Nietzsche - Revision [Full]

Journal of Nietzsche Studies

Journal of Nietzsche Studies, 2010

Review of third, expanded edition of Danto's Nietzsche as Philosopher

Philosophy in Review, 2010

AGONAL PERSPECTIVES ON NIETZSCHE'S PHILOSOPHY O CRITICAL TRANSVALUATION, 2021

The chapters of this book draw in different ways on published and unpublished material, as indicated below.The author would like to thank the publishers for permitting the use of published material. Chapter 1i sb asedo narevised version of "Nietzsche'sH ammer: Philosophy,D estruction, or TheA rt of Limited Warfare",i n Tijdschrift voor Filosofie 60/2,1 998, pp. 321-347. Chapter 2i sb asedo nar evised and expanded version of the chapter "Nietzsche'sAgon",first published in TheNietzschean Mind,ed.

il s'agit du point irréductible extrême où le geste est un corps, un espace, une figure. l'extrême irréductible de tel point est son obscénité: ce point-là n'est ni physique ni géométrique; il est la mémoire de ce qu'est le mouvement dans tout corps. Mais ce dernier est aussi bien affecté de cette mémoire inverse: le corps est une limite dans le mouvement. Cette réversion est infinie.

Essays in Philosophy, 2003

Maybe we did not need another book on Nietzsche. The philosopher who famously despised scholarship and scholars has been the occasion of more ink spilled by academics than perhaps any other thinker of the modern period. And although much of the recent work on Nietzsche should be counted among the best books yet written on his thought-I am thinking of Kathleen Higgins' Comic Relief (2000), for example, and Brian Leiter's Nietzsche on Morality (2002)-one sometimes wonders if there is anything original left to say about what already has been so overwrought. But then along comes a book like Safranski's Nietzsche and the great German iconoclast (that's Nietzsche, not Safranski) is fresh for us again. Safranski is good at this: his well-received biographies of Schopenhauer and Heidegger were similarly refreshing books to read, tying together the life and thought of those two figures in a way that no one had successfully done before (indeed, when speaking of either Schopenhauer or Heidegger, one tends to avoid discussing their lives-especially in Heidegger's case). And although it is true that we have several good and-in the work of Curt Paul Janz, for exampleeven excellent biographies of Nietzsche, Safranski is the first to tease the strange and often shocking philosophical ideas of Nietzsche out of his rather comparatively mild and conservative life.

“warum ich diesen mißrathenen Satz schuf”. Ways of reading Nietzsche in the light of KGW IX {mit Axel Pichler}, in: Journal of Nietzsche Studies, Bd. 44:1 (Winter 2013), 90-109., 2013

When examining Nietzsche's Nachlass from 1885-89, international Nietzsche scholarship still predominantly relies on the Colli/Montinari edition of these writings (the "Nachgelassene Fragmente"), even though a new historico-critical edition of the Nachlass that fulfills the standards of current textual criticism is being published since 2001: KGW IX. In this article we want to outline the philological considerations that led to this new critical edition with its "diplomatic transcription" of Nietzsche's late "manuscripts." In a second step, we demonstrate the consequences of KG W IX for the interpretation of Nietzsche's Nachlass and his late published writings. It is our aim to show that the complexity of Nietzsche's writing in his sketches and drafts from 1885-89 makes any philosophical approach untenable that ignores this complexity - at least under a philological perspective.