Dead letters to Nietzsche ; : or, The necromantic art of reading philosophy / / Joanne Faulkner.

• Superior document: Series in continental thought ; number 38
• VerfasserIn: Faulkner, Joanne,
• Place / Publishing House: Athens, Ohio : : Ohio University Press,, [2010]; 2010
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Series in Continental thought ; 38.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (221 pages) :; illustrations.
• Notes: "Earlier versions of some of the material in this book have been published in the form of articles"--Acknowledgments.

Table of Contents

• Introduction: the quickened and the dead
• Ontology for philologists : Nietzsche, body, subject
• "Be your self!" : Nietzsche as educator
• The life of thought : Nietzsche's truth perspectivism and the will to power
• Of slaves and masters : the birth of good and evil
• Moments of excess : the making and unmaking of the subject
• Lacan, desire, and the originating function of loss
• The word that sees me : the nexus of image and sign
• The nothing as the reverse side of Lacan's mirror
• Nietzsche is dead, long live Nietzsche : in memory of paternal ghosts
• The "insiders" : Nietzsche's secret teaching and the invention of "the philosopher of the future"
• Finding one's home in the nothingness of Nietzsche's text
• Nietzsche's excessive demand and the question of the adulterous queen's desire
• High and low : the hierarchical structure of Nietzsche's texts
• Inside and outside : Nietzsche "incorporated"; or, Who incorporates whom in the act of reading Nietzsche?
• The father's indulgence of the prodigal son : ambiguity and the limits of "the position"
• The contagion of affect in Netzsche : Klein, Krell, Bataille
• Doing time with Melanie Klein : renouncing "the bad breast," mourning the loss of "the good breast"
• "Motivating this writing ... is a fear of going crazy" : how Klein might read Georges Bataille sur Nietzsche
• David Farrell Krell's "novel" approach to reading Nietzsche
• Family romances and textual encounters : Sarah Kofman reading Nietzsche
• Reading Nietzsche I : explosions
• Autobiography or autothanography : killing with words in Rue Ordener, Rue Labat
• Reading Nietzsche II : le mepris des juifs; Nietzsche, les juifs, l'anti-semitisme
• The vision, the riddle, and the vicious circle : Pierre Klossowski's reading of Nietzsche's sick body
• On the continuity and disjunction between the body and language
• Exquisite delirium : the thought of eternal return
• The conspiracy of philosopher/villains : Nietzsche/Klossowski/Sade
• From cannibalism to voodoo : the creation and control of the subject of Nietzsche's writing.