The Shortest Shadow
Nietzsche's Philosophy of the Two
$70.86
- Paperback
202 pages
- Release Date
26 September 2003
Summary
Restoring Nietzsche to a Nietzschean context-examining the definitive element that animates his work.What is it that makes Nietzsche Nietzsche? In The Shortest Shadow, Alenka Zupančič counters the currently fashionable appropriation of Nietzsche as a philosopher who was “ahead of his time” but whose time has finally come-the rather patronizing reduction of his often extraordinary statements to mere opinions that we can “share.” Zupančič argues that the definitive Nietzschean quality is his ve…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262740265 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262740265 |
| Author: | Alenka Zupancic |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 202 |
| Release Date: | 26 September 2003 |
| Weight: | 227g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 137mm x 10mm |
| Series: | Short Circuits |
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“Alenka Zupancic has given us a strikingly new reading of Nietzsche. Against the postmodernist domestication of Nietzsche’s philosophy, Zupancic restores the shock of Nietzsche’s style and thought, reading him alongside Jacques Lacan and Alain Badiou as a revolutionary ‘philosopher of the event.’”–Christoph Cox, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Hampshire College “Alenka Zupancic is one of those rare writers whose capacity for decision is equal to her intelligence…Read these essays and you will see what kind of a spiritual explosion a writing bomb can produce in the hands of a true pyrotechnist.” Alain Badiou
About The Author
Alenka Zupancic
Alenka Zupančič, a Slovenian psychoanalytic theorist and philosopher, teaches at the European Graduate School and is a researcher at the Institute of Philosophy at the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and the Arts. She is the author of The Shortest Shadow- Nietzsche’s Philosophy of the Two and The Odd One In- On Comedy, both in the Short Circuits series, published by the MIT Press.
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