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Essay Archive

‘Dual value response’ - A new key to Nietzsche?

By Colin Wilson

Colin Wilson is the internationally renown author of such classic texts as The Outsider, Religion and the Rebel, The Strength to Dream: Literature and the Imagination, Origins of the Sexual Impulse, and other works such as Chords & Discords: Purely Personal Opinions on Music, Introduction to the New Existentialism, Poetry & Mysticism, New Pathways in Psychology: Maslow and the Post-Freudian Revolution.

Shaping the Future:
Nietzsche’s New Regime
of the Soul and Its Ascetic Practices

By Horst Hutter

“Horst Hutter’s Shaping the Future: Nietzsche’s New Regime of the Soul and Its Ascetic Practices is the wise work of a serious disciple. Notwithstanding the irony such a term immediately connotes in relation to an anti-foundational thinker such as Nietzsche, “disciple” is indeed the appropriate term......”

Ressentiment & Counter-Ressentiment: Nietzsche, Scheler, and the Reaction Against Equality

By Nicholas Birns, The New School

“One of the thorniest concepts in the Nietzschean lexicon is ressentiment. In order to understand the strange trajectory of that term in English-speaking culture, we need, in an appropriately Nietzschean way, to go into the term’s genealogy and the genealogy of Nietzsche’s canonicity in the Anglophone world itself....”

ON THE DIONYSIAN:
MONISM AND ITS CONSEQUENCES

By Walter H. Sokel

“One of the major arguments in the reception of Friedrich Nietzsche has centered around this question: was Nietzsche a forerunner of a sophisticated aestheticist Fascism or was he a link between enlightenment humanism and post-modernity?...”

NIETZSCHE & 20TH CENTURY MUSIC

By Dr. Benjamin Moritz

“In order to understand Nietzsche’s relationship to twentieth-century music, one must first examine Nietzsche’s peculiar relationship to western (European) music.”

ZARATHUSTRA IN NIETZSCHE’S TYPOLOGY

By Yunus Tuncel

“In this essay, I present a reading of Zarathustra as a type within the context of Nietzsche’s typology which permeates his works from the first to the last . . .”

Pygmalion, Agamben and the Myth of Nietzschean Aestheticism

By Philip Pothen

“The Nietzschean reading of Kantian disinterestedness is something of a touchstone for Nietzsche’s relationship with the aesthetic and philosophical traditions he both follows on from and strives to repudiate . . .”

The Wreckage of Stars:
Nietzsche and the Ecstasy of Poetry

By James Luchte

“Nietzsche once predicted that in the future there would be established a Chair (perhaps, of a transfigured philosophy) dedicated to Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Such a prediction could perhaps, as with his very last ‘poems’ and ‘letters’, according to certain, still prevalent attitudes to Nietzsche, be regarded as a symptom of his nascent ‘madness’ (his alleged megalomania). Of course, in other quarters, as with the Surrealists (or, the ever ambiguous Blanchot), such madness was to be celebrated as the epitome of Nietzsche’s philosophy – as a prophet and hero who had already gone over the bridge).”

Nietzsche’s Amor Fati:
The Embracing of an Undecided Fate

By Friedrich Ulfers and Mark Daniel Cohen

“There is in Nietzsche an unequivocal affirmation of life, and it would be precisely wrong to say, ‘notwithstanding the equivocality that he injects into his every assertion,’ for there is nothing in Nietzsche that withstands his equivocality. Yet, it speaks to the essence of Nietzsche’s posture to observe that there is nothing diffident or less than forthright in his work—he makes assertions, enormously complex assertions, and they are clearly intended to be taken as asserted. Nietzsche means what he says.”

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