Nietzsche and the 20th-century Arab Intellectual Tradition Jens Hanssen, University of Toronto (Work in progress, please do not cite without permission of the author) Übrigens ist mir alles verhasst, was mich bloss belehrt, ohne meine Tätigkeit zu vermehren… Continue Reading
by Anupama Rao As someone who works in South Asia, on questions of caste and political subjectivity, I am interested in what we can learn from thinking about South Asia through Nietzsche, and vice versa. Especially because the latter question,… Continue Reading
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