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Course Description
9677 - Nietzsche in nuce - This course focuses on Nietzsche's oeuvre, taken as the thin median of the hourglass through which Western thought sifted itself to reach the twentieth century. Thus, from the early Romantic years which learned how to bow down to Schopenhauer and Wagner up to the fragmented decadence of 1889, we will deal with regimes of intensity and the lack of apocrypha, with breathless Christianity and stormy prophecy, with the aesthetic age and the annihilation of all values, with aphorism and lyricism that look forward and backward without invoking guilt, excuse or dialectics as anything else but straw men of lame history. The power of the aphorism-the in nuce expression of essence-guides this curriculum.
The sessions will tackle: Selections from Nietzsche's Notebooks of the early 1870's, The Birth of Tragedy, Twilight of the Idols, The Anti-Christ, Ecce homo, On the Genealogy of Morals, Beyond Good and Evil, Zarathrustra, The Gay Science, Unfashionable Observations, The Will to Power.
Secondary literature will include biographical works by Safranski and Small, and critical works by Bowie, de Man, Deleuze, Derrida, Foucault, Heidegger, Kofman, Klossovski, Lefèbvre, Megill, Olkowski, Gr. Smith and Stambaugh, among others.
Background readings from Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard and Dostoevsky will also be required.
Bibliography
Primary:
- Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, Werke in drei Bänden. 2nd rev. ed. Ed. by Karl Schlechta. München: Hanser, 1960-2
- ___, Werke: kritische Gesamtausgabe. 32 vols. Ed. by Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari. Berlin and New York: de Gruyter, 1967-
- ___, Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks. Trans. by Marianne Cowan: Chicago: Gateway, 1962
- ___, The Birth of Tragedy. 1872/1878. Trans. Walter Kaufmann. New York: Random, 1967
- ___, The Will to Power. Trans. and ed. by Walter Kaufmann and R.J. Hollingdale
- ___, Twilight of the Idols; The Anti-Christ. Trans. by R.J. Hollingdale. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968
- ___, Basic Writings. Trans. and ed. by Walter Kaufmann. New York: Modern Library, 1968
- ___, On the Genealogy of Morals. Trans. by Walter Kaufmann. New York: Vintage, 1969
- ___, Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future. Trans. and ed. by R.J. Hollingdale.
- Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1973
- ___, The Gay Science. Trans. and ed. by Walter Kaufmann. New York: Random House, 1974
- ___, Philosophy and Truth: Selections from Nietzsche's Notebooks of the early 1870's. Trans. and ed. by Daniel Breazale. Atlantic Highlands: Humanities Press, 1979
- ___, Friedrich Nietzsche on Rhetoric and Language. Trans. and ed. by Sander L. Gilman et al.. New York: Oxford UP, 1989
- ___, Human, All Too Human. Trans. by R.J. Hollingdale; intro. Richard Schacht. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1996 (1986)
- ___, Unfashionable Observations. Trans. by Richard T. Gray. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1995
- ___, Selections. Hammer of the Gods. Trans. and ed. by Stephen Metcalf. London: Creation Books, 1996
- ___, Ecce Homo. Trans. by R.J. Hollingdale. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1979
Biography:
- Safranski, Rüdiger, Nietzsche: a philosophical biography; translated by Shelley Frisch. New York: W.W. Norton, 2002 B3317 .S2413
- Small, Robin, Nietzsche and Rée: a star friendship. Oxford: Clarendon P; Oxford; New York: Oxford UP, 2005 B3317 .S586 2005
- Nolte, Ernst, Nietzsche und der Nietzscheanismus. Frankfurt: Propyläen, 1990 B3316.N65
- Pozzoli, Claudio, ed., Nietzsche nei ricordi e nelle testimonianze dei contemporanei. Milano: Biblioteca universale Rizzoli, 1990 B3316.N54
- Rogé, Jacques, Le syndrome de Nietzsche. Paris: O. Jacob, 1999 B3316 .R59
- Verrecchia, Anacleto, La catastrofe di Nietzsche a Torino. Torino: G. Einaudi, 1978 B3316 .V47
References:
- Behler, Ernst, Derrida, Nietzsche, Nietzsche, Derrida. Trans. by Steven Taubeneck. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1991
- Bowie, Andrew, Aesthetics and Subjectivity: from Kant to Nietzsche. Manchester and New York: Manchester P, 1990
- de Man, Paul, Allegories of Reading. Figural Language in Rousseau, Nietzsche, Rilke, and Proust. New Haven and London: Yale UP, 1979
- Delaunay, Marc B. "Deleuze et Nietzsche ou l'inverse..." Magazine Littéraire, 1988, Sept., 257: 44?6
- Deleuze, Gilles, Nietzsche and Philosophy. Trans. (of Nietzsche et la philosophie, Paris, NRF, 1964) by Hugh Tomlinson. New York: Columbia UP, 1983
- Derrida, Jacques, Otobiographies: l'enseignement de Nietzsche et la politique du nom propre. Paris: Galilée, 1984
- ___, The Ear of the Other: otobiography, transference, translation: texts and discussions with Jacques Derrida / English edition edited by Christie V. McDonald; translated by Peggy Kamuf. New York: Schocken Books, 1985 CT25.D4713
- Foucault, Michel, Language, Counter-memory, Practice: selected essays and interviews. Donald F. Bouchard, ed.; trans. Donald F. Bouchard & Sherry Simon. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1977
- Graybeal, Jean, Language and "the Feminine" in Nietzsche and Heidegger. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1990
- Grosz, E. A., The Nick of Time: politics, evolution, and the untimely. Durham: Duke UP, 2004 BD638 .G74
- Heidegger, Martin, Nietzsche. 1961. Trans. by David Farrell Krell. 4 vols. New York: Harper & Row, 1979-87; published as 2 pbk. vols. in 1991
- Koecke, Christian, Zeit des Ressentiments, Zeit der Erlösung: Nietzsches Typologie temporaler Interpretation und ihre Aufhebung in der Zeit. Berlin; New York: W. de Gruyter, 1994 (Monographien und Texte zur
Nietzsche-Forschung; Bd. 29) B3318.T5 K64 - Kofman, Sarah, Explosion I. De l'Ecce Homo de Nietzsche. Paris: Galilée, 1992
- ___, Explosion II. Les enfants de Nietzsche. Paris: Galilée, 1993
- ___, "A Fantastical Genealogy: Nietzsche's Family Romance." In Nietzsche and the Feminine, ed. by Peter J. Burgard. Charlottesville: UP of Virginia, 1994: 35?52
- ___, "Wagner's Ascetic Ideal According to Nietzsche." 1992. Trans. by David Blacker and Jessica
- George. In Nietzsche, Genealogy, Morality: Essays on Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals, ed. by Richard Schacht. Berkeley: U of California P, 1994: 193?213
- Klossovski, Pierre, Nietzsche et le cercle vicieux. Paris: Mercure de France, 1969
- Lefèbvre, Henri, Hegel - Marx - Nietzsche, ou le royaume des ombres. Tournai-Paris: Casterman, 1975
- Megill, Allan, Prophets of Extremity: Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault, Derrida. Berkeley, L.A. & London: California UP, 1985
- Olkowski, Dorothea, "Nietzsche's Dice Throw: Tragedy, Nihilism, and the Body without Organs." In Boundas & Olkowski, eds., 1994, 119?40
- Pecora, Vincent P., "Deleuze's Nietzsche and Post?Structuralist Thought." SubStance, 1986, 14:3 (48): 34?50
- Perry, Petra, "Deleuze's Nietzsche." Boundary?2 1993 Spring, 20:1, 174?91
- Smith, Gregory B., Nietzsche, Heidegger, and the Transition to Postmodernity. Chicago: U of Chicago P,1996
- Stambaugh, Joan, The problem of time in Nietzsche; tr. John F. Humphrey. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press; London; Cranbury, NJ: Associated University Presses, 1987. B3318.T5 S713
