By Joseph F. Lawless I will be speaking about the gift, about what it has meant and what it might mean to be situated within the gift event, about the discourse of gift-giving manifest within the work of Nietzsche and… Continue Reading
Nietzsche and Metaphor is Sarah Kofman’s attempt at a “Nietzschean reading of Nietzsche” (Kofman 1993, p.xxii). Whereas a significant amount of work on his thought is concerned with his larger ideas (Übermensch, Eternal Return, etc), Kofman’s is a primarily textual… Continue Reading
The philosopher Peter Hallward has explained that Frantz Fanon’s diagnosis of colonialism is “first and foremost an immense project to break the will of the colonised people” (2011, p.109). In other words, colonialism according to Fanon, was and attempt to… Continue Reading
Contempt for the “Fake Culture of Educated Talk” and “Facts as Such”: An Arendtian Analysis of Trump’s Election and Post-Truth Politics The victory of presidential elect Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton took the media and the American public by… Continue Reading
On the Gynecology of Morals: Nietzsche and Cixous on the Logic of the Gift by Alan D. Schrift from Nietzsche and the Feminine, ed. by Peter J. Burgard