From Private Eye (No. 1204, 22 Feb-6 March 2008).
Archive for February, 2008
Have I been understood?
Posted in Humour on February 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Bürger on Nietzsche
Posted in News & media on February 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Back in January the Neue Zürcher Zeitung published a short essay by Peter Bürger on Nietzsche’s Vom Nutzen und Nachteil der Historie für das Leben. Here.
Nietzsche and Yeats
Posted in Events on February 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Edward Greenwood, ‘“That Strong Enchanter”: The Affinities Between Nietzsche and Yeats’
5 March 2008, 5 pm
School of European Culture and Languages, University of Kent (Canterbury)
My name is a number …
Posted in Humour on February 18, 2008 | 3 Comments »
…. sang the Rolling Stones in “2000 Man”.* Those words are the guiding principle of this website, which features a meshuggeneh numerological profile of Nietzsche, including the tarot card and rune that supposedly represent his personality. The best part is “birth mates”, i.e. a list of people with whom the big man shares an anniversary. [...]
Wagner and Nietzsche: a handbook
Posted in Publications on February 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today, 13 February 2008, is the 125th anniversary of Richard Wagner’s death. To mark the occasion, Rowohlt has published Wagner und Nietzsche: Kultur, Werk und Wirkung, edited by Stefan Lorenz Sorgner, H. James Birx and Nikolaus Knoepffler.
Two of the contributors, Dieter Borchmeyer and Johann Figl, will give a joint talk on “Wagner, Nietzsche und das [...]
John Richardson public lecture
Posted in Events on February 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
John Richardson (NYU) will give a public lecture entitled ‘Nietzsche and the Ends of Life’ on 11 April, 5.00 – 6.30pm at the University of Southampton (UK).
This event is part of the Nietzsche and Modern Moral Philosophy project.
Venue: Lecture Theatre B, Avenue Campus, Humanities Building, University of Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK.
Admission free.
Janaway symposium programme
Posted in Events on February 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
As promised, more details on the forthcoming event Beyond Selflessness: Janaway on Nietzsche.
Date: 8 March, 2008
Venue: The Dorfman Centre, St, Peter’s College, Oxford
Programme
10 am Coffee
10.30am Chris Janaway (Southampton): Introduction
11am Ken Gemes (Birkbeck/Southampton): ‘Power, Perspectives, Sublimation’
12pm, Peter Kail (Oxford): ‘Naturalism and Genealogy’
1-2.30pm, Lunch (own arrangements)
2.30pm, Dan Came (Oxford): ‘Janaway on Nietzsche’s Critique of Schopenhauer’
3.30-4.30, [...]
Nietzsche and naturalism
Posted in Events on February 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Nietzsche and Modern Moral Philosophy Project, funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC), based at the University of Southampton, is hosting a conference with the theme of “Nietzsche, Naturalism and Normativity” on 10-11 July 2008.
Speakers:
Robert Guay
Nadeem Hussain
Brian Leiter
Christopher Janaway
Bernard Reginster
Christine Swanton
Richard Schacht
John Skorupski
Titles to be confirmed shortly.
Further details will be advertised shortly, [...]
Great philosophers newspaper giveaway
Posted in Publications on February 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Starting today, the UK Independent is running a 14-day series on the ‘great philosophers’, with a free supplement included in the print edition of the paper. Nietzsche, along with Husserl and Dewey, will feature in the issue of Tuesday, 12 February.
Nietzsche, Clinton, Yorke or Yoda?
Posted in Humour on February 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Who said what? The Quotation Vexation Sensation is here.
