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Interpreting Nietzsche

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Interpreting Nietzsche

Reception and Influence

Edited by Ashley Woodward

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Interpreting Nietzsche : reception and influence / edited by Ashley Woodward.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN-13: 978-1-4411-5241-1
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ISBN-13: 978-1-4411-2004-5 (pbk.)
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1. Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 18441900. I. Woodward, Ashley.

B3317.I65 2011
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Contents

Ashley Woodward

Sean Ryan

J. Harvey Lomax

Yue Zhou

David Rathbone

Jon Roffe

Ashley Woodward

Ciano Aydin

Duncan Large

Mathew Sharpe and Daniel Townshend

Robert T. Valgenti

Carolyn DCruz

Joanne Faulkner

Mark Tomlinson

Acknowledgements

This book owes much to the international scholars who have contributed such fine chapters. I would like to thank not only them, but also those Nietzsche scholars who were not able to contribute, but who expressed much encouraging enthusiasm for the project. Thanks are due to Joanne Faulkner, who in addition to contributing a chapter of her own, aided in finding contributors for some of the other chapters. Thanks to the editors at Continuum for their immediate interest in the idea and for seeing it to completion. This book has its origin in a seminar on Interpretations of Nietzsche held at the Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy. I would like to dedicate this book to all the students of the MSCP.

Ashley Woodward

Abbreviations

Editions of Nietzsches collected works in German are abbreviated as follows:

KGW Kritische Gesamtausgabe: Werke, G. Colli and M. Montinari (eds). Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1967.

KSA Smtliche Werke. Kritische Studienausgabe, G. Colli and M. Montinari (eds), 2nd ed. Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1980.

Given the variety of different translations of Nietzsches works, and preference of some of authors to employ their own translations, no consistency of referencing to translations of individual works across the chapters of this book has been attempted. However, general references to Nietzsches works (as opposed to specific translations or editions) frequently employ the following abbreviations. Letters refer to book title, followed by the abbreviated title of the chapter or number of the section, or when required, both. For example, TI Socrates 5 refers to Twilight of the Idols, The Problem of Socrates, Section 5.

A The Anti-Christ

BGE Beyond Good and Evil

BT The Birth of Tragedy

D Daybreak

EH Ecce Homo

GM On the Genealogy of Morality

GS The Gay Science

HAH Human, All Too Human

HL On the Uses and Disadvantages of History for Life (Untimely Meditations 2)

TI Twilight of the Idols

TL On Truth and Lying in a Non-Moral Sense

WP The Will to Power

Z Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Notes on Contributors

Ciano Aydin is an Assistant Professor at the University of Twente, a full special Thomas More Professor of Philosophy at Delft University of Technology, and a Senior Researcher at the Radboud University Nijmegen. He is a member of the Nietzsche Research Group, and is working on the compilation of a Nietzsche dictionary. He has published in, among others, The Journal of Nietzsche Studies and Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society.

Carolyn DCruz is a Lecturer in Gender, Sexuality and Diversity Studies at La Trobe University. She is author of Identity Politics in Deconstruction: Calculating with the Incalculable (Ashgate, 2008), and has published articles that largely focus on relations between deconstruction and justice.

Joanne Faulkner is an ARC Postdoctoral Fellow with the School of History and Philosophy, University of New South Wales. She is author of Dead Letters to Nietzsche (Ohio University Press, 2010) and The Importance of Being Innocent (Cambridge University Press, 2010), and co-author of Understanding Psychoanalysis (Acumen, 2008). She has published a number of articles, some of which have been about Nietzsche, and others of which, about Irigaray.

Duncan Large is Professor of German at Swansea University. He is the author of Nietzsche and Proust (Oxford University Press, 2001) and Nietzsches Renaissance-Gestalten (Verlag der Bauhaus-Universitt Weimar, 2009), and co-editor of The Nietzsche Reader (Blackwell, 2005/6). He has translated Sarah Kofmans Nietzsche and Metaphor (Athlone and Stanford University Press, 1993), as well as Nietzsches Twilight of the Idols (Oxford University Press, 1998) and Ecce Homo (Oxford University Press, 2007).

J. Harvey Lomax is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Memphis. He has served two years as Visiting Research Professor in Philosophy at the University of Heidelberg where Karl Lwith earlier taught. His publications include The Paradox of Philosophical Education: Nietzsches New Nobility and the Eternal Recurrence in Beyond Good and Evil (Rowman and Littlefield, 2003) and translations of Karl Lwiths Nietzsches Philosophy of the Eternal Recurrence of the Same (University of California Press, 1997) and Heinrich Meiers Carl Schmitt and Leo Strauss: The Hidden Dialogue (University of Chicago Press, 1995).

David Rathbone holds degrees from the University of Melbourne, Australia and from the New School for Social Research, New York. He was a founding member of theMelbourne School of Continental Philosophy, and has also taught many courses in Philosophy at the University of Melbourne. He is facilitator of theAustralasian Nietzsche Society, and an avid blogger (criticalidealism.net.au).

Jon Roffe is the founding convenor of, and a lecturer at, the Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy. He is the co-editor of Understanding Derrida