The Question of Ethics: Nietzsche, Foucault, Heidegger PDF
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Page i The Question of Ethics Page ii Studies in Continental Thought John Sallis, general editor Consulting Editors Robert Bernasconi Rudolf Bernet John D. Caputo David Carr Edward S. Casey Hubert L. Dreyfus Don Ihde| David Farrell Krell Lenore Langsdorf Alphonso Lingis William L. McBride J. N. Mohanty Mary Rawlinson Tom Rockmore Calvin O. Schrag Reiner Schurmann Charles E. Scott Thomas Sheehan Robert Sokolowski Bruce W. Wilshire David Wood Page iii The Question of Ethics Nietzsche, Foucault, Heidegger Charles E. Scott Indiana University Press Bloomington and Indianapolis Page iv © 1990 by Charles E. Scott All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. The Association of American University Presses' Resolution on Permissions constitutes the only exception to this prohibition. The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.481984. Manufactured in the United States of America Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data Scott, Charles E. The question of ethics: Nietzsche, Foucault, Heidegger / Charles E. Scott. p. cm. — (Studies in continental thought) Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 0253351235 (alk. paper). — ISBN 025320593X (pbk.: alk. paper) 1. Ethics—Methodology. 2. Ethics, Modern—20th century. 3. Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 18441900—Ethics. 4. Foucault, Michel—Ethics. 5. Heidegger, Martin, 18891976—Ethics. I. Title. II. Series. BJ37.S35 1990 170—dc20 8946341 CIP 2 3 4 5 94 93 92 Page v "We will never be done with the question. not because there still remains too much to question but because the question, in this detour from the depth that is proper— a movement that diverts us from both profundity and self puts us in contact with that which has no end." —Blanchot Page viii Contents Acknowledgments ix Selected Works Cited xi One Introduction: The Question Concerns Ethics 1 Two The Question Turns on Ethics: SelfOvercoming in Nietzsche's Genealogy 13 of the Ascetic Ideal 1. The Functions of Recoil 15 2. Nietzsche's SelfOvercoming Is the Middle Voice of Metaphysics 18 3. Genealogy and the Ascetic Ideal 35 4. The Ascetic Ideal and the Ascetic Priest: "There Is Nothing of Virtue in 39 This" 5. "Probably It Infects Even Us" 45 Three Ethics Is the Question: The Fragmented Subject in Foucault's Genealogy 53 1. Genealogy's Ethos 58 2. The Unbearable Lightness of Reason: Reason's Recoil in Madness 65 3. A Genealogy of Genealogical Knowledge 71 4. Fragmented Man 79 5. Games of Truth, the Ethical Subject 86 Four The Question of Dasein's Most Proper Being 94 1. Dasein's Eigenste Being 97 2. A Recoiling Search for Authenticity 101 3. The Question of Suffering 111 4. Ecstasis 120 5. Overturning in The Basic Problems of Phenomenology 124 Page viiii 6. The Truth of Ecstasis 134 7. Ethos/Ecstasis 142 Five These Violent Passions: The Rector's Address 148 Six "'All Truth'—Is That Not a Compound Lie?" The Ascetic Ideal in 173 Heidegger's Thought 1. The Unfolding of the Ascetic Ideal in the Unfolding of the Appeal of 178 Being 2. Giving Thought to Simple Oneness 190 3. A Simple Conjunction 195 4. The Rule of Being in Gelassenheit 202 5. "We Need Desperately to See in the Dark" 210 Notes 213 Index 220 Page ix Acknowledgments I am indebted to the philosophy faculty and students at the University of Essex, England, to the participants of the Collegium Phenomenologicum, Perugia, Italy, in 1987, 1988, 1989, and to the faculty and graduate students at Vanderbilt University for discussion and criticism of parts of this book. I am especially grateful to David Farrell Krell, Susan M. Schoenbohm, Charles Shepherdson, Susanna Thiele, and Andrew Young for their exceptionally helpful suggestions, research aid, and conversations. Holley Roberts provided valuable editorial assistance and prepared the index. Judy Thompson and Stella Thompson typed the manuscript in its several versions with patience and kindness that went considerably beyond the staff support that one might reasonably expect. I acknowledge with gratitude permission to use all or portions of the following publications: "The Middle Voice of Metaphysics," The Review of Metaphysics 42 (1989). Reprinted by permission of The Review of Metaphysics. "Heidegger and the Question of Ethics," Research in Phenomenology 17 (1988), Reprinted by permission of Research in Phenomenology. The Language of Difference, chapter 2, section 4 (Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press International, 1987). Reprinted by permission of Humanities Press International, Inc. "The Horizon of Time and Ontological Difference in The Basic Problems of Phenomenology," Hermeneutic Phenomenology: Lectures and Essays, ed. Joseph J. Kockelmans (Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1988). Page xi Selected Works Cited Nietzsche GM On the Genealogy of Morals, trans. Walter Kaufmann and R. J. Hollingdale (New York: Random House, 1969). WP The Will to Power, trans. Walter Kaufmann and R. J. Hollingdale (New York: Random House, 1967). Z Thus Spoke Zarathustra, trans. Walter Kaufmann (New York: Viking, 1966). Foucault CS The Care of the Self, vol. III of The History of Sexuality, trans. Robert Hurley (New York: Pantheon, 1987). DP Discipline/Punish: The Birth of the Prison, trans. Alan Sheridan (New York: Random House, 1977). EC "The Ethic of Care for the Self as a Practice of Freedom, an interview with Michel Foucault on January 20, 1984," The Final Foucault, eds. J. Bernauer and D. Rasmussen (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1988). LCM Language, CounterMemory, Practice: Selected Essays and Interviews, ed. Donald F. Bouchard (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1977). MC Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason, trans. Richard Howard (New York: Random House, 1973). OT The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences (New York: Random House, 1970). PK Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 19721977, trans. Colin Gordon, Leo Marshall, John Mepham, Kate Soper (New York: Pantheon, 1980). UP The Use of Pleasure, vol. II of The History of Sexuality, trans. Robert Hurley (New York: Pantheon, 1985). Heidegger AH "Aletheia Heraclitus, Fragment B16," Early Greek Thinking, ed. David Farrell Krell and Frank A. Capuzzi (New York:Harper & Row, 1975).
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