Stephen Cheung has worked on the relationship between Nietzsche’s scholarly and popular reception.
His current research investigates Nietzsche’s use of literary devices to enact his philosophical goals and the interaction of philosophy and theology in the context of Nietzsche’s atheism.
A W A R D S
R. J. Hollingdale Prize
2023
2023 winner of the R. J. Hollingdale Prize, awarded by the Friedrich Nietzsche Society to a recent postdoctoral scholar for a paper presented at the annual conference.
P U B L I C A T I O N S
‘Nietzsche the Philosopher of Reverence’
2025
The Journal of Nietzsche Studies, Volume 6, Issue 1, 2025.
2024
Pages 187 - 203 in Nietzsche’s Philosophy of Life Affirmation: Experimenting with Art and Science to Transfigure Humankind. Edited by Michael J. McNeal (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)
C O N F E R E N C E P A P E R S
‘Locating Nietzsche's Great Individuals: Between a Philosophical Bestiary and the New Testament’
2024
24th Conference for the European Society for the Philosophy of Religion.’ University of Trento, Italy 2024.
‘The Happiness of a God: Nietzsche, Nobility and the Shaping of Humanity’
2024
25th The World Congress of Philosophy, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, 1st - 8th August 2024.
‘Reverence: Nietzsche’s Cardinal Virtue’
2024
25th The World Congress of Philosophy, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy 1st - 8th August 2024.
‘Faithfulness to the Earth: Remedying Nietzsche’s Misreading of Paul.’
2024
29th International Conference for the Friedrich Nietzsche Society, University Verona, Italy, 25th - 27th July 2024.
‘Rhetoric Reverence and Rank: Practising the Noble Virtues’
2023
28th International Conference for the Friedrich Nietzsche Society, University of Lausanne, Switzerland, 14th - 16th September 2023.
‘Mouldy in 1872: Varieties of Straussian Optimism in the Face of a Nietzschean Crisis’
2023
Conference for the International Society for Intellectual History, University of Edinburgh, UK. 4 - 6th September 2023.
27th International Conference for the Friedrich Nietzsche Society, University of Dundee, UK 16th -17th September 2022.