Reading Nietzsche at the Margins

by Hicks, Steven V.; Rosenberg, Alan

• ISBN13: 9781557534514
• ISBN10: 1557534519
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-03-31
• Publisher: Purdue Univ Pr

Summary

This book brings together essays from leading Nietzsche scholars to examine a variety of key ideas in Nietzsche's writings that have been marginalized or slighted because they do not fit neatly into any of the usual categories of Nietzsche scholarship. The essays open up fresh perspectives on Nietzsche and will inspire constructive debate about his relevance to a variety of current philosophical, political, social, and cultural concerns.

Author Biography

Steven V. Hicks is the Chair of Philosophy department at Queens College of the City University of New York. He is the author of numerous journal articles and book chapters on Hegel, Nietzsche, and nineteenth-century German philosophy and literature. His books include International Law and the Possibility of a Just World Order (1999), Mythos and Logos: How to Regain the Love of Wisdom (2004), and The Challenges of Globalization: Rethinking Nature, Culture, and Freedom (forthcoming). He is the editor of the book series Universal Justice. Alan Rosenberg is Professor of Philosophy at Queens College of the City University of New York. He is the co-author of over 80 journal articles and book chapters and the co-editor of several books.

Table of Contents

About the Contributors	p. vii
Abbreviations of Nietzsche's Texts	p. xi
Editorial Introduction	p. 1
Prefacing the Margins: A Beginning at Self-Disclosure: Nietzsche on Resolution, Memory, and Autocritique
"Resolution and Autocritique in the Late Prefaces"	p. 13
"Forgetting the Subject"	p. 34
Laughing at the Margins: Nietzsche's Tragic/Comic Sense of Life
"Suffering in Nietzsche's Philosophy"	p. 59
"To Laugh Out of the Whole Truth: Nietzsche as Tragicomic Satyr"	p. 73
"Awaiting Love: Nietzsche's (Com)Passion"	p. 86
Spirit at the Margins: Mimesis, Music, and the Art of Self-Fashioning
"Mimetic Geist"	p. 105
"Nietzsche on Music"	p. 115
"Nietzsche and the Transfiguration of Asceticism: An Ethics of Self-Fashioning"	p. 135
Natural and Cultural Expressions of Marginal Forces: Nietzsche on War, Ecology, and Geophilosophy
"Nietzsche and Ecology: A Critical Inquiry"	p. 165
"Assassins and Crusaders: Nietzsche after 9/11"	p. 186
"The Convalescent: Geographies of Health and Illness"	p. 205
Index	p. 219
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