Ruth Burch
CTA Istituto Interlingue Researcher and Teacher
Switzerland
Ruth Anna Burch is an independent academic researcher and translator. She is also the Assistant Editor of the Journal Existenz (www.existenz.us) which focuses on contemporary research on Karl Jaspers written in English language. She was awarded her PhD in Philosophy from Warwick University in 2009 for her thesis "Is Donna Haraway’s ‘Situated Knowledge’ Nietzschean ‘Gay Science’?". Together with Helmut Wautischer she translated into English Karl Jaspers’ ‘Preface’ and ‘Introduction’ to his book “Die grossen Philosophen” (1957)/“The Great Philosophers” (1965), edited by Hannah Arendt. She published the article ‘On Nietzsche’s Concept of “European Nihilism”’.