Nietzsche against Metaphysics: The Ironic Naturalism of the Gay Science
Martin Heidegger and Richard Rorty argue that Nietzsche commits himself to biological naturalism. But I explore Nietzsche as a pure anti-metaphysician.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Nietzsche on Joy: N.B. Requires Anguish
Nietzsche on Joy: he writes in the Preface to The Gay Science that authentic joy and depth only arise from an encounter with prolonged anguish.
Nietzsche and the Ancients: Against Fear as a Way of Life
Nietzsche and the Ancients. Confront life on life’s terms. Even when those terms seem perverse and brutal. Sallust, Horace, Thucydides.
Nietzsche on Moral Progressivism: Stupid, Deceptive, False
Nietzsche’s Twilight offers a critique of moral progressivism: the idea that morality just keeps getting better. Read to find out why.
Oedipus in Washington: Nietzsche on Education
This article explores the history of the vocationalization of the American University and its consequences using the work of Friedrich Nietzsche on Education.
Four Great Errors: Nietzsche’s Critique of Causation
Nietzsche names ‘four great errors’ in Twilight. The title plays on Aristotle’s four causes of being and marks a loose critique of Aristotelian metaphysics.
Nietzsche on the Moralist’s You Should
This article explores three philosophical dimensions of the mind of a person who tells another: “You should”. I use Twilight of the Idols by Friedrich Nietzsche to trace epistemic, ontological, and psychological dimensions of the “you should.”
Nietzschean Genealogy: Snapshots
This article tracks some basic features of Nietzschean genealogy. Is moral criticism immanent in Nietszchean genealogy or does genealogy merely destabilize?
Toward an Episode of Laughter (genealogiae genealogo medens)
This article analyzes the schema of the conditions of possibility on the basis of which, after the subject has thoroughly attuned itself to Foucauldiano-Nietzschean genealogy, it can occur that the subject genuinely smiles.
Reflections on Biebtzsche’s Biebermensch
Nietzschean ruminations on the status of academic philosophy as responsible for the American celebrity.