Volume III — Issue I — Spring 2010 Dr. Christa Davis Acampora Dr. Benjamin Moritz Cem Aydogan Hermann Nitsch Dr. Babette Babich Dr. Kelly Oliver Dr. Nicholas Birns Lance Olsen Dr. Arno Böhler Dr. Graham Parkes Dr. Tony Brinkley Keith Ansell-Pearson Dr. Thomas Brobjer Dr. Philip Pothen Mark Daniel Cohen Dr. Timothy Quigley Dr. Véronique Fóti Prof. Alan Rosenberg Dr. Terri J. Gordon Dr. Ofelia Schutte Dr. Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei Dr. Gary Shapiro Dr. Susanne Granzer Dr. Walter Sokel Pierre Hadot Dr. Joan Stambaugh Dr. Lawrence Hatab Mark Strand Dr. Horst Hutter Dr. Yunus Tuncel Dr. David Kilpatrick Dr. Gianni Vattimo Joseph Kosuth Paul van Tongeren Donald Kuspit Kim White Dr. Laurence Lampert Colin Wilson Vanessa Lemm Patrick Wotling Linda Lewett Dr. Irvin Yalom Paul S. Loeb John Bell Young Dr. James Luchte Gérard Zuchetto Tali Makell Board of Advisors Volume III Issue I Spring 2010 Publisher Nietzsche Circle, Ltd. Review Editor Yunus Tuncel Editor in Chief Rainer J. Hanshe Editorial Board Rainer J. Hanshe Yunus Tuncel David Kilpatrick Art Production Tim Syth Logo Design Liliana Orbach Advertising Andre Okawara Donations Katie Creasy Nietzsche Circle Event Poster Design donations can be made at Doerthe Fitschen-Rath http://nietzschecircle.com Nietzsche Circle Website Design Hasan Yildiz http://designkillsme.com) Letters to the editors are welcome and should be emailed to: [email protected]. The Agonist is published seasonally by Nietzsche Circle, Ltd. P.O. Box 575, New York, NY 10113, U.S.A. Website: http://nietzschecircle.com. For advertising inquiries, e-mail Andre Okawara: [email protected]. Contents © 2010 by Nietzsche Circle, Ltd. and each respective author. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or me- chanical, including photocopy, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from Nietzsche Circle, Ltd. 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The Agonist is interested in exegeses of individual aphorisms, bearing in mind that they fold into Nietzsche’s entire corpus and are not entities that one can consider in complete isolation. We are particularly interested in exegeses of aphorisms from Morgenröthe and Die fröhliche Wissenschaft, two of the more neglected books of Nietzsche’s oeuvre, but welcome exegeses on all the published works as well as the Nachlass. In this act of ruminating on individual aphorisms within the orbit of Nietzsche’s entire philosophy, we want to promote careful philological reading, the art of “reading well, that is to say, reading slowly, deeply, looking cautiously before and aft, with reservations, with doors left open, with delicate eyes and fingers” (D: P §5). If Nietzsche demanded for his work “only perfect readers and philologists,” it is incumbent upon us to learn, as he insisted, to read him well. For a section strictly devoted to exegesis, we seek work that strives to fulfill this task. “A book like this, a problem like this, is in no hurry; we both, I just as much as my book, are friends of lento” (D: P §5). For all submissions of exegeses, the editors can be contacted at: [email protected]. Table of Contents ESSAYS Invisibly Revolving— —Inaudibly Revolving: 7-26 The Riddle of the Double Gedankenstrich by Rainer J. Hanshe CONFERENCE 27 INTERVIEW Not a bad metaphysics, eh? 28-50 An interview with Oruç Aruoba interviewed by Yunus Tuncel and Rainer J Hanshe WORKSHOP 51 TRANSLATIONS Introduction to Ernst Bertram, Nietzsche: 52-84 Attempt at a Mythology by Pierre Hadot translated by Paul Bishop Friedrich Nietzsche: On the Concept of the Organic since Kant 86-110 translated and annotated by Th. Nawrath, Paderborn CALL FOR PAPERS 111 REVIEWS book review: Nietzsche’s Animal Philosophy 112-119 written by: Vanessa Lemm (New York: Fordham University Press, 2009) reviewed by: Yunus Tuncel (The New School, New York) book review: Of Poetry and the Experience of Language 121-125 after Heidegger, Hölderlin, and Blanchot written by: William S. Allen (New York: State University of New York Press, 2007) reviewed by: Gerald L. Bruns QUOTES selected by Keith Ansell-Pearson 126-128 Special 20% Discount The Death of Nietzsche’s Zarathustra BY PAUL S. LOEB In this study of Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Paul S. Loeb proposes a new account of the relation between the book’s literary and philosophical aspects and argues that the book’s narrative is designed to embody and exhibit the truth of eternal recurrence. Loeb shows how Nietzsche constructed a unifi ed and complete plot in which the protagonist dies, experiences a deathbed revelation of his endlessly repeating life, and then returns to his identical life so as to recollect this revelation and gain a power over time that advances him beyond the human. Through close textual analysis and careful attention to Nietzsche’s use of Platonic, Biblical, and Wagnerian themes, Loeb explains how this novel design is the key to solving the many riddles of Thus Spoke Zarathustra – including its controversial fourth part, its obscure concept of the Übermensch, and its relation to Nietzsche’s Genealogy of Morals. CONTENTS Preface Texts and citations Introduction: the clue to the riddles 1. The eternal recurrence of the same 2. Demon or god? 3. The dwarf and the gateway 4. The great noon 5. The laughing lions 6. The shepherd and the serpent 7. Circulus vitiosus deus 8. Post-Zarathustra “It is diffi cult to overstate the magnitude of the challenge this book poses Bibliography to the standard and currently authoritative interpretations of Thus Spoke Index Zarathustra. Paul Loeb’s careful exegesis and persuasive argumentation will oblige most of the leading Nietzsche scholars working today to revisit – and, in many cases, to revise – their interpretations accordingly. An impressive achievement by any measure.” Paul S. Loeb is Professor of Philosophy at the University of –Daniel Conway, Texas AM University Puget Sound. He is the co-translator and co-editor (with David F. Tinsley) of Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra and Unpublished Fragments from the Period of Thus Spoke Zarathustra in volumes 7, 14, “This is a provocative, novel, and erudite attempt to thread a and 15 of The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (forthcoming, philosophical path through the enigmatic and labyrinthine work that Stanford University Press). Nietzsche consistently considered to be his masterpiece. Paul S. Loeb establishes one of the strongest readings yet of Thus Spoke Zarathustra, arguing in a spirited, polemical, and rigorous manner that Zarathustra’s story interweaves narrative and concept to develop a startling idea of PROMOTIONAL CODE: LOEB10 post-human temporality. Readers will fi nd here new and powerful views of Nietzsche’s thoughts of eternal recurrence and the Übermensch, 288 pages | List Price: $85.00 | Disc.: $68.00 | and suggestions of how these illuminate the program of overcoming Hardback 978-0-521-51923-6 ressentiment in his Genealogy of Morals.” Available from May 2010 –Gary Shapiro, University of Richmond Order Dept. • Cambridge University Press • 100 Brook Hill Drive • West Nyack, NY 10994 Toll Free (800) 872-7423 / Fax: (845) 353-4141 View our catalog at http://cambridge.org/us/philosophy Invisibly Revolving— —Inaudibly Revolving: The Riddle of the Double Gedankenstrich by Rainer J. Hanshe I still have the right to say of myself, cogito, ergo sum, but not vivo, ergo cogito. Empty ‘being’ is granted me, but not full and green ‘life’; the feeling that tells me I exist warrants to me only that I am a thinking creature, not that I am a living one, not that I am an animal but at most a cogital. Only give me life; then I will create a culture for you out of it!—Nietzsche, UM: II.10; KSA 1, 329 He who knows how to keep silent discovers an alphabet that has just as many letters as the ordinary one . .—Kierkegaard, Repetition Whoever will have much to proclaim one day, must long remain silent unto himself: whoever intends to ignite lightning one day, must long be—a cloud.—Nietzsche, KSB 8, 597 he world, Zarathustra first declares, revolves not only around inverse auditory Tevents, but also around inverse visual events: “Around the inventors of new values the world revolves—invisibly it revolves” (Z: I.12; KSA 4, 65).1 What the Stillest Hour, who Zarathustra calls his “angry mistress,” speaks without voice to Zarathustra correlates to the inverse auditory and visual events that he proclaims drive the world, too: “Then it spoke to me again like a whispering: ‘It is the stillest words that bring on the storm. Thoughts that come on doves’ feet direct the world’ ” (Z: II.22; KSA 4, 189). To articulate thoughts in a voice that, inexplicably, though inaudible is still somehow discernible, Nietzsche illustrates that there are certain thoughts which he wants to communicate but cannot, or refuses to convey through explicit modes of transmission.