Joyce James - Joyces Nietzschean Ethics

JOYCES NIETZSCHEAN ETHICS

Joyces Nietzschean Ethics

Sam Slote

JOYCES NIETZSCHEAN ETHICS

Copyright Sam Slote, 2013.

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To my wife Ivana and my son Leslie, with much love, for making this book different from what it otherwise might have been.

Contents

Acknowledgments

When writing a book about ethics, proper and judicious acknowledgments ought to be made. Fortunately, in my case such a task is a joy rather than a burden. I am grateful to all my friends, colleagues, and students for all they have provided me and I would not wish it to be otherwise. But of course, all the inevitable errors remain mine and mine alone.

The Joyce world provides many joys beyond the reading of Joyces works and these include the companionship of many genial types, some of whom I would like to thank for their help, inspiration, and example: Derek Attridge, Valrie Bnjam, Murray Beja, John Bishop, Ron Bush, Tim Conley, Matthew Creasy, Luca Crispi, Vincent Deane, Jed Deppman, Daniel Ferrer, Anne Fogarty, Andrew Gibson, Michael Groden, Judith and Richard Harrington, Clive Hart, Declan Kiberd, Terence Killeen, Geert Lernout, Laurent Milesi, Andrew J. Mitchell, Vike Plock, Jean-Michel Rabat, Fritz Senn, Andr Topia, Dirk Van Hulle, and Michelle Witen. A special thanks goes to David Hayman, my graduate school supervisor, whose work on Joyce (and Beckett) continues to inspire me. Special thanks also goes to Philip Kitcher, with whom I discussed portions of this book, to Finn Fordham for numerous helpful suggestions, and to James DiGiovanna, whose work on Nietzsche provided me with some conceptual starting-points for this present work.

I find myself to be truly fortunate to be at Trinity College, Dublin, with such wonderful colleagues and students. Among my colleagues I would like to thank Peter Arnds, David Berman, Terence Brown, Brian Cliff, Helen Conrad-OBriain, Nicky Grene, Darryl Jones, Jarlath Killeen, Stephen Matterson, and Eve Patten. Working with PhD students is multidirectional and I can only hope that they have benefited working with me at least as much as I with them and so I would also like to thank Robert Baines, Philip Keel Geheber, and Alison Lacivita.

Beyond families of work, my own family has provided me with sustenance of both the physical and metaphysical kinds. And so I will close this section by thanking my mother, my sister, and my father, whom I miss dearly. And to my lovely wife Ivana and my son Leslie, named after my father, I dedicate this book, even the pages Leslie chewed on while I was (trying to) write and revise it.

Abbreviations

Works by James Joyce

Works by Friedrich Nietzsche