Nietzsche and Literary Studies

It offers a complete guide to Nietzsche's writings, drawing upon two and a half millennia of literary and philosophical history.

James I. Porter (Edited by)

9781316511312, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 25 April 2024

310 pages
23.5 x 15.7 x 2.2 cm, 0.608 kg

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.

1. Heraclitus' Clarity: From Aphorism to Cento André Laks
2. Ariadne, or the Mediation of the Image: Nietzsche and Plato revisited Catherine Pickstock
3. Nietzsche's Centaurs: Synthesizing Philosophy, Science, and Art Michael Forster
4. Nietzsche on the Task of the Poets in his Middle Writings Keith Ansell-Pearson
5. Some Images in Nietzsche's Zarathustra Paul North
6. Nietzsche Ludens: Subversions of Literature and Philosophy in the Later Writings James I. Porter
7. Nietzsche and French Literature from the End of the Nineteenth Century to 1914 Jacques Le Rider
8. Ecce Mann: Having Fun with Nietzsche Eric Downing
9. Plant Imaginaries and Human Existence in Nietzsche and Sartre Vanessa Lemm
10. The Resources of the Figure: Literary Discourse and the Critique of Religious Asceticism in Nietzsche's Later Works Ryan Coyne
11. Nietzsche and Jewish Survival between Sarah Kofman and Jacques Derrida Sarah Hammerschlag.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: from c 1900 - [DSBH]