The Gay Science: The Death of God and the Eternal Return

Nietzsche, The Gay Science (Books I-IV)

Recommended:

Allison, “The Gay Science”; Babich, “The Gay Science”; Klossowski, “Nietzsche’s Experience of the Eternal Return”; Strong, “The Doctrine of Eternal Return”; Nietzsche, ECCE HOMO: “The Gay Science (‘la gaya scienza’)”

Human, All too Human: “On First and Last Things”; “A Glance at the State”

               

Recommended: 

Strong, “‘Wars the Like of Which One Has Never Seen’: Reading Nietzsche and Politics”; Drolet, “Nietzsche, Kant, the Democratic State, and War”; Nietzsche, EH: “Human, All too Human, with Two Sequels”

History and the Invention of the Subject

 

Nietzsche,  “Uses/Disadvantages of History for Life” and “Schopenhauer as Educator” in Untimely Meditations

Recommended: Deleuze, “Nomad Thought”; Strong, “Parables of the Shepherd and the Herd: Nietzsche and Politics”; Babich, “Nietzsche’s Spiritual Exercises”; Nietzsche, Ecce Homo: “The Untimely Ones”

The Science of Aesthetics — Apollo and Dionysus

 Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy

Recommended: Allison, “The Birth of Tragedy”; Strong, “What is Dionysian: Nietzsche and the Greeks”; Babich, “The Spirit of Music in The Birth of Tragedy”; Nietzsche, EH: “The Birth of Tragedy”

 

Nietzsche

Fordham University 

Fall 2022

Reading Nietzsche Reading Nietzsche

                        “Why I am so Wise” in: Ecce Homo

Recommended: Kofman, “Explosions 1”; Strong, “Approaching Nietzsche”; Allison, “Introduction”

40th Annual Nietzsche Society Meeting 2018

Penn State: 18 October 2018, 9-12 AM

The Penn Stater, State College, PA

With SPEP

Whose Eros?

Teaching, to paraphrase Nietzsche, is so erotic. 

But for whom? 
Whose eros if not the master’s erotic ideal: nor are we talking a student playground, youth on youth.

On this matter, Nietzsche stood in the company of the masters — professors, teachers.

...Hence Nietzsche could say, as he assured Lou Salomé in a protestation of his “intentions,” that he did not only seek someone to act as secretary and practical assistant in household affairs, he wanted a — she could be his — pupil. 

Lou, of course, never wanted to be so lucky.

Excerpt: Babich, Great Men, Little Black Dresses, & the Virtues of Keeping One’s Feet on the Ground, MP: An Online Feminist Journal. August 2010: Vol. 3, Issue 1, p. 76.