Author: Bernard Harcourt

By Bernard E. Harcourt Nietzsche was, in Étienne Balibar’s words, Maurice Blanchot’s “double.” Blanchot (1907-2003) engaged Nietzsche early—shortly after World War II—and throughout the rest of his writings.[1] In La Part du feu published by Gallimard in 1949, Blanchot motivates… Continue Reading →

By Annelies Schulte Nordholt The title of our session is ‘Blanchot’s Nietzschean inspiration.” And certainly Blanchot was reading Nietzsche as early as the 1930ies – he was one of the rare French thinkers who were fluent in German. Still, our… Continue Reading →

By Bernard E. Harcourt If Georges Bataille recuperated Nietzsche from the fascists and made war reparations to him, returning to Nietzsche an untainted concept of the will to power; and if Maurice Blanchot elevated Nietzsche’s aphoristic style, gave pride of… Continue Reading →

By Bernard E. Harcourt Reparation. Chance. Labyrinth. The insightful presentations of Denis Hollier, Rosalind Morris, and Anthony Vidler focused our attention on these three key concepts in Bataille’s writings on Nietzsche. By reflecting more on the three concepts, it may… Continue Reading →

By Anthony Vidler Nietzsche’s aphorisms on architecture, its loss of rhetorical meaning in the modern world, were influential on Bataille’s ascriptions of the dissolution of architecture in Documents, and were pursued analytically by Denis Hollier in his book La Prise… Continue Reading →

By Bernard E. Harcourt At the very same moment that Martin Heidegger began lecturing on Nietzsche at the University of Freiberg in the winter of 1936-1937, Georges Bataille and a handful of his closest intellectual collaborators—including the artist, André Masson,… Continue Reading →