Download After Nietzsche: Notes Towards a Philosophy of Ecstasy by Jill Marsden PDF
By Jill Marsden
This e-book explores the innovative chances for philosophy created by means of Nietzsche's sustained mirrored image at the phenomenon of ecstasy. From The start of Tragedy to his experimental "physiology of art," Nietzsche examines the classy, erotic, and sacred dimensions of rapture, hinting at how an ecstatic philosophy is learned in his elusive doctrine of everlasting go back. Jill Marsden pursues the results of this legacy for modern Continental proposal through analyses of such voyages in ecstasy as Kant, Schopenhauer, Schreber, and Bataille.
Read or Download After Nietzsche: Notes Towards a Philosophy of Ecstasy PDF
Similar philosophy books
Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Plato and the Trial of Socrates
This guidebook introduces and examines Plato's 3 dialogues that take care of the demise of Socrates: Euthphryo, Apology and Crito. those dialogues are extensively considered as the nearest exposition of Socrates' ideas.
Part of the Routledge Philosophy Guidebooks sequence.
Jean-François Lyotard (Routledge Critical Thinkers)
Jean-François Lyotard is likely one of the so much celebrated proponents of what has turn into referred to as the 'postmodern'. greater than virtually the other modern theorist, he has explored the kin among wisdom, artwork, politics and historical past, in ways in which supply radical new percentages for pondering glossy tradition.
Paul Celan and Martin Heidegger: An Unresolved Conversation, 1951-1970
This paintings explores the afflicted dating and unfinished highbrow discussion among Paul Celan, looked by means of many because the most vital ecu poet after 1945, and Martin Heidegger, might be the main influential determine in twentieth-century philosophy. It facilities at the power ambivalence Celan, a Holocaust survivor, felt towards a philosopher who revered him and from time to time promoted his poetry.
Three Critics of the Enlightenment: Vico, Hamann, Herder (2nd Edition)
Isaiah Berlin used to be deeply renowned in the course of his existence, yet his complete contribution used to be maybe underestimated due to his choice for the lengthy essay shape. The efforts of Henry Hardy to edit Berlin's paintings and reintroduce it to a huge, keen readership have long past some distance to treatment this. Now, Princeton is happy to come back to print, lower than one disguise, Berlin's essays on those celebrated and alluring highbrow photos: Vico, Hamann, and Herder.
- The Greek Concept of Nature (SUNY Series in Ancient Greek Philosophy)
- Experience, Time and the Subject: Deleuze's Transformation of Kant's Critical Philosophy
- Philosophy in Literature: Metaphysical Darkness and Ethical Light
- Wish-fulfilment in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis: The tyranny of desire
- Philosophy of Mind: The Key Thinkers
Extra resources for After Nietzsche: Notes Towards a Philosophy of Ecstasy
Example text
The forms and figures of the dream world are such that we take immediate delight in their showing or Schein. Bedazzled by their resplendence, the beholder is conducted beyond the ‘everyday world’ and a different quality of knowing comes into its own: ‘We delight in the immediate understanding of figure; all forms speak to us; there is nothing inessential or unnecessary’ (BT 1). To the extent that the Apollinian compels the dreamer to take delight in images as images it is an entrancing power, yet Nietzsche is careful to mark the fact that Apollinian pleasure in sensible form must respect a delicate limit: ‘It is essential to include in the image of Apollo that delicate line which the dream image ought not exceed lest it have a pathological effect, in which case semblance [Schein] would deceive us as if it were crude reality’ (BT 1).
In this way, what the body consumes or incorporates becomes the same as itself, a ‘oneness’ exorbitantly generated from diversity. Since the ‘logical’ concept of the self-identical ‘same’ integral to the philosophy of identity is derived from the process of ‘making the same’, it is treated as an entity that has finished becoming: ‘All thinking, judging, perceiving as comparison has presupposed a “positing as same”, earlier still a “making the same”. The making the same is like the incorporation of appropriated material into the amoeba’ (WP 501).
Despite the considerable differences between the exemplars of these perspectives, the ecstatic imperative, if we may call it thus, is to think beyond the opposition between the ‘apparent’ and the ‘true’, not to restore certainty this side of the beyond. It is notable that in this endeavour, a number of influential thinkers have identified the ecstatic with the move beyond metaphysics and with the broader, ongoing attempt to rethink the transcendental. To the extent that the phenomenological movement concerns itself with what Nietzsche so aptly calls ‘the nearest things’, it could be said to have taken inspiration from his attempt to re-evaluate ‘appearance’ after the death of God.