In this Book
- Dead Letters to Nietzsche, or the Necromantic Art of Reading Philosophy
- Book
- 2010
- Published by: Ohio University Press
- Series: Series in Continental Thought
summary
Dead Letters to Nietzsche examines how writing shapes subjectivity through the example of Nietzsche’s reception by his readers, including Stanley Rosen, David Farrell Krell, Georges Bataille, Laurence Lampert, Pierre Klossowski, and Sarah Kofman. More precisely, Joanne Faulkner finds that the personal identification that these readers form with Nietzsche’s texts is an enactment of the kind of identity formation described in Lacanian and Kleinian psychoanalysis. This investment of their subjectivity guides their understanding of Nietzsche’s project, the revaluation of values. Not only does this work make a provocative contribution to Nietzsche scholarship, but it also opens in an original way broader philosophical questions about how readers come to be invested in a philosophical project and how such investment alters their subjectivity.
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Additional Information
ISBN
9780821443293
Related ISBN(s)
9780821419137
DOI
MARC Record
OCLC
794698913
Pages
211
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No