Nietzsche's Animal Philosophy Series Board Jam es Bernauer Drucilla Cornell Thomas R. Flynn Kevin Hart Richard Kearney Jean-Luc Marion Adriaan Peperzak Thomas Sheehan Hent de Vries Merold Westphal Edith Wyschogrod Michael Zimmerman John D. Caputo, series editor PERSPECTIVES IN CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY VANESSA LEMM Nietzsche's Animal Philosophy Culture, Politics, and the Animality oft he Human Being FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS New York • 2009 Copyright © 2009 Fordham University Press All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means-electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or any other-except for brief quotations in printed reviews, without the prior permission of the publisher. Fordham University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for external or third-party Internet websites referred to in this publication and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Lemm, Vanessa. Nietzsche's animal philosophy: culture, politics, and the animality of the human being I Vanessa Lemm. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8232-3027-3 (doth: alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-8232-3028-0 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900. 2. Philosophical anthropology. 3. Animals (Philosophy) I. Tide. B3317.L433 2009 128-dc22 2008047375 Printed in the United States of America 11 10 09 5 4 3 2 1 First edition To Lou, Esteban, Alize, and Miguel Contents Acknowkdgments Xt Abbreviations Xttt Introduction: The Animal in Nietzsche's Philosophy 1 1. Culture and Civilization 10 2. Politics and Promise 30 3. Culture and Economy 48 4. Giving and Forgiving 61 5. Animality, Creativity, and Historicity 86 6. Animality, Language, and Truth 111 Conclusion: Biopolitics and the Question of Animal Life 152 Notes 157 Bibliography 215 Index 229 IX
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