By Annelies Schulte Nordholt Most of Blanchot’s work was written in a critical dialogue with a number of modern and contemporary writers and thinkers but, rather than a critic, he is an autonomous author with a questioning and method entirely his… Continue Reading
By Jesús R. Velasco As Rosalind Morris suggested, Bataille “talks about communication as continuity of loss.” Indeed, one of the central moments in which he theorizes about communication is when he glosses the Nietzschean fragment “The crucified Christ is the… Continue Reading
By Rosalind C. Morris “…[Often], we are … a play of obscure representations, and our understanding is unable to save itself from the absurdities into which they have placed it, even though it recognizes them as illusions.… The power of… Continue Reading
By Joseph F. Lawless From the mid-1930s to 1961, Martin Heidegger found himself particularly entangled in an intimate and tempestuous relationship with the writings of Friedrich Nietzsche. The partial culmination of this fraught affair was the 1961 publication of Heidegger’s… Continue Reading
By Charles Pletcher In this brief response to the seminar on September 8, 2016, I want to look at the vertical axis of Nietzsche’s inverted Platonism through the lens of Heidegger and the interventions of Babette Babich and Taylor Carman.… Continue Reading
By Rosalind C. Morris “…[Often], we are … a play of obscure representations, and our understanding is unable to save itself from the absurdities into which they have placed it, even though it recognizes them as illusions.… The power of… Continue Reading
Why —we wondered— did it become necessary for so many thinkers around the globe —a number far higher than 13— to think with Nietzsche? How did they think with Nietzsche? We are not interested in understanding a certain flow… Continue Reading
You will find attached a selection of scholarly contributions suggested by Professor Babette Babich. Babich. The Birth of Tragedy: Lyric Poetry and the Music of Words. Babich: Heidegger’s Black Night Babich: Heidegger’s Will to Power Babich: Forgetting Being and Reading… Continue Reading
By Babette Babich Being and Time, whatever one thinks about it, is clearly written, especially if one bothers to read it in German but also, provided that is to say that one reads the book slowly, in English translation. And… Continue Reading
Ce texte est la version abrégée et remaniée d’un article paru aux Etats-Unis sous le titre « On the future of our incorporations: Nietzsche, Media, Events », Discourse – Journal for theoretical studies in media and culture, 31, 1-2, 2009,… Continue Reading