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A Note on Nietzsche’s Sarcasm: Stupid and Honest Mystics versus Dishonest and...
In the beginning of The Schlemiel as Modern Hero, Ruth Wisse points out that for Rabbi Nachman the Simpleton (that is, the schlemiel) acts “as if” good will triumph over evil. In his story, “The...
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“When Diogenes Pisses and Masturbates in the Marketplace” – On Peter...
Many philosophers have their pre-Socratic precursors. Plato had Parmenides, Karl Marx had Democritus, Friedrich Nietzsche had Heraclitus, and Martin Heidegger had Parmenides (and Anaximander). In...
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Too Much…Life: On Eric Santer’s “Psychotheology of Everyday Life” – Part I
Many Continental thinkers discuss “excess.” Besides Friedrich Nietzsche, the most notable exploration of excess can be found in the writings of Georges Bataille. He loves excess and his writings exude...
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Two Bodies of Comedy: On Friedrich Nietzsche & Robert Walser’s Bodies of Comedy
Nietzsche was obsessed with the relationship of the body to thought. And whenever he articulated his reading of the body, he always made sure to put it forth in what Peter Sloterdijk (winking at...
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