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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Faulkner, Joanne, author.

Series:

Series in Continental thought ; 38.

Series in continental thought ; number 38

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Subjectivity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900.

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (221 p.)

Other Title:

Necromantic art of reading philosophy

Place of Publication:

Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2010]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Dead Letters to Nietzsche examines how writing shapes subjectivity through the example of Nietzsche's reception by his readers, including Stanley Rosen, David Farrell Krell, Georges Bataille, Laurence Lampert, Pierre Klossowski, and Sarah Kofman. More precisely, Joanne Faulkner finds that the personal identification that these readers form with Nietzsche's texts is an enactment of the kind of identity-formation described in Lacanian and Kleinian psychoanalysis. This investment of their subjectivity guides their understanding of Nietzsche's project, the revaluation of values. Not only does th

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 mépris 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.

Notes:

"Earlier versions of some of the material in this book have been published in the form of articles"--Acknowledgments.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780821443293

0821443291

OCLC:

884016873