'And are not all things knotted together so tightly that this
moment draws after it all things that are to come?
Thus— —itself as well? (Z: III.2.2)

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Call for Submissions

The Agonist: A Nietzsche Circle Journal is seeking submissions. To submit work for The Agonist, please follow the general submission policy for this site, which can be obtained by clicking here. The Agonist is refereed peer review journals.

Any work received that does not follow the appropriate guidelines will not be read. If you have any questions with regard to our guidelines or submission policy, contact us at “nceditors AT nietzschecircle DOT com”

The Agonist is seeking essays and writers for book reviews as well as translators and interviewers.

With regard to translations, we are seeking translations of Nietzsche’s letters that are currently not available in English, as well as translations of his early and late papers, such as essays, lectures, and lecture notes. A full list of these works can be downloaded by clicking here.

If there is a book you wish to review, send us full details on the book (link to publisher’s page on the book, etc.) and one sample of a published book review you have written. If there is a philosopher or scholar you wish to interview, send us information on the subject, a list of the subject’s prominent publications, a brief note about why you wish to conduct the interview, including your methodology for the interview, and several possible questions.

Authors and book publishers interested in forwarding review copies can contact the editors at “nceditors AT nietzschecircle DOT com” for further details.

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NIETZSCHE’S WORK

In the NIETZSCHE’S WORK section, you will find biographical info on Nietzsche; NIETZSCHE’S LIBRARY, an extensive document that traces not only the books which Nietzsche read throughout his life, but also lectures he attended as well as professorial work he was engaged in, the music he listened to and composed, and, finally, denotes when and where he wrote his philosophical works. Its primary concern though is with the books Nietzsche was reading; the most abundant references are to those books; WORKS OF NIETZSCHE, a bibliography of all of Nietzsche’s published and unpublished works, including his musical compositions; and WORKS ON NIETZSCHE, a bibliography of studies on Nietzsche’s philosophy listed by category.

In the distant future, the sections Antecedents, Nietzsche’s Philosophical Legacy, and Nietzsche’s Influence on Art and Culture will be completed.

If you have any questions about the site or regarding Nietzsche philosophy, contact the editors and they will answer your query in as timely a manner as possible. The Nietzsche Circle site has been praised for its ease of navigation, its content, and its design; we hope that you too find it stimulating and informative.

THE AGONIST: A NIETZSCHE CIRCLE JOURNAL
Frank Chouraqui, Ph.D
David Kilpatrick, Ph.D
Yunus Tuncel, Ph.D

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Vision Statement

To create an intellectual and artistic community whereby individuals of Geist and vision may come together and explore Nietzsche’s philosophy, developing ways in which it can explode like a dancing star and be transfigured.

It is our purpose to invoke and embrace the notion of gaya scienza, carrying the Dionysian spirit into contemporary society to enact necessary transformations, and, in whatever manner possible, transform culture.

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Book Recommendations

The Nietzsche Circle has assembled a series of book recommendations, and by ordering them from Amazon through the links on this web site, you can help support the NC.

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The link will take you to a new window, where you can browse our recommendations by category, review a list of similar items or examine our complete wish list of important titles. Also, there are links around the NC site that lead to topic specific recommendations.

Site Note

Welcome to the Nietzsche Circle website. To assist with your exploration of the site, following is an overview of what can be found in each section:

HOME

In HOME, generally, new material will be posted quarterly in the following sections of our journal, The Agonist: essays; reviews; and interviews.

The Agonist is a peer review refereed journal that features essays, interviews, and reviews as well as current translations of heretofore unavailable Nietzsche texts and rare, obscure, or overlooked studies on Nietzsche’s thought or aspects of it that have received scant attention or been deemed marginal by the philosophical establishment.

The primary concern of The Agonist is with critical interrogations of Nietzsche’s aesthetics, which remain in demand of more significant attention. If art to Nietzsche “is the great stimulus to life,” there is no total valorization of it in his work. As Philip Pothen noted in Nietzsche and the Fate of Art, “Nietzsche’s suspicion concerning art is perhaps the greatest of any since Plato’s, and even, it might be said, including Plato’s.” If this is true, a revaluation of Nietzsche’s aesthetics is duly in order.

In the Nachlass, Nietzsche stated that his general task was “to show how life, philosophy, and art can have a deeper and familial relationship to each other, without philosophy becoming shallow and the life of the philosopher becoming untruthful” [KSA 8: 104]. Thus, although our principal concern is the aesthetic, the aesthetic is inseparable from the philosophic therefore from life. All dimensions of Nietzsche’s thought—classical, mythic, literary, poetic, sacred, ecstatic, etc.—are, we attest, interwoven in the most complex manner and therefore pertinent to our vision.

A further intention of The Agonist is to instigate and spur new modes of writing on Nietzsche in order to embrace and develop different methods of examining his thought, methods that incorporate notions of experimentation and riddling—to write, for instance, on Nietzsche as rabbinical scholars write on The Torah, surrounding a text with numerous conflicting interpretations that come to no resolution, reflecting a radical perspectivism that refuses to offer definitive conclusions. The ‘dangerous maybe’ and the ‘questionable question’ that Nietzsche brings to bear in his agons must, too, be brought to bear against his thought.

In order to enact one of the practices of writing that Nietzsche engaged in, The Agonist will include a section strictly devoted to exegesis. No journal on Nietzsche currently features such writing. This unique section will contain ruminative reflections on passages from Nietzsche’s oeuvre in the manner of the third essay of On the Genealogy of Morals: A Polemic. Its purpose is to foster the art of reading like a cow and writing with blood that Nietzsche struggled to instigate and that his work demands.

The Agonist will also publish reviews of works not directly concerned with Nietzsche that it considers relevant or of particular importance to its overall aesthetico-philosophic concerns. In the Archive section of essays, all previously published essays can be found.

The Interviews section will serve as a forum for more intimate, less formal discussions of Nietzsche’s work or of work which reveals his influence and will include interviews with noted scholars and introduce less well known figures. In the Reviews section, reviews of important new works on Nietzsche, new translations, and other related works can be found.

Contact info for the NC, a FAQ about us, our discussion board (currently, it is in the midst of being recreated), and NEWS, where an overview of recently posted material is listed, may also be found in this section. Reading Materials features important new studies on Nietzsche as well as current translations of his own work to keep abreast of new developments in Nietzsche studies.

THE CIRCLE

In THE CIRCLE section, you will find information on the activities of the Nietzsche Circle and its events; a note about the Nietzsche Circle, its Board of Directors (who created and who operates it) and its Advisory Board; how to make contributions to the NC; how to become a member of the NC; and events, wherein you will find info about whatever current event, our event calendar for an overview of events, and Past Events, which serves as a history of our events and which contains a selection of some works presented as well as reviews or assessments of select events.

In this section there are links to other relevant organizations and Nietzsche sites, such as online text sources, the Nietzsche-Archiv, etc.