"This book addresses the quite timely question of the place of Nietzsche's thought with respect to the Western tradition; the question whether Nietzsche defines or denies the very notion of philosophy as a tradition. With recent shifts in philosophical movements, especially those following in the wake of Heidegger, Nietzsche's work, always of interest, takes on a new and enlarged significance. The topic is extraordinarily timely and significant not just to these times." -- Dennis J. Schmidt, State University of New York at Binghamton
The contributors discuss the current debate about what philosophy is, how it works, and how Nietzsche's thought clarifies or complicates its understanding. They represent a wide range of views and practices, some aggressively postmodern in their approach, some profoundly skeptical about postmodernism. Although the issue of postmodernism is the central focus, the essays also touch on many other areas of interest to readers of Nietzsche.
Clayton Koelb is Professor of German and Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago.
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: So What's the Story?
Clayton Koelb
Part 1: Postmodern Perspectives
1. Redeeming Revenge: Nietzsche, Benjamin, Heidegger, and the Politics of Memory
Rebecca Comay
2. Translating, Repeating, Naming: Foucault, Derrida, and The Genealogy of Morals
Gary Shapiro
3. Nietzsche's Madman: Perspectivism without Nihilism
Debra B. Bergoffen
Part 2: Deconstruction
4. Language and Deconstruction: Nietzsche, de Man, and Postmodernism
Maudemarie Clark
5. Nietzsche contra Nietzsche: The Deconstruction of Zarathustra
Daniel W. Conway
6. De Man Missing Nietzsche: Hinzugedichtet Revisited
Richard H. Weisberg
Part 3: Reading, Writing, and Rhetoric
7. The Dance from Mouth to Hand (Speaking Zarathustra's Write Foot ForeWord)
Graham Parkes
8. Reading as a Philosophical Strategy: Nietzsche's The Gay Science
Clayton Koelb
9. Nietzsche's Physiology of Ideological Criticism
Claudia Crawford
Part 4: Versions of the Self
10. Nietzsche and Postmodern Subjectivity
Kathleen Higgins
11. The Mask of Nietzsche's Self-Overcoming
Charles E. Scott
12. Zarathustra's Three Metamorphoses
Robert Gooding-Williams
Part 5: Postmodernism Pro and Contra
13. Nietzsche and the Condition of Postmodern Thought: Post-Nietzschean Postmodernism
Babette E. Babich
14. Nietzsche, Postmodernism, and Resentment: A Genealogical Hypothesis
Robert C. Solomon
Notes
Notes on Contributors
Index
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