Nicholas E Low
Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard University, US
Nicholas E Low received an MTS in Philosophy of Religions from Harvard Divinity School, and received his PhD from Harvard University, Committee on the Study of Religion in November 2023. His research focuses on points of contact between theology, religion, and modern philosophy, tracking especially the afterlives of gods, divinities, and other “religious” phenomena in purportedly secular discourse. His first book, Nietzsche, Dionysus, and the Deification of Life (Bloomsbury, 2026), reads Nietzsche’s work as pursuing a “philosophical discipleship” to the god Dionysus, a project that aims at the transformation of human life. Future projects involve the role of laughter and humor in modern philosophy, the genealogy of the subject, and the shifting meanings of religion and religiosity in the modern world.
