In his first encyclical, ‘Deus est Caritas’, Pope Benedict XVI criticized Nietzsche’s charge that Christianity poisoned eros his disdain for Christian ‘compassion and love’. Then Raniero Cantalamessa, the official preacher for the Vatican, took a swing at Nietzsche’s celebration of the will to power. So it was a bit disconcerting to see the Pope quoting [...]
Archive for January, 2009
Pope quotes Nietzsche
Posted in News & media on January 31, 2009 | 1 Comment »
From the vaults
Posted in From the Vaults on January 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From the New York Times, 5 January 1934, p. 13:
STUDENT ENDS HIS LIFE
Too Much Reading of Nietzsche Cause of Puerto Rican’s Death
SAN JUAN, P.R., Jan. 4 – Morbidness from too much reading of the German philosopher Nietzsche was the cause of the suicide of Rafael Toro, law student and son of Fernando Luis Toro, [...]
de Botton on Nietzsche
Posted in News & media on January 29, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Cadaverous British broadcaster Alain de Botton talks about Nietzsche and happiness (from the UK TV series Philosophy: A Guide To Happiness).
Deadline extension!
Posted in Events on January 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The deadline for submission of abstracts for the 2009 FNS conference in Oxford has been postponed to 15 March.
Nietzsche-Studien 2008
Posted in Publications on January 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Volume 37 of Nietzsche-Studien was published this past November. Table of contents here.
Conference on Gay Science
Posted in Events on January 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The International Nietzsche Research Group is hosting a conference on The Gay Science from 12-13 March 2009 in Reims (France). The event has been organised by the University of Reims, the University of Toulouse-le-Mirail, the University of Pisa and Ernst Moritz Arndt University, Greisfwald.
Speakers include: Anne-Gaëlle Argy (Reims), Dr. Tom Bailey, Blaise Benoit (Nantes), [...]
Call for papers
Posted in Calls for papers on January 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
31st Annual Nietzsche Society (US) Meeting with the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy
Thursday, 29 October, 9am-12pm, Marriott Key Bridge Hotel, Arlington, Virginia
Submission Deadline: 30 March
Contact: Babette Babich
Executive Program Committee: David B Allison, State University of New York at Stony Brook; Debra Bergoffen, George Mason University; Gary Shapiro, University of Richmond
Nietzsche on Time and History
Posted in Publications on January 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This came out in November: Manuel Dries (ed.), Nietzsche on Time and History (De Gruyter). Many of the essays included in this volume started out life as papers at the 2005 FNS conference.
Nietzsche and Metallica
Posted in Nietzsche's name in vain on January 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From Arno Frank’s review of Metallica’s latest album, Death Magnetic, in Die Zeit:
Friedrich Nietzsche würde Metallica lieben. Death Magnetic, das neue, neunte Album der Band würde sich der bekannte Verehrer des frühen Richard Wagner sicher mehrmals täglich und in betäubender Lautstärke zu Gemüte führen. Denn wie beim Komponisten dominiert auch beim Rock des Fachbereichs Metal [...]
Paper tiger
Posted in News & media, Nietzsche's name in vain on January 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Alexander Lebedev, the prospective Russian owner of London rag The Evening Standard, is apparently, according to The Guardian at least, a ” philanthropist and patron of the arts who has been known to quote Nietzsche”. The same Nietzsche who railed against the journalistic “pseudo-culture” of Wilhelmine Germany? (And what would our man have made of [...]
