Joyce's Nietzschean Ethics

by Slote, Sam

• ISBN13: 9781137366221
• ISBN10: 1137366222
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2013-10-24
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This is the first book-length treatment of James Joyce's multiplicity of styles through the work of Friedrich Nietzsche, the pre-eminent philosopher of style and perspectivism. Sam Slote argues that the range of styles Joyce deploys throughout his works has an ethical dimension. Rather than an influence study, this book concerns Joyce's engagement with issues and problems that are central throughout Nietzsche's works. Ultimately, the intersection between Joyce and Nietzsche raises questions of epistemology, aesthetics, ethics and the construction of the 'Modern' and thus should be of interest to a wide range of readers and scholars.

Author Biography

Sam Slote is Associate Professor in the School of English at Trinity College, Ireland. He is the author of The Silence in Progress of Dante, Mallarmé, and Joyce and 'Ulysses' in the Plural: The Variable Editions of Joyce's Novel and the co-editor of How Joyce Wrote 'Finnegans Wake': A Chapter-by-Chapter Genetic Guide, Genitricksling Joyce, and Probes: Genetic Studies in Joyce.

Table of Contents

1: 'James Overman': Joyce Reading Nietzsche
2: Ecce Auctor: Self-Creation in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
3: Aufhebung Baby: Auto-genesis and Alterity in Ulysses
4: Joyce's Multifarious Styles in Ulysses
5: Also Sprach Molly Bloom
6: The Gay Science of Finnegans Wake