Why Nietzsche Now? / edited by Daniel O'Hara.

• TeilnehmendeR: O'Hara, Daniel T., 1948-
• Place / Publishing House: Bloomington : : Indiana University Press,, 1985.; ©1985.
• Year of Publication: 1985
• Edition: 1st cloth ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (1 online resource xii, 441 pages) :; portraits)

Why has Nietzsche recently emerged as an important figure of reference in the critical discourse about contemporary culture? Major commentaries on Nietzsche by Heidegger and Derrida, among others, have provoked much current debate about the meaning and present-day relevance of Nietzsche's writings. Is Nietzsche the philosopher of the will to dominate the earth through science and technology, as characterized by Heidegger, or is he the playful deconstructive genealogist of the historical will to power, as construed by Derrida? In this valuable volume, distinguished philosophers and literary theorists address these issues through readings of Nietzsche's major texts, analyses of his positions in relation to precursors and inheritors, and assessments of the critical impact of Nietzsche's thought. Contributors include David Allison, Charles Altieri, Jonathan Arac, Paul Bove, Joseph Buttigieg, Stanley Corngold, Rudolph Gasche, Martin Heidegger, David Farrell Krell, Rudolph E. Kuenzli, George McFadden, J. Hillis Miller, Daniel T. O'Hara, Joseph Riddell, Gary Shapiro, Hugh J. Silverman, Tracy B. Strong, and Cornel West.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: The prophet of our laughter: or Nietzsche as -educator? / Daniel T. O'Hara -- 2. Readings: Tragedy, satyr-play, and telling silence in Nietzsche's thought of eternal recurrence (translated by David Farrell Krell) / Martin Heidegger -- Dismembering and disremembering in Nietzsche's "On truth and lies in a nonmoral sense" / J. Hillis Miller -- The question of the self in Nietzsche during the axial period (1882-1888) / Stanley Corngold -- Nietzsche's zerography: Thus spoke Zarathustra / Rudolf E. Kuenzli -- Nietzsche's graffito: a reading of The antichrist / Gary Shapiro -- The autobiographical textuality of Nietzsche's Ecce homo / Hugh J. Silverman -- 3. Affinities and differences: Der Maulwurf: die philosophische Wühlarbeit bei Kant, Hegel und Nietzsche (The mole: philosophic burrowing in Kant, Hegel, and Nietzsche) / David Farrell Krell -- The struggle against meta (Phantasma) physics: Nietzsche, Joyce, and the "excess of history" / Joseph Buttigieg -- "Neo-Nietzschean clatter" -speculation and the modernist poetic image / Joseph Riddel -- Nietzsche's prefiguration of postmodern American philosophy / Cornel West -- Autobiography as Gestalt: Nietzsche's Ecce homo / Rodolphe Gasche -- 4. Critiques: Nietzsche knows no Noumenon / David Allison -- Oedipus as hero: family and family metaphors in Nietzsche / Tracy B. Strong -- Nietzschean values in comic writing / George McFadden -- Mendacious innocents, or, The modern genealogist as conscientious intellectual: Nietzsche, Foucault, Said / Paul Bove -- Ecce homo: narcissism, power, pathos, and the status of autobiographical representations / Charles Altieri -- Aesthetics, rhetoric, history: Paul de Man and the American use of Nietzsche / Jonathan Arac.