By Michael Milov-Cordoba In last week’s session of Nietzsche 13/13, each of the five presenters attempted to characterize the peculiar form of Irigaray’s Marine Lover of Friedrich Nietzsche. Professor Velasco called the text a philosophical poem in which the… Continue Reading
By Arundhati Katju In order to demonstrate the genealogy of knowledge they propose, both Nietzsche and Foucault draw upon and refute key elements from Indic philosophy, specifically, mystic practices that contemplate the nature of knowledge and subject-object relations as found… Continue Reading
By Michael Milov-Cordoba “In the world I am heading for, I am endlessly creating myself.”[1] “I have spent much of my studies searching for the right question by which I might fully understand the breach between the world and me.… Continue Reading
By Jiwon Hahn Probably the most prominent common denominator of the philosophies of Nietzsche and Foucault would be genealogy as their method of philosophizing. The fact that Foucault entitled his piece on Nietzsche, written as part of Hommage à Jean… Continue Reading
By Jiwon Hahn In Nietzsche and Metaphor (1972), Sarah Kofman engages with Nietzsche’s text by exploring the relationship between metaphor and concept, as well as the role of language and memory, in writing and reading Nietzsche. At the very beginning… Continue Reading
Fanon’s letter to Shariati (1961)
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 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
By Bruno Bosteels 1. Rather than playing coy, I should probably start out by admitting that I have never been a real fan of Derrida’s, even though I have had an uninterrupted habit of reading his work that goes back… Continue Reading
Please also read for this session two articles by Professor Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, “Displacement and the Discourse of Woman,” from 1979, and a piece involving Circumfessions in the early nineties, Three Women’s Texts and Circumfession.