Joanne Faulkner, “Irigaray’s Nietzsche”
Joanne Faulkner, “Irigaray’ Nietzsche,” in Interpreting Nietzsche: Reception and Influence, Ashley Woodward, ed. London, GB: Continuum, 2011.
Author: Bernard Harcourt
Kelly Oliver | Reading Nietzsche with Irigaray: Not Your Garden-Variety Philosophy
By Kelly Oliver To be sure, I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses…. ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra… Continue Reading
Suggested Readings
Michel Foucault, “Nietzsche, Freud, Marx” (1964) available in the volume Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology. Michel Foucault, “Nietzsche, Genealogy, History” (1971) available in the volume Truth and Method. Michel Foucault, “Lesson on Nietzsche” (1971) available in the Collège de France lectures,… Continue Reading
Homi K. Bhabha | Thinking the Burdened Life with Fanon, Baldwin, and Coates
By Homi K. Bhabha “I must constantly remind myself that the real leap consists of introducing invention into life.” “At the start of his life, a man is always congested, drowned in contingency. The misfortune of man is that he was once… Continue Reading
Bernard E. Harcourt | Introduction to Frantz Fanon: Provincializing Nietzsche (13/13)
By Bernard E. Harcourt “Each age has its peculiar opacities and its urgent missions. The parts we play in the design and direction of historical transformations are shadowed by the contingency of events and the quality of our characters. Sometimes… Continue Reading
Bernard E. Harcourt | Introducing Sarah Kofman: On Metaphor, Law, and Politics
By Bernard E. Harcourt « It is as if, in the transition from justice as barter to justice as obligation and in the transition from the metaphor to the concept, a volatilization of the constitutive elements takes place, a “sublimation”; only… Continue Reading
Nietzsche 13/13 | READINGS
Background Readings: Jens Hanssen, The fin-de-siecle Middle East Paul A. Bové, “Mendacious Innocents, or, The Modern Genealogist as Conscientious Intellectual: Nietzsche,Foucault, Said” Yoav DiCapua, “Arab Existentialism: An Invisible Chapter in the Intellectual History of Decolonization” Duncan Large, “Nietzsche’s Orientalism” Primary… Continue Reading
Bernard E. Harcourt | Aimé Césaire: Poetic Knowledge, Vitality, Négritude, and Revolution
By Bernard E. Harcourt « un homme sauve l’humanité, un homme la replace dans le concert universel, un homme marie une floraison humaine à l’universelle floraison ; cet homme, c’est le poète. » – Aimé Césaire, « Poésie et connaissance », Tropiques, p. 163 (1944)[1]… Continue Reading
Bachir Souleymane Diagne: “Négritude” entry in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Diagne, Souleymane Bachir, “Négritude“, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2016 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.)
Philosopher George Yancy on Aimé Césaire and Frantz Fanon
“Does this make a return to thinkers such as Aimé Césaire and Frantz Fanon all the more relevant in the contemporary period?” Brad Evans asks in the New York Times on Dec. 7, 2015 Yes, the answer is yes. The… Continue Reading