Why Nietzsche Still?

by Schrift, Alan D.

• ISBN13: 9780520218529
• ISBN10: 0520218523
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-02-01
• Publisher: Univ of California Pr

Summary

Why Nietzsche still? These essays by a distinguished group of contributors suggest a number of answers. They show that Nietzsche still has a great deal to say to those who read him with an eye toward developing critical responses to our present and the future that will follow. Alan D. Schrift's goal in assembling these stimulating essays, all but one of them written for the volume, is to display the multifaceted nature of Nietzsche's reflections, to demonstrate Nietzsche's relevance for contemporary reflections on the dramas of culture at the start of the third millennium, and to exhibit the range of innovative and exciting Nietzsche scholarship that is being carried out across the humanities and social sciences in the English-speaking world. Whether at the aesthetic, cultural, psychological, or political level, Nietzsche's thought clearly offers a critical focus for analyzing the ongoing dramas of culture as these dramas inform and influence what today we frame as "political."

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xi
Abbreviations	xiii
Introduction: Why Nietzsche Still?	1	(14)
Alan D. Schrift
PART ONE. DRAMA
Oedipal Dramas	15	(13)
Debra B. Bergoffen
Odysseus Bound?	28	(17)
Daniel W. Conway
Nietzsche's Shakespearean Figures	45	(21)
Duncan Large
Musical Psychodramatics: Ecstasis in Nietzsche	66	(13)
David B. Allison
``This Is Not a Christ'': Nietzsche, Foucault, and the Genealogy of Vision	79	(20)
Gary Shapiro
Zarathustrian Millennialism before the Millennium: From Bely to Yeats to Malraux	99	(22)
John Burt Foster, Jr.
PART TWO. CULTURAL DRAMATICS
Circuits of Bad Conscience: Nietzsche and Freud	121	(15)
Judith Butler
Dramatis Personae: Nietzsche, Culture, and Human Types	136	(18)
David Owen
Aaron Ridley
Satyrs and Centaurs: Miscegenation and the Master Race	154	(16)
Alphonso Lingis
Nietzsche and the Problem of the Actor	170	(14)
Paul Patton
Nietzsche's Contest: Nietzsche and the Culture Wars	184	(21)
Alan D. Schrift
PART THREE. CULTURE AND THE POLITICAL
Nietzsche for Politics	205	(19)
Wendy Brown
Democratizing the Agon: Nietzsche, Arendt, and the Agonistic Tendency in Recent Political Theory	224	(23)
Dana R. Villa
``A Nietzschean Breed'': Feminism, Victimology, Ressentiment	247	(27)
Rebecca Stringer
Performing Resentment: White Male Anger; or, ``Lack'' and Nietzschean Political Theory	274	(19)
Jeffrey T. Nealon
Contributors	293	(4)
Index	297