Ryan J. Johnson is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Elon University in North Carolina. He is the author of The Deleuze-Lucretius Encounter (EUP, 2017) and Nietzsche and Epicurus (Bloomsbury, 2020). He is co-editor of Contemporary Encounters with Ancient Metaphysics (EUP, 2017) and The Movement of Nothingness (Davies Group Publishers, 2012).