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- Asceticism and the hopeful self: subjectivity, reductionism, and modernity
- Recently at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem I was struck by an Orthodox nun who queued to kneel by Christ's tomb in a very pious way, to be ushered out after only a minute or so by a monk whose job it was to ensure a regular...
- Research articles 2008-01-01
- Hegel, idealism and God: philosophy as the self-correcting appropriation of the norms of life and thought
- Hegel can be said to have taken philosophical idealism to its most extreme point, the point of absolute idealism, and, from the perspective of much contemporary philosophy, this has been enough to damn him. (1) However, an adequate approach to what such a philosophical stance entails, as well as what...
- Research articles 2007-07-01
- Some affective bases for guilt: Tomkins, Freud, object relations
- MY CONTRIBUTION TO THIS SPECIAL ISSUE BEGINS BY RETREATING slightly from the topic and turning quickly to the intimately related one of shame. I do this, no doubt somewhat guiltily, because I find it easier to think about shame than guilt. In fact, I dislike thinking about guilt for many...
- Research articles 2006-03-01
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- Hill, R. Kevin. Nietzsche's Critiques: The Kantian Foundations of his Thought
- HILL, R. Kevin. Nietzsche's Critiques: The Kantian Foundations of his Thought. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. xvi + 242 pp. Cloth, $35.00--The conventional wisdom in Nietzsche scholarship is that Nietzsche derived most of his understanding of Kant from reading Schopenhauer, that he understood Kant poorly, and that his philosophy is...
- Research articles 2006-12-01
- Small, Robin. Nietzsche and Ree: A Star Friendship
- SMALL, Robin. Nietzsche and Ree: A Star Friendship. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. xxiv + 247 pp. Cloth, $45.00--The historical contextualization of Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophical thought has in recent years emerged as one of the most exciting areas of Nietzsche scholarship. On the one hand, it allows for an arguably...
- Research articles 2006-12-01
- Nietzsche and the German Tradition.(Book Review)
- Nietzsche and the German Tradition. Edited by Nicholas Martin. Oxford, Bern and Berlin: Peter Lang, 2003. Pp. xviii + 314. 57.80 [euro]. Nietzsche, Godfather of Fascism? On the Uses and Abuses of a Philosophy. Edited by Jacob Golomb and Robert S. Wistrich....
- Research articles 2004-12-01
- Nietzsche's radicalization of Kant *.(Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche and Immanuel Kant)(Critical essay)
- Introduction Nietzsche does not reject morality but re-figures it beyond good and evil and alongside a Kantian conception of autonomy. (1) He does not stay within Kant's framework for practical reason but radicalizes it. This is clear in terms of his critique of ressentiment, presentation of...
- Research articles 2006-10-01
- Nietzsche, Biology and Metaphor.(Book Review)
- By Gregory Moore. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. 228. 37.50 [pounds sterling]. Nietzsche tells us in Ecce Homo that in the mid-1870s he lost interest both in Wagner and in classical philology, and felt a thirst for 'realities': 'since then I...
- Research articles 2003-03-01
- The Seduction of Unreason: The Intellectual Romance with Fascism from Nietzsche to Postmodernism.(Book review)
- The Seduction of Unreason: The Intellectual Romance with Fascism from Nietzsche to Postmodernism. By Richard Wolin. (Princeton, N.J." Princeton University Press, 2004. Pp. xi, 375. $29.95.) This author's excellent study provides the reader with an informed survey of some of the more important intellectual...
- Research articles 2007-06-22
- Carlyle through Nietzsche: reading Sartor Resartus
- Carlyle's Sartor Resartus is given a new reading here in the light of Nietzsche's brief but suggestive comments on Carlyle and his dyspepsia. It is seen as a text fascinated by devouring and the fear of being devoured as with The French Revolution. Carlyle's Romantic investment in standing up as...
- Research articles 2007-04-01
- Google Makes Us Stupid
- So Nick Carr argues in the July/August issue of The Atlantic (update: here's the link to Is Google Making Us Stupid?). Think about this: how often do you search on Google or any search engine every day? How about the people you work with? ...
- Blog posts 2008-06-09
- Books received.
- Nietzsche's Middle Period. By Ruth Abbey. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. xvii, 208. Cardinal Ratzinger: The Vatican's Enforcer of the Faith. By John L. Allen Jr. New York: Continuum, 2000. Pp. xii, 340. The Cambridge Companion to German Idealism. Cambridge...
- Research articles 2001-04-01
- Better Together: Report of the Saguaro Seminar on Civic Engagement in America.(Review)
- Better Together: Report of the Saguaro Seminar on Civic Engagement in America John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 108 pages MORE THAN 100 YEARS ago, Friedrich Nietzsche observed the gradual turning inward of the...
- Research articles 2001-09-24
- Schumpeter in the context of two canons of economic thought
- "Seht ihn nur an-Niemandem war er Untertan" says Gottfried Haberler in his obituary to Schumpeter, quoting Nietzsche. "Just look at him. He was inferior to no one" (Haberler 1950: 344). Schumpeter certainly deserves his reputation as a truly powerful independent and original figure in economics. Yet, as I shall argue...
- Research articles 2002-04-01
- Influential UC Berkeley philosopher dies
- BERKELEY -- Professor Donald H. Davidson, a philosopher whose insights into topics such as linguistic analysis and the nature of truth influenced a generation of thinkers, died Aug. 31 in Berkeley. He was 86. Professor Davidson made his mark in numerous landmark essays during four decades. He...
- Research articles 2003-09-08
- "The soul has bandaged moments": reading the African American gothic in Wright's "big boy leaves home," Morrison's beloved, and Gomez's Gilda
- When you go out to hunt monsters, take care that you do not become one. And when you look into the abyss, remember that the abyss looks back at you. --Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil The Soul has Bandaged moments-When too appalled to stir-She feels some ghastly Fright...
- Research articles 2005-12-22
- THE FALL: DEMOCRACY IN THE SHADOW OF TORTURE AND TERROR COVER STORY
- THERE is a word - much favoured by philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche - which describes what Britain and America are experiencing as democracies. It is "untergang". The Germans use the word the way we use the expression "the fall"; to describe the fall of man. Iraq has been our untergang. We...
- Research articles 2006-10-08
- Body, Power, Desire: Mapping Canadian Body History
- Taking into consideration the theoretical literature on the body generated in various disciplines and recent approaches to the body in Canadian historical writing, this essay argues that attention to the power of the body as defined by Spinoza, Nietzsche, and Gilles Deleuze can offer new possibilities for historical praxis. An...
- Research articles 2007-01-01
- Memory, History, Forgetting.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
- MEMORY, HISTORY, FORGETTING. By PAUL RICOEUR. University of Chicago Press. 640 pp. $40. One of the world's most admired philosophers, who has made formative contributions on questions related to biblical narrative and conflicted notions of the self, here traverses the interstices of continental...
- Research articles 2004-11-01
- Memory, History, Forgetting.(Briefly Noted)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
- By PAUL RICOEUR. University of Chicago Press. 640 pp. $40. One of the world's most admired philosophers, who has made formative contributions on questions related to biblical narrative and conflicted notions of the sell, here traverses the interstices of continental philosophies on the complex...
- Research articles 2004-11-01
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