By Jens Hanssen “Übrigens ist mir alles verhasst, was mich bloss belehrt, ohne meine Tätigkeit zu vermehren oder unmittelbar zu beleben.”[1] This is the opening line of Frederick Nietzsche’s “Of the Uses and Disadvantages of History for Life.” Of all… Continue Reading
By Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi The Iranian public intellectual, sociologist, and lay theologian, Ali Shari‘ati (1933-1977) was one of the most significant figures in conceptualizing Islam as a political ideology. Drawing from multiple philosophical traditions, he rearticulated key concepts in Islamic theology in… Continue Reading
By Jesús R. Velasco Welcome to Nietzsche 12/13 Let me begin with Cixous. But not with her reading of Clarice Lispector. Not with her art of reading. Rather, with some letters from the prehistory, as she called them, letters from… Continue Reading
By Bruno Bosteels I would like to situate the few words that I want to share with you today under the heading of three epigraphs: Pour que le simulacre advienne, il faut écrire dans l’écart entre plusieurs styles. S’il y… Continue Reading
By Jesús R. Velasco Welcome to Nietzsche 10/13 It has been said that Luce Irigaray’s Amante Marine, translated in English as Marine Lover of Friedrich Nietzsche, is an opaque work. As Joanne Faulkner puts it in one of the articles… Continue Reading
By Penelope Lisa Deutscher Irigaray attributes to Nietzsche the dream of one who neither wants to have been born, nor to continue being born, at every instant, of a female other’ ( Marine Lover, 26) . But what does that mean for the… Continue Reading
by Jesús R. Velasco Welcome to Foucault 9/13 “You only need to look at the language.” This is what representative Mike Johnson from Louisiana responded to NPR newscaster Dave Mattingly when the latter asked him whether Trump’s executive order was… Continue Reading
by Judith Revel On sait le rôle que Nietzsche a joué dans la manière dont Michel Foucault est sorti de son initiale formation phénoménologique, dans les années 1950. On se souvient aussi de ce que, trois ans plus tôt, en… Continue Reading
By François Ewald “Nothing is flimsier than a political regime indifferent to truth; but nothing is more dangerous than a political system intending to prescribe truth. The function of “truth-telling” cannot adopt a legal form, and likewise it would be… Continue Reading
By Brandon Terry In the prologue to his Conscripts of Modernity, David Scott charges postcolonial theory broadly with a failure to pursue an “adequate interrogation of the present,” and a concomitant failure to identify “the difference between the questions that… Continue Reading