Alex Gil is Digital Scholarship Coordinator for the Humanities and History Division and Affiliate Faculty of the English and Comparative Literature Department at Columbia University. He serves as a consultant to faculty, students and the library on the impact… Continue Reading
The Center for Contemporary Critical Thought’s next additional seminar: Nietzsche’s Ethics: A Presentation by Rüdiger Bittner **** Responses by Robert Gooding-Williams and Taylor Carman Moderated by Bernard E. Harcourt **** March 3, 2017 at 12:10pm in Philosophy Hall 612 RSVP to… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt The stimulating interventions of Barbara Stiegler, John Rajchman, and Mick Taussig at last night’s seminar, Nietzsche 4/13, raised a number of challenging issues regarding Gilles Deleuze’s reading, interpretation, and “use” of Nietzsche—regarding both the Deleuzian Nietzsche… Continue Reading
By Ayten Gündoğdu My comments on these presentations center on two interrelated questions: 1) In what ways does Arendt’s reading of Nietzsche in her different works challenge the conventional reception of Nietzsche? 2) How does her close engagement with Nietzsche in… Continue Reading
By Simona Forti Hannah Arendt liked to quote Cicero and his preference “to rather go astray with Plato than hold true views with Pythagoreans”. For her, in fact, the question of whom we wish to be together with, in life… Continue Reading
By Linda M. G. Zerilli At the end of “Willing” (Volume 2 of The Life of the Mind), Hannah Arendt explicitly announces the need to write a section on “judging” in order to respond to the impasses in “every philosophy of… Continue Reading
By Seyla Benhabib Hannah Arendt’s familiarity and engagement with Nietzsche’s work are deep and pervasive. Nietzsche certainly belongs among the canon of philosophers that she most wrote about – the others being Aristotle, Augustine, Kant, Machiavelli and Marx and to… Continue Reading
By Francesco Guercio “Je vois devant moi une sorte de flamme, que je suis, qui m’embrase” Georges Bataille, Sur Nietzsche “Destruction plus intime, bouleversement plus étrange, mise en question sans limites de soi-même. De soi, de toutes choses en même… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt Although Hannah Arendt had, in The Human Condition and Between Past and Future, sustained important conversations with Nietzsche, it is really only in 1975 that Arendt would engage Nietzsche’s thought in the most direct and sustained… Continue Reading
By Daniela Gandorfer “How on earth do you read Deleuze and Guattari? How on earth do you read A Thousand Plateaus?” Posed as a rhetorical question by Michael Taussig, “the idiot question you can’t get away from” points to the elephant… Continue Reading