To celebrate Samhain, some timely meditations in which Nietzsche invokes the undead.
Philosophizing was always a kind of vampirism … Don’t you sense a long concealed vampire in the background who begins with the senses and in the end is left with, and leaves, mere bones, mere clatter? [Gay Science, 372]
For anyone who scrutinzes the basic [...]
Archive for October, 2007
Happy Halloween from Nietzsche
Posted in Quotations on October 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Nietzsche and economy
Posted in Publications on October 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Just published: Peter Sedgwick, Nietzsche’s Economy (Palgrave Macmillan).
Poe in Scotland
Posted in News & media on October 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
FNS member Robert Brill will be featured on a BBC Radio Scotland programme entitled ‘Scots Gothic: A Portrait of Edgar Allan Poe in Ayrshire’, which will air at 11 am on 31 October and be further available through the internet for a week after it is broadcast. Bob, who is working on a long-term research [...]
Pointless allusions to Nietzsche in sports journalism, pt. 2
Posted in Miscellaneous on October 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Simon Barnes is an incorrigibly pretentious sports writer with The Times and features regularly in Pseud’s Corner in Private Eye. Evidently a year ago someone bought him the Penguin Nietzsche Reader:
17 June 2006: We all know what it’s like to feel one of Nietzsche’s eternal recurrences coming on. [...] I have the same feeling at this World [...]
Nietzsche: his role in the downfall of the GDR
Posted in Miscellaneous on October 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
John Rodden’s Repainting the Little Red Schoolhouse: A History of Eastern German Education (OUP, 2002) has a chapter on the activities of the Nietzsche-Archiv during the years of the GDR. Reading it, I was struck by the following passage, which suggests that Nietzsche was, bizarrely, a secret weapon deployed by both the authorities and the Church [...]
FNS on Facebook
Posted in News & media on October 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Well, it had to happen sooner or later. The FNS now has its own group on Facebook. All members, or anyone else for that matter, are welcome to join. Hopefully, in the future we’ll post news, pictures and videos of FNS events there.
Getting fit with Nietzsche
Posted in Miscellaneous on October 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s a gimmicky fitness guide punctuated with a few tired old Nietzsche quotations; I guess you can find this sort of thing everywhere.
If you want genuine health tips from Nietzsche, then look no further than Ecce Homo. And if you’re a sucker for all those celebrity-sponsored exercise regimes, why not follow Nietzsche’s example and try Daniel Gottlob [...]
A study of Zarathustra
Posted in Publications on October 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Encore une étude française sur Nietzsche. Out this month: La Philosophie de Nietzsche, une philosophie ‘en actes’: Analyse de la structure du Zarathoustra by Serge Botet (L’Harmattan).
Nietzsche and Buddhism
Posted in Publications on October 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Published in June: Nietzsche et le pensée bouddhiste by Alphonse Vanderheyde (L’Harmattan).
Nietzsche a liberal?
Posted in Miscellaneous on October 16, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Barry Stocker argues that Nietzsche’s politics can best be summed up as ‘liberalism with teeth’. What do you think?
