Nietzsche's Case: Philosophy As/and Literature

by Magnus,Bernd

• ISBN13: 9780415900959
• ISBN10: 0415900956
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1992-10-22
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Combines the multiple perspectives of Bernd Magnus, a philosopher and Nietzsche scholar, Jean-Pierre Mileur, a critical theorist/ Romaticist, and Stanley Stewart, a Renaissance literary scholar.

Table of Contents

Bibliographic Note
Acknowledgments
Pre(post)face: Confessing/Professing Collaboration	p. 1
The "Problem of Style" in Nietzsche's Philosophy/The "Problem of Philosophy" in Nietzsche's Style	p. 7
The Body of Thought	p. 7
Baiting the Hook: Digressing to Derrida	p. 11
Inscribing the Textual Body	p. 16
A Fish Story: Self-Consuming Concepts	p. 21
The Corpus of Thought: A Textual/Philological Supplement	p. 35
The Present Philological Situation	p. 37
Prophecy's Voice/Voicing Prophecy: A Genealogy of Literary-Philosophical Prophetics	p. 47
The Rhetoric of Crisis	p. 47
Knowledge and the Sacred Text	p. 52
Idolatry as Philosophic Occasion: The Case of Bacon	p. 61
The Philosopher as Evangelist: The Quest for Audience	p. 77
New New Testaments: Writing in Blood	p. 94
Contemptus Mundi: The World as Disciple	p. 94
Eternal Recurrence of the Similar	p. 107
Two Types of Messianism: Nietzsche and Lawrence	p. 119
The Philosophy of Composition/The Composition of Philosophy	p. 133
Philosophy as/and Literature	p. 133
Hyperbole and the Case of Eternal Recurrence	p. 138
The (De)composition of Philosophy	p. 146
Thus Spoke Zarathustra: The Envoi and the Problem of Being	p. 155
Authorial Withholding and the Reader's Share	p. 162
Reading Ascetic Reading: Toward the Genealogy of Morals and the Path Back to the World	p. 186
A Genealogy of Genealogy	p. 186
A Genealogy of Composition/Decomposition	p. 194
Figures of Figuration Figuring: Asceticism and Commentary	p. 215
Post(pre)face: The Body of Thought Redux	p. 234
Notes	p. 257
Index	p. 278
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