Dead letters to Nietzsche, or, The necromantic art of reading philosophy
By: Joanne Faulkner.
Series: Series in continental thought -- 38
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Athens, OH
Language: eng
Number of pages: 211
ISBN-13: 9780821419137; 9780821443293
Subjects: Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, -- 1844-1900; Subjectivity
Other titles: Dead letters to Nietzsche; Necromantic art of reading philosophy
Description: "Dead Letters to Nietzsche; or, the Necromantic Art of Reading Philosophy examines how writing shapes subjectivity through the example of Nietzsche's reception by his readers, including Stanley Rosen, David Farrell Krell, Georges Bataille, Laurence Lampert, Pierre Klossowski, and Sarah Kofman. More precisely, Joanne Faulkner finds that the personal identificition that these readers form with Nietzsche's texts is an enactment of the kind of identity formation described in Lacanian and Kleinian psychoanalysis. This investment of their subjectivity guides their understanding of Nietzsche's project, the revaluation of values." "Not only does this work make a provocative contribution to Nietzsche scholarship, but it also opens in an original way broader philosophical questions about how readers come to be invested in a philosophical project and how such investment alters their subjectivity."--Jacket.
Notes: "Earlier versions of some of the material in this book have been published in the form of articles"--Acknowledgments.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The quickened and the dead; title: Ontology for philologists : Nietzsche, body, subject; title: "Be your self!" :  Nietzsche as educator; title: The life of thought : Nietzsche's truth perspectivism and the will to power; title: Of slaves and masters : the birth of good and evil; title: Moments of excess : the making and unmaking of the subject; title: Lacan, desire, and the originating function of loss; title: The word that sees me : the nexus of image and sign; title: The nothing as the reverse side of Lacan's mirror; title: Nietzsche is dead, long live Nietzsche : in memory of paternal ghosts; title: The "insiders" : Nietzsche's secret teaching and the invention of "the philosopher of the future"; title: Finding one's home in the nothingness of Nietzsche's text; title: Nietzsche's excessive demand and the question of the adulterous queen's desire; title: High and low : the hierarchical structure of Nietzsche's texts; title: Inside and outside : Nietzsche "incorporated"; or, Who incorporates whom in the act of reading Nietzsche?; title: The father's indulgence of the prodigal son : ambiguity and the limits of "the position"; title: The contagion of affect in Netzsche : Klein, Krell, Bataille; title: Doing time with Melanie Klein : renouncing "the bad breast," mourning the loss of "the good breast"; title: "Motivating this writingéis a fear of going crazy" : how Klein might read Georges Bataille sur Nietzsche; title: David Farrell Krell's "novel" approach to reading Nietzsche; title: Family romances and textual encounters : Sarah Kofman reading Nietzsche; title: Reading Nietzsche I : explosions; title: Autobiography or autothanography : killing with words in Rue Ordener, Rue Labat; title: Reading Nietzsche II : le pris des juifs; Nietzsche, les juifs, l'anti-semitisme; title: The vision, the riddle, and the vicious circle : Pierre Klossowski's reading of Nietzsche's sick body; title: On the continuity and disjunction between the body and language; title: Exquisite delirium : the thought of eternal return; title: The conspiracy of philosopher/villains : Nietzsche/Klossowski/Sade; title: From cannibalism to voodoo : the creation and control of the subject of Nietzsche's writing.