Nietzsche’s Therapeutic Teaching: For Individuals and Culture

265 Pages·2013·1.21 MB·English

by  Horst Hutter (editor)

Nietzsche’s Therapeutic Teaching
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Nietzsche’s Therapeutic Teaching
For Individuals and Culture
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Horst Hutter and Eli Friedland
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Contents
Note on the Contributors vii
Acknowledgments ix
1 Introduction Horst Hutter and Eli Friedland 1
2 The Nietzsche Cure: New Kinds of “Gymnastics
of Willing” Horst Hutter 3
3 Vocation as Therapy: Nietzsche and the Conflict between
Profession and Calling in Academia Martine Béland 1 3
4 Nietzsche’s Ethics of Reading: Education in a
Postmodern World Nathalie Lachance 3 1
5 “Who Educates the Educators?” Nietzsche’s Philosophical
Therapy in the Age of Nihilism José Daniel Parra 4 7
6 Nietzsche’s Cruel Offerings: Friendship, Solitude, and
the Bestowing Virtue in Thus Spoke Zarathustra Willow Verkerk 6 1
7 The Advantages and Disadvantages of Nietzsche’s
Philosophy for Life Bela Egyed 7 3
8 Nietzsche’s Agonistic Rhetoric and its Therapeutic
Affects Yunus Tuncel 81
9 True to the Earth: Nietzsche’s Epicurean Care of Self and
World Keith Ansell-Pearson 97
10 Nietzsche’s “View from Above” Michael Ure 117
11 Zarathustra’s Stillness: Dreaming and the Art of
Incubation Rainer J. Hanshe 141
12 Nietzsche’s Zarathustra, Nietzsche’s Empedocles:
The Time of Kings Babette Babich 157
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13 Nietzsche’s Care for Stone: The Dead, Dance, and
Flying Graham Parkes 175
14 Nietzsche on Consciousness and Language Lawrence J. Hatab 191
15 Nietzsche’s Experimental Ontology: Political Physiology
in the Age of Nihilism Nandita Biswas Mellamphy 205
16 “Let that be my love”: Fate, Mediopassivity, and
Redemption in Nietzsche’s Thought Béatrice Han-Pile 217
17 “Not to Destroy, but to Fulfill” Eli Friedland 2 35
Index 247
Note on the Contributors
Babette Babich is professor of philosophy at Fordham University (New York) and
executive editor of New Nietzsche Studies.
Béatrice Han-Pile is professor of philosophy, University of Essex (England).
Bela Egyed received his M.A. and Ph D. in philosophy at McGill University. Over the
years his interest has shifted from analytic philosophy to nineteenth century German
and twentieth century French philosophy.
Eli Friedland is a doctoral student in political science at Concordia University (Montréal).
Graham Parkes taught Asian and comparative philosophy for thirty years at the
University of Hawaii before taking up his present position as professor and head of the
Department of Philosophy at University College Cork (Ireland).
Horst Hutter is professor of political science at Concordia University (Montréal).
José Daniel Parra is a doctoral student in political theory at the University of Toronto.
Keith Ansell-Pearson is professor of philosophy at the University of Warwick
(England).
Lawrence J. Hatab is Louis I. Jaffe professor of philosophy and eminent scholar at Old
Dominion University.
Martine Béland is professor of philosophy at Collège Édouard-Montpetit (Longueuil)
and associate researcher at the Canadian Centre for German and European Studies
(Montreal).
Michael Ure is lecturer at the School of Political and Social Inquiry, Monash University,
Australia.
Nandita Biswas Mellamphy is associate professor in political theory in the University
of Western Ontario’s department of Political Science, as well as a core faculty member
in the Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism (UWO). She is the founder and
coordinator of The Nietzsche Workshop @ Western, an annual international conference
devoted to exploring Nietzsche’s thought.
viii Note on the Contributors
Nathalie Lachance teaches German and German literature at Bishop’s University
in Sherbrooke (Québec). She received her PhD from McGill University in 2010
(Department of German Studies).
Rainer J. Hanshe is the founder of Contra Mundum Press. He is the author of The
Acolytes, The Abdication, and most recently the editor of Richard Foreman’s Plays with
Films. His writings have appeared in Literatura, Jelenkor, The Pennsylvania Literary
Journal, ChrisMarker.org, and elsewhere. Hanshe’s essay on the synesthetic dimension
of Nietzsche’s thought is forthcoming from Fordham University Press. He is working
on two new novels, Now, Wonder and Virtualize!
Willow Verkerk is a doctoral candidate at the University of Leuven in Belgium working
with Paul van Tongeren on Nietzsche’s ethics of friendship.
Yunus Tuncel is a co-founder of the Nietzsche Circle based in New York City and
serves on its Board of Directors and the Editorial Board of its electronic journal, The
Agonist. He has been teaching philosophy at the New School University’s General
Studies Division since 1999.
Acknowledgments
We wish to express our deep gratitude to all the students, colleagues, and friends who
have been instrumental in bringing this book to fruition. We could not have done this
without you.
Eli Friedland wishes to thank the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
of Canada for the generous funding for the completion of this project.