Flourishing and Decay, which will be published by Oxford University Press. In music, he leads the international band The Loafing Heroes, releasing six albums; released a solo album called Jabuti (under the name Loafing Hero) in 2022; and is a member of the experimental audio formation Headfoot.