A Nietzschean Bestiary Becoming Animal Beyond Docile and Brutal

by Acampora, Christa Davis; Acampora, Ralph R.; Babbich, Babette; Bergoffen, Debra; Brobjer, Thomas H.; Conway, Daniel; Crowley, Brian; Domino, Brian; Groff, Peter; Ham, Jennifer; Hatab, Lawrence; Higgins, Kathleen Marie; Lemm, Vanessa; Loeb, Paul S.; Pappas

• ISBN13: 9780742514263
• ISBN10: 0742514269
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-12-09
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

Nietzsche's use of metaphor has been widely noted but rarely focused to explore specific images in great detail. A Nietzschean Bestiary gathers essays devoted to the most notorious and celebrated beasts in Nietzsche's work. The essays illustrate Nietzsche's ample use of animal imagery, and link it to the dual philosophical purposes of recovering and revivifying human animality, which plays a significant role in his call for de-deifying nature. Visit our website for sample chapters!

Table of Contents

Abbreviations	xiii
Translations	xv
Acknowledgments	xix
Introduction	xxi
Christa Davis Acampora and Ralph R. Acampora
Nietzsche's Feral Philosophy: Thinking through an Animal Imaginary	1	(16)
Ralph R. Acampora
Part I: On "Lowly" Origins
Ape
Who Is Zarathustra's Ape?
Peter S. Groff	17	(15)
Camel
A Sketch (Riß) of the Camel in Zarathustra
Charles S. Taylor	32	(10)
Polyp
Polyp Man
Brian Domino	42	(11)
Part II: Zarathustra's Animals
Dog
Dogs, Domestication, and the Ego
Gary Shapiro	53	(8)
Spider
Arachnophobe or Arachnophile? Nietzsche and His Spiders
Alan D. Schrift	61	(10)
Snake
The Eternal-Serpentine
Nickolas Pappas	71	(12)
Bird
The Halcyon Tone as Birdsong
Gary Shapiro	83	(6)
Cow
"Even Better than a Cow, O Zarathustra!"
Tracey Stark	89	(11)
Ass
Nietzsche and the Mystery of the Ass
Kathleen Marie Higgins	100	(21)
Part III: Beasts of Prey
Lion
Zarathustra's Laughing Lions
Paul S. Loeb	121	(19)
Blond Beast
Nietzsche's "Blond Beast": On the Recuperation of a Nietzschean Metaphor
Gerd Schank	140	(16)
Beasts of Prey
How We Became What We Are: Tracking the "Beasts of Prey"
Daniel W. Conway	156	(25)
Part IV: Human Animals (Unter, Halb, and Uber)
Woman
Women as Predatory Animals, or Why Nietzsche Philosophized with a Whip
Thomas H. Brobjer	181	(12)
Woman
Circe's Truth: On the Way to Animals and Women
Jennifer Ham	193	(18)
Satyr
Human-Animalny in Nietzsche
Lawrence J. Hatab	211	(9)
Overhuman
The Overhuman Animal
Vanessa Lemm	220	(23)
Part V: Animal Nietzsche
Mole
On Nietzsche's Moles
Debra B. Bergoffen	243	(8)
Cat
The Cat at Play: Nietzsche's Feline Styles
Martha Kendal Woodruff	251	(13)
Lizard
Nietzsche's göttliche Eidechsen: "Divine Lizards," "Greene Lyons," and Music
Babette E. Babich	264	(21)
Afterword
Paws, Claws, Jaws, and Such: Interpretation and Metaphoric Modalities
Christa Davis Acampora	285	(16)
Bibliographic Essay
Traces of the Beast: Becoming Nietzsche, Becoming Animal, and the Figure of the Transhuman
Jami Weinstein	301
Sources for the Metamorphoses: The Ages of Man and the Three Metamorphoses of the Spirit
Richard Perkins	319	(10)
Index to Animals in Nietzsche's Corpus
Brian Crowley	329	(32)
General Index	361	(6)
About the Contributors	367