About Tim Rayner
Welcome to my world.
I was born in Auckland, New Zealand, in the shadow of fifty two volcanoes, an experience relieved only by formative stints in Indonesia and the UK. After high school, I pursued a musical career until my hormones settled down, then enrolled in university as an English major to train for an honest job. This was not to be. Philosophy had its hooks in me before I could pronounce ‘existentialism’. The subsequent decade was a blur of deconstructive analysis and Nietzschean critique.
In 1999, my partner, Dawn, and I moved to Sydney, Australia. I completed a PhD at The University of Sydney (2003) and taught courses on political and European philosophy at USYD and UNSW. I’ve published various academic papers and a book, Foucault’s Heidegger: Philosophy and Transformative Experience (Continuum 2007).
Recently I decided to devote time to non-academic pursuits as well as strictly academic ones. Creative instincts I’d held in check cried out for new forms of expression. I started work on a novel: The Beautiful Soul was the result.
I’m currently developing a book and workshop program in practical philosophy, called Philosophy for Change. I am teaching Philosophy for Change at the Centre for Continuing Education, USYD, in the early and middle part of 2008. For details on these classes, see the Continuing Education website.
If you’d like to contact me, my email address is tim at timrayner dot net.
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The novel looks cool. Are you going to be doing research for the next one during your trip to the US next year?
hey, I just put an order in to buy your transformative experience book. Looks fascinating!
US research? Absolutely. First, though, I’ll need to visit half a dozen sites on the east coast to check that my Google Maps research for the last one was correct. I tried to locate the action in real sites, which took some imagination since I was viewing them from 200 ft in the air!