Author: Bernard Harcourt

Primary Texts: Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks (1952)     Secondary Texts: Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth, trans. Richard Philcox, preface by Jean-Paul Sartre, foreword by Homi K. Bhabha (Grove Press, 2005); translation of Fanon, Les Damnés… Continue Reading →

Primary Texts: Sarah Kofman, Nietzsche and Metaphor, ed. and trans., Duncan Large (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1993); translation of 1972 book, Nietzsche et la métaphore (1972). Sarah Kofman, Nietzsche et la scène philosophique (1979).   Secondary Texts: Sarah Kofman,… Continue Reading →

Primary Texts: Aimé Césaire, “Poésie et connaissance,” in Tropiques. Revue Culturelle, No. 12 (Janvier 1945) Aimé Césaire, “And the Dogs Were Silent,” in Lyric and Dramatic Poetry, 1946-82, trans. Clayton Eshleman and Annette Smith (UVA Press, 19990); translation of Et les chiens se… Continue Reading →

Primary Texts: Hannah Arendt, The Life of the Mind: Volume Two, Willing (1974/1978).  Please focus on Chapter 4 (“Conclusions”), pp. 149-219 of Volume 2 of the 1978 edition. Hannah Arendt, “Some Questions of Moral Philosophy,” in Hannah Arendt, “Responsibility and… Continue Reading →

Primary Texts: Gilles Deleuze, Nietzsche et la philosophie (1962); English edition, Nietzsche and Philosophy, Hugh Tomlinson (Translator), Michael Hardt (Foreword) (Columbia University Press). Gilles Deleuze, Nietzsche (1965) (translation by Anne Boyman in Pure Immanence: Essays on a Life, ed. John Rajchman (Zone Books, 2005)) Gilles Deleuze, Difference and… Continue Reading →

Primary Texts: Maurice Blanchot, « Du côté de Nietzsche », in La Part du feu (Gallimard, 1949), p. 278-290; in English, The Work of Fire transl. Charlotte Mandell Maurice Blanchot, « L’expérience-limite », in L’Entretien infini (Gallimard, 1969), p. 119-418; in English, Infinite… Continue Reading →

Primary Texts: Martin Heidegger, Nietzsche: Volumes 1 and 2 (1930s)   Secondary Texts: Tracy Colony, “The Death of God and the Life of Being: Heidegger’s Confrontation with Nietzsche,” pp. 197-217, in Interpreting Heidegger: Critical Essays, ed. Daniel Dahlstrom (Cambridge University… Continue Reading →

Principal Readings: Georges Bataille, On Nietzsche, trans. Bruce Boone (Continuum International Publishing Group, 2004), which is a translation of Georges Bataille, Sur Nietzsche. Volonté de chance (1945)       Acéphale : religion, sociologie, philosophie, No. 2, eds. Georges Bataille,… Continue Reading →