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Nietzsche and Psychedelics – Peter Sjöstedt-H –
Antichrist Psychonaut: Nietzsche and Psychedelics – Peter Sjöstedt-H – ‘… And close your eyes with holy dread, For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise.’ So ends the famous fragment of Kubla Khan by the Romantic poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge. He tells us that the poem was an immediate transcription of an opium-induced dream he experienced in 1797. As is known, the Romantic poets and their kin were inspired by the use of psychoactive substances such as opium, the old world’s common pain reliever. Pain elimination is its negative advantage, but its positive attribute lies in the psychedelic (‘mind- revealing’)1 state it can engender – a state described no better than by the original English opium eater himself, Thomas De Quincey: O just and righteous opium! … thou bildest upon the bosom of darkness, out of the fantastic imagery of the brain, cities and temples, beyond the art of Phidias and Praxiteles – beyond the splendours of Babylon and Hekatómpylos; and, “from the anarchy of dreaming sleep,” callest into sunny light the faces of long-buried beauties … thou hast the keys of Paradise, O just, subtle, and mighty opium!2 Two decades following the publication of these words the First Opium War commences (1839) in which China is martially punished for trying to hinder the British trade of opium to the Chinese people. Though opium, derived from the innocent garden poppy Papavar somniferum, may cradle the keys to Paradise it also clutches the keys to Perdition: its addictive thus potentially ruinous nature is commonly known. Today, partly for these reasons, opiates are mostly illegal without license – stringently so in their most potent forms of morphine and heroin. -
Radical Theology and the Death of God by Thomas Altizer and William Hamilton
Radical Theology and the Death of God return to religion-online Radical Theology and the Death of God by Thomas Altizer and William Hamilton Thomas J.J. Altizer is a native of Charleston, West Virginia. He attended St. John’s College, Annapolis, Maryland, and received his degrees of A.B., A.M., and Ph.D. at the University of Chicago. He was Associate Professor of Bible and Religion at Emory University, Atlanta Georgia. William Hamilton is a graduate of Oberlin and Union Theological School. He received his Ph.D. degree from St. Andrews in Scotland in 1953. He is Professor and Dean at the College of Arts and Sciences, Oregon State University, in Portland. Published by The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc. A Subsidiary of Howard W. Sams & Co. This material was prepared for Religion Online by Ted & Winnie Brock. The aim of the new theology is not simply to seek relevance or contemporaneity for its own sake but to strive for a whole new way of theological understanding. Thus it is a theological venture in the strict sense, but it is no less a pastoral response hoping to give support to those who have chosen to live as Christian atheists. Preface Radical theology is peculiarly a product of the mid-twentieth century; it has been initiated by Barth and neo-orthodoxy into a form of theology which can exist in the midst of the collapse of Christendom and the advent of secular atheism. Part 1: Introductions to the Radical Theology American Theology, Radicalism and the Death of God by William Hamilton There is an experience of loss among the radical death of God theologians. -
Franz Kafka and Maurice Blanchot
Writing and the Other: Franz Kafka and Maurice Blanchot A thesis submitted to The University of Manchester for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy In the Faculty of Humanities 2011 Hossein Moradi School of Arts, Histories and Cultures 1 Content Abstract 3 Declaration and Copyright Statement 4 Acknowledgment 5 Introduction: Franz Kafka and Maurice Blanchot: The Space for the Other in Writing 6 Chapter 1: Literature in Blanchot: Worklessness as Spacing between Word and Its Referent 30 Chapter 2: What is Worklessness in Kafka? 50 Chapter 3: The Act of Writing Part I: The Disappearance of Self 67 Chapter 4: The Act of Writing Part II: Self and the Impossibility of Death 86 Chapter 5: Memory and Récit in Blanchot 111 Chapter 6: The Primal Scene and Récit in Blanchot 132 Chapter 7: Kafka's Fictions and the Impossibility of Narration as Récit 155 Conclusion 176 General Bibliography 191 Final word count, including footnotes: 77095 words 2 Abstract The University of Manchester Hossein Moradi Doctor of Philosophy May 2011 Writing and the Other: Franz Kafka and Maurice Blanchot This thesis attempts to explore what occurs in the act of writing; arguing that the act of writing opens a space for 'the other.' For this argument, I bring Franz Kafka who has remained unthought in terms of the act of writing in the deconstructive thinking close to Maurice Blanchot who writes both theoretical discussion and fiction specifically on the act of writing. Blanchot has written extensively on Kafka; his récits also are influenced by Kafka. In the introduction, I argue through Borges and Benjamin that Kafka and Blanchot create their past and future, so that we understand any text in the past or the future differently if we know them. -
Nietzsche in Context | University of Warwick
09/29/21 PH334: Nietzsche in Context | University of Warwick PH334: Nietzsche in Context View Online (2016/17) Acampora, Christa Davis. 2006. Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of Morals: Critical Essays. Vol. Critical essays on the classics. Lanham, Md: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. Acampora, Christa Davis, and Ralph R. Acampora. 2004. A Nietzschean Bestiary: Becoming Animal beyond Docile and Brutal. Lanham, Md: Rowman & Littlefield. Allison, David B. 2001a. Reading the New Nietzsche: The Birth of Tragedy, The Gay Science, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, and On the Genealogy of Morals. Lanham, Md: Rowman & Littlefield. Allison, David B. 2001b. Reading the New Nietzsche: The Birth of Tragedy, The Gay Science, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, and On the Genealogy of Morals. Lanham, Md: Rowman & Littlefield. Allison, David B. n.d. Reading the New Nietzsche: The Birth of Tragedy, the Gay Science, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, and On the Genealogy of Morals. Lanham, Md: Rowman & Littlefield. Allison, David B. n.d. Reading the New Nietzsche: The Birth of Tragedy, the Gay Science, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, and On the Genealogy of Morals. Lanham, Md: Rowman & Littlefield. Anderson, R. Lanier. 2005. ‘Nietzsche on Truth, Illusion, and Redemption.’ European Journal of Philosophy 13(2):185–225. doi: 10.1111/j.0966-8373.2005.00227.x. Andreas-Salomé, Lou, and Siegfried Mandel. 2001. Nietzsche. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. Anon. 2008. Nietzsche, Power and Politics: Rethinking Nietzsche’s Legacy for Political Thought. Berlin: De Gruyter. Ansell-Pearson, K. n.d. Nietzsche and Political Thought. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015. Ansell-Pearson, Keith. 2006a. A Companion to Nietzsche. Vol. Blackwell companions to philosophy. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub. -
The Death of Tragedy: Examining Nietzsche's Return to the Greeks
Xavier University Exhibit Honors Bachelor of Arts Undergraduate 2018-4 The eD ath of Tragedy: Examining Nietzsche’s Return to the Greeks Brian R. Long Xavier University, Cincinnati, OH Follow this and additional works at: https://www.exhibit.xavier.edu/hab Part of the Ancient History, Greek and Roman through Late Antiquity Commons, Ancient Philosophy Commons, Classical Archaeology and Art History Commons, Classical Literature and Philology Commons, and the Other Classics Commons Recommended Citation Long, Brian R., "The eD ath of Tragedy: Examining Nietzsche’s Return to the Greeks" (2018). Honors Bachelor of Arts. 34. https://www.exhibit.xavier.edu/hab/34 This Capstone/Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Undergraduate at Exhibit. It has been accepted for inclusion in Honors Bachelor of Arts by an authorized administrator of Exhibit. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The Death of Tragedy: Examining Nietzsche’s Return to the Greeks Brian Long 1 Thesis Introduction In the study of philosophy, there are many dichotomies: Eastern philosophy versus Western philosophy, analytic versus continental, and so on. But none of these is as fundamental as the struggle between the ancients and the moderns. With the writings of Descartes, and perhaps even earlier with those of Machiavelli, there was a transition from “man in the world” to “man above the world.” Plato’s dialogues, Aristotle’s lecture notes, and the verses of the pre- Socratics are abandoned for having the wrong focus. No longer did philosophers seek to observe and question nature and man’s place in it; now the goal was mastery and possession of nature. -
A Philosophical Poetic Recourse Into Sameness
1 Poetics of the Same: A Philosophical Poetic Recourse into Sameness Astghik Simonyan Submitted for PhD Degree Queen Mary, University of London December 2010 2 Abstract This study endeavours to investigate the philosophical and poetological dimensions, the philological origins, and significant philosophical-literary representations of the Same. It also assesses sameness as a philosophical and poetological modus operandi; that is to say, it analyzes the ways in which the Same operates in different types of discourses both as an object of investigation and as an agent of (poetic) thought. The concept of the Same or the operation of sameness as the philosophical question par excellence will be considered in the development of Continental philosophy and philosophical poetics from classical antiquity to Postmodernism, and its transposition into poetry. The elaboration of the issue of sameness encompasses any philosophical inquiry which seeks to establish the essence of Being and make it susceptible to a general, unifying principle: as a search for an underlying element; for a metaphysical unity or universal, preceding division or difference and amounting to the harmony in the Universe; or for a transcendental absolute totality. Postulations of the pure conceptual difference are likewise examined as part of the elaboration of sameness, and will be viewed as indispensable for revealing the genuine plenitude of sameness. Part One traces the inception of sameness as a concept of pure identity, amounting to the harmony of the Universe by virtue of the operations of belonging (Presocratics), participation (Plato), and emanation (Plotinus), anchored in the relationships between the One and the many, between the Whole and its parts, between the Original and the copy. -
Wittgenstein and Nietzsche: Two Critics of Philosophy
Wittgenstein and Nietzsche: Two Critics of Philosophy by Anu Koshal Graduate Program in Literature Duke University Date: July 23, 2010 Approved: ___________________________ Toril Moi, Supervisor __________________________ Richard Fleming __________________________ V.Y. Mudimbe __________________________ Michael Hardt Dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Graduate Program in Literature in the Graduate School of Duke University 2010 ABSTRACT Wittgenstein and Nietzsche: Two Critics of Philosophy by Anu Koshal Graduate Program in Literature Duke University Date: July 23, 2010 Approved: ___________________________ Toril Moi, Supervisor __________________________ Richard Fleming __________________________ V.Y. Mudimbe __________________________ Michael Hardt An abstract submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Graduate Program in Literature in the Graduate School of Duke University 2010 ii Copyright by Anu Koshal 2010 iii ABSTRACT Few philosophers have been more critical of the Western philosophical tradition than Friedrich Nietzsche and Ludwig Wittgenstein. Nietzsche and Wittgenstein did not just reject the conclusions of their philosophical predecessors; they rejected their most basic assumptions. They rejected the very idea of philosophy as the attempt to rationally develop objective theories of the world. And yet Wittgenstein and Nietzsche have now been absorbed into the discipline they wanted to abolish. This dissertation attempts to recapture the force and extent of their respective criticisms of philosophy, and evaluate their conceptions of what philosophy should be. I begin by examining Wittgenstein’s claim that philosophical problems rest on a misunderstanding of language. I show that this claim does not entail a quietist refusal to engage in philosophical problems, as many have argued. -
Nietzsche on Art
Nietzsche on Art Selections from Later Writings In Nietzsche’s later writings we continue to see the theme of the importance of art. Though no longer presented in the terms of The Birth of Tragedy, Nietzsche continues to stress the healing capacity of art through the creation of beautiful illusions without which we could not live (what in The Birth of Tragedy was called the Apollinian art drive). Nietzsche will continue to refer to the Dionysian in many important passages in his very last writings, though what Nietzsche means by the Dionysian here is perhaps best understood not as what he characterized as Dionysian in The Birth of Tragedy but rather as the product of that miraculous coupling of Apollinian and Dionysian drives in the earlier text. In other words, the Dionysian in the later Nietzsche, Edvard Munch, 1906 writings seems to refer to what he regarded as the highest aim of art revealed in Greek tragedy—that transfiguration or metamorphosis in the artist which enables one to affirm life despite its tragic character. Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Nietzsche’s literary-philosophical masterpiece, is introduced (in the preceding work The Gay Science) as a tragedy. As the work does not have the classical form of a tragedy, it seems what Nietzsche must have meant in referring to it as a tragedy is that in it the author sought to achieve what he had identified as the highest aim of tragedy. The main theme of Thus Spoke Zarathustra is Zarathustra’s teaching concerning the overhuman (Übermensch), a teaching which concerns the further evolution or transfiguration of humanity. -
Franz Kafka's
Kafka and the Universal Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies Edited by Irene Kacandes Volume 21 Kafka and the Universal Edited by Arthur Cools and Vivian Liska An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libra- ries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high quality books Open Access. More information about the initiative can be found at www.knowledgeunlatched.org This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 License. For details go to http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. ISBN 978-3-11-045532-8 e-ISBN (PDF) 978-3-11-045811-4 e-ISBN (EPUB) 978-3-11-045743-8 ISSN 1861-8030 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A CIP catalog record for this book has been applied for at the Library of Congress. Bibliographic information published by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data are available on the Internet at http://dnb.dnb.de. © 2016 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston Cover image: Franz Kafka, 1917. © akg-images / Archiv K. Wagenbach Printing and binding: CPI books GmbH, Leck ♾ Printed on acid-free paper Printed in Germany www.degruyter.com Table of Contents Arthur Cools and Vivian Liska Kafka and the Universal: Introduction 1 Section 1: The Ambiguity of the Singular Stanley Corngold The Singular Accident in a Universe of Risk: An Approach to Kafka and the Paradox of the Universal 13 Brendan Moran Philosophy and Ambiguity in Benjamin’s Kafka 43 Søren Rosendal The Logic of the “Swamp World”: Hegel with Kafka on the Contradiction of Freedom 66 Arnaud Villani The Necessary Revision of the Concept of the Universal: Kafka’s “Singularity” 90 Section 2: Before the Law Eli Schonfeld Am-ha’aretz: The Law of the Singular. -
On Lucian's Hyperanthropos and Nietzsche's Übermensch
Fordham University Masthead Logo DigitalResearch@Fordham Articles and Chapters in Academic Book Philosophy Collections Spring 2013 Nietzsche’s Zarathustra and Parodic Style: On Lucian’s Hyperanthropos and Nietzsche’s Übermensch Babette Babich Fordham University, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://fordham.bepress.com/phil_babich Part of the Ancient History, Greek and Roman through Late Antiquity Commons, Classical Literature and Philology Commons, Continental Philosophy Commons, German Literature Commons, History of Philosophy Commons, and the Rhetoric Commons Recommended Citation Babich, Babette, "Nietzsche’s Zarathustra and Parodic Style: On Lucian’s Hyperanthropos and Nietzsche’s Übermensch" (2013). Articles and Chapters in Academic Book Collections. 56. https://fordham.bepress.com/phil_babich/56 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Philosophy at DigitalResearch@Fordham. It has been accepted for inclusion in Articles and Chapters in Academic Book Collections by an authorized administrator of DigitalResearch@Fordham. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Article DIOGENES Diogenes 58(4) 58 –74 Nietzsche’s Zarathustra and Parodic Copyright © ICPHS 2012 Reprints and permissions: Style: On Lucian’s Hyperanthropos sagepub.co.uk/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/0392192112467410 and Nietzsche’s Übermensch dio.sagepub.com Babette Babich Fordham University, New York City Nietzsche’s Zarathustra, Nietzsche’s Empedocles I here undertake to read Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke -
NOTES on the BIRTH of TRAGEDY John Protevi / LSU French Studies
NOTES ON THE BIRTH OF TRAGEDY John Protevi / LSU French Studies / www.protevi.com/john / [email protected] / Not for citation in any publication / Classroom use only SECTION 1 THE APOLLINE AND THE DIONYSIAC AS NATURAL ARTISTIC DRIVES. Evolution of art is tied up with duality of the Apolline and Dionysiac; comparison to reproduction: two sexes in perpetual conflict brought together periodically in reconciliation. The opposition is between the art of image making and the imageless art of music. These are different natural drives “stimulating and provoking each other to give birth to ever-new, more vigorous offspring.” Eventually, these two drives will engender an equally Dionysiac and Apolline art: Attic tragedy. This generation is a “metaphysical miracle of the Hellenic ‘Will’”. Note that the Apolline and Dionysiac are “artistic powers which erupt from nature itself, without the mediation of any human artist” (Sect 2). Analogy: dream is to intoxication as the Apolline drive is to the Dionysiac. We are image-creating artists when we dream; but we still know that dreams are “semblances.” Philosophical types feel that behind everyday reality there is another reality, IOW, that everyday reality is also semblance. Thus you’re a philosopher if every once in a while you think everyday reality is a dream, a semblance hiding another reality Artist and philosophers relate to semblance-images as helps in interpreting life. Not just pleasant images, but gloomy ones too. You have to live in the world and share joy and suffering while still having a fleeting sense of it being semblance. Our innermost being experiences dreaming with great pleasure and “joyous necessity.” Apollo is the Greek expression of this joyous necessity of dream experience. -
Genealogie Bei Nietzsche
Genealogie bei Nietzsche Zur Logik des Genetischen bei Nietzsche Wissenschaftliche Hausarbeit zur Erlangung des akademischen Grades eines Magister Artium dem Philosophischen Seminar des Fachbereichs Philosophie und Sozialwissenschaften an der Universität Hamburg vorgelegt von Heiko Wichmann Erstgutachter: Dr. Bernhard H. F. Taureck Zweitgutachter: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Bartuschat Hamburg, 1995 1. Zur Problemstellung: der Begriff der Genealogie ....... 3 a) die Problemstellung der Arbeit ................. 3 b) Diskussion und Forschungssituation ............ 10 c) vom Réealismus zur Genealogie ................. 27 2. Genealogie als Etymologie der Wertbegriffe und als Typologie der Kräfte ................................. 37 3. Asketisches Ideal und Ressentiment in genealogischer Perspektive .......................................... 55 4. Exkurs: Genealogie und die klassische Geschichtswissenschaft ............................... 69 5. Zusammenfassung ...................................... 77 Literatur ............................................... 80 Erklärung ............................................... 86 Lebenslauf .............................................. 87 1.! Zur Problemstellung: der Begriff der Genealogie 3 ! a) die Problemstellung der Arbeit Genus "Art, Gattung; grammatisches Geschlecht". Das Fremdwort ist eine nhd. Entlehnung aus lat. genus "Geschlecht; Gesamtheit der Nachkommenschaft; Art, Gattung", das identisch ist mit griech. génos. Beide sind Nominalbildungen zu dem idg. Verbalstamm *gen-^ "gebären, erzeugen", der