Memory mixed with desire : a preliminary study of philosophy and literature in the works of Friedrich Nietzsche and Milan Kundera

Memory Mixed with Desire: A preliminary study of Philosophy and Literature in the works of Friedrich Nietzsche and Milan Kundera Robert Spinelli Brock University, Department of Philosophy This thesis studies intertextuality in the works of Friedrich Nietzsche and Milan Kundera through the primary themes of memory and forgetting. The thesis starts with two introductory chapters that delineate memory according to Nietzsche and Kundera respectively. From here, I move into a discussion of Nietzsche's Ubermensch as an example of the type of forgetting that Nietzsche sees as a cure for the overabundance of memory that has led to Christian morality. Next, I explore the Kunderan concept of kitsch as the polar opposite of what Nietzsche has sought in his philosophy, finishing the chapter by tying the two thinkers together in a Kunderan critique of Nietzsche. The thesis ends with a chapter devoted to the Eternal Return beginning with an exegesis of Nietzsche's idea and ending with a similar exegesis of Kundera's treatment of this thought. What I suggest in this chapter is that the Eternal Return might itself be a form of kitsch even in its attempt to revalue existence.

Friedrich Nietzsche. Metteur en scène de la forme aphoristique

Les écrits aphoristiques de Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) posent une évidente difficulté. Cette difficulté n’a pas échappé à l’auteur qui a recommandé à ses lecteurs, en 1887 dans sa préface à Zur Genealogie der Moral, qu’ils pratiquent en lisant ses aphorismes un « art de l’interprétation [Kunst der Auslegung] » [KSA, V, p. 255, § 8.]. Malheureusement, Nietzsche ne dit pas précisément en quoi consiste une telle lecture. Comment le lecteur doit-il alors interpréter les écrits aphoristiques de Friedrich Nietzsche? Pour répondre à cette question herméneutique nous nous servirons de la « métaphore du théâtre », présente en filigrane dans l’œuvre du philosophe. Notre mémoire se propose d’abord d’examiner ce que Nietzsche a lui-même dit au sujet des « formes brèves » (la maxime, la sentence, mais surtout l’aphorisme), et en même temps ce qu’il attend plus particulièrement d’un lecteur de ces formes d’expression. Cette analyse philologique du corpus nietzschéen se fera aussi à la lumière des commentaires que Peter Sloterdijk (1947-) et Sarah Kofman (1934-1994) ont proposés de la philosophie nietzschéenne. Après avoir nous-mêmes analysé les propos de Nietzsche portant sur ce qu’il estime être un lecteur à la hauteur de ses écrits, il sera dès lors possible de porter un jugement critique sur la pertinence et la portée des études de Sloterdijk et Kofman qui abordent eux-mêmes la mise en scène de la pensée nietzschéenne au moyen de la métaphore du théâtre. Une part importante de notre critique portera notamment sur la nature synthétique de leurs interprétations philosophiques, menées dans une perspective thématico-synthétique et trans-aphoristique, qui marginalisent à bien des égards la particularité et l’autonomie des formes d’expression au moyen desquelles Friedrich Nietzsche s’exprime.

Emancipación, voluntad de poder y autoridad política : una lectura educativa a través de los conceptos de la filosofía de la historia de Friedrich Nietzsche.

Resumen tomado del autor

Perfecting nature : Friedrich Nietzsche's ideal and politics of cultivation

What I have called the Ideal of Cultivation is a fundamental ethical principle of civilisation, originated by aristocratic warriors in Greek antiquity who held that the true purpose of humanity is to perfect nature

It was then professed that individuals and even entire peoples could consciously develop and improve themselves in a way that was thought to obey the original lawful impulses of nature, a process which was likened to those of agriculture and animal husbandry.

Subsequently the cognate idea of a politics of cultivation arose which deemed that society should be organised specifically to produce more virtuous or perfect human types. Given their fundamental association with Hellenism both ideas have been revisited constantly in the intellectual history of the west, and most notably during the great secular periods, the Renaissance and Enlightenment when active attempts were made to retrieve the ideals of antiquity. Both ideas were particularly pervasive in the German enlightenment, the Aufklärung, and were assimilated by the succeeding Romantic generation.

In nineteenth century Germany, when interest in these ideas was quickly waning, the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche acquired an unswerving attachment to them and made the service of them his life's work.

The intention of this essay is to trace methodically the appearance of the Ideal of Cultivation in Nietzsche's philosophy and politics, and to outline his responses to a world which was abandoning the principles in which he deeply believed. This essay should be regarded as a case study in the long history of a fundamental ethical idea rather than one about the philosopher Nietzsche.

O corpo artista e a educação como re-significação do espírito livre segundo Friedrich Nietzsche

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Doença: sofrimento e vida nas filosofias de Friedrich Nietzsche e Blase Pascal

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

O negro na literatura sob a perspectiva filosófico-literária de Friedrich Nietzsche e Bruno de Menezes: civilização, religião e corpo

A temática do negro na literatura tem ocupado cada vez mais espaço nas discussões e debates em torno da questão da valoração da cultura negra no Brasil, especialmente no que tange a aspectos tais como o desmascaramento de determinados estereótipos há muito alicerçados, mas, acima de tudo, tem assumido particular relevância o papel da resistência negra, que ora analisamos a partir da perspectiva de um viés social, perpassando os enfoques histórico, religioso e cultural. Cada um desses enfoques adiciona uma importância diferente para a presença negra na poesia de Bruno de Menezes, nosso objeto de investigação, daí ser possível deduzir, o que acreditamos ser de fundamental importância, não nos subtrairmos a nenhuma das abordagens ressaltadas. A obra que doravante analisaremos intitula-se Batuque, do poeta supracitado, obra esta responsável por inscrever no contexto da literatura amazônica, e mais que isso, no seio da cultura de cunho nacional, um novo capítulo, isto é, uma nova perspectiva acerca da condição do negro na sociedade brasileira. Aliando-se a essas perspectivas, acrescentaremos o ponto de vista do filósofo alemão Friedrich Nietzsche, como arcabouço teórico para as problematizações que pretendemos levantar no decorrer do texto. A presente pesquisa teve por objetivo investigar a influência do processo civilizador europeu versus negro e os cerceamentos (culturais/religiosos) decorrentes dessa influência, assim como as consequências negativas que incidirão sobre a perspectiva que o negro tem acerca de seu próprio corpo e lugar na cultura, muitas delas também provenientes da visão de mundo cristã que lhes foi imposta.

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Friedrich Nietzsche, Brustbild, Profil

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