Nietzsche and Literary Studies tackles the literary implications of Nietzsche's philosophy and the philosophical implications of his approaches to style and expression. The book offers a complete guide to Nietzsche's writings, which in turn draw on two and a half millennia of literary and philosophical history, reaching back to Heraclitus, Plato, and the Cynics and from there to Diderot, the Schlegels, Stendahl, and Stifter, and have inspired a further century of responses from literary writers and philosophers, from Proust, Gide, and Thomas Mann to Derrida and Sarah Kofman. Individual chapters cover aphorism, the novel form, dialogue and dialogism, metaphor, truth, lies, and self-creation. Contributions are written by scholars from a wide range of fields, including classical studies, literary theory, history of literature and philosophy (including Nietzsche studies), theology and religion, and ecology.
Author(s): James I. Porter (editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2024
Language: English
Pages: 400
Introduction: Philosophy and Literature, or, Thinking and Writing
1 Heraclitus’ Clarity: From Aphorism to Cento
Appendix: Main Sources and Nietzschean Tweakings in the Extracts of the 1885 Cento53
2 Ariadne, or the Mediation of the Image: Nietzsche and Plato Revisited
3 Nietzsche’s Centaurs: Synthesizing Philosophy, Science, and Art
4 Nietzsche on the Task of the Poets in His Middle Writings
5 Some Images in Nietzsche’s Zarathustra
6 Nietzsche Ludens: Subversions of Literature and Philosophy in the Later Writings
7 Nietzsche and French Literature from the End of the Nineteenth Century to 1914
8 Ecce Mann: Having Fun with Nietzsche
9 Plant Imaginaries and Human Existence in Nietzsche and Sartre
10 The Resources of the Figure: Literary Discourse and the Critique of Religious Asceticism in Nietzsche’s Later Works
11 Nietzsche and Jewish Survival between Sarah Kofman and Jacques Derrida
Editions and Translations of Nietzsche’s Works
References
Index
