Letter from Fanon to Shariati
Fanon’s letter to Shariati (1961)
Month: April 2017
Anupama Rao | The Global Nietzsche (précis)
by Anupama Rao As someone who works in South Asia, on questions of caste and political subjectivity, I am interested in what we can learn from thinking about South Asia through Nietzsche, and vice versa. Especially because the latter question,… Continue Reading
Jens Hanssen | Nietzsche and the 20th-century Arab Intellectual Tradition (précis)
By Jens Hanssen “Übrigens ist mir alles verhasst, was mich bloss belehrt, ohne meine Tätigkeit zu vermehren oder unmittelbar zu beleben.”[1] This is the opening line of Frederick Nietzsche’s “Of the Uses and Disadvantages of History for Life.” Of all… Continue Reading
Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi | Ali Shari‘ati (précis)
By Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi The Iranian public intellectual, sociologist, and lay theologian, Ali Shari‘ati (1933-1977) was one of the most significant figures in conceptualizing Islam as a political ideology. Drawing from multiple philosophical traditions, he rearticulated key concepts in Islamic theology in… Continue Reading
Jesús R Velasco | Introduction
By Jesús R. Velasco Welcome to Nietzsche 12/13 Let me begin with Cixous. But not with her reading of Clarice Lispector. Not with her art of reading. Rather, with some letters from the prehistory, as she called them, letters from… Continue Reading
Jens Hanssen
Jens Hanssen is Associate Professor of Arab Civilization, Middle Eastern and Mediterranean history in the departments of Historical Studies (UTM), History and Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations. In the St. George History Department he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on… Continue Reading
Helene Cixous | The Laugh of the Medusa
The Laugh of the Medusa
Vered Engelhard | Nietzsche After Sexual Difference
“Do you prefer to spill over or to taste your depths? When you soar highest, where do you go?” Marine Lover of Friederich Nietzsche Allow us the gesture of reading Nietzsche after feminism, or else, of returning to… Continue Reading
Jared Sacks | Against Essentialism? Going Deeper…
One of the themes that emerged from Nietzsche 6/13 on Césaire, Nietzsche, and the Struggle Against Colonialism, is the question of “essentialism”. In popular discourse, responses to anti-black racism often bring forth accusations of ‘counter’ or ‘reverse’ racism. In academia,… Continue Reading
Jared Sacks | Review of “Poetry and Knowledge”
Review of “Poetry and Knowledge” by Aimé Césaire Poetic knowledge is born in the great silence of scientific knowledge. – Aimé Césaire (1990, p.17) The science versus art dichotomy is not a new one. It resonates closely… Continue Reading