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

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 writi...

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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)
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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.