Yunus Tuncel, Ph.D., is a co-founder of the Nietzsche Circle based in New York City and serves on its Board of Directors and the Editorial Board of its electronic journal, The Agonist. His doctoral dissertation on Nietzsche’s philosophy is entitled “The Principle of Agon in Nietzsche’s Thought.” (The New School for Social Research, 2000). Dr. Tuncel has been teaching philosophy at the New School University’s General Studies Division since 1999. He also teaches at NYU and Pace University. In addition to typical philosophy classes, he teaches inter-disciplinary topical classes on power, taboo & transgression, gai saber & the troubadours, crime & punishment, and spectacle. In addition to Nietzsche and history of philosophy, he is interested in the twentieth century French thought. His first Philomobile class, which was on Nietzsche, was undertaken in May 2010. He has recently finished the manuscripts for a book on Nietzsche. His areas of research are art, culture, myth, and spectacle. He is interested in the fusion of art (all forms of art) and philosophy in various cultural formations.