Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: In this essay, I read Ecce Homo as a guide to the hushed byways within Nietzsche's "labyrinth of audacious insights" (EH, "Why I Write," #3, pg. 264). In Ecce Homo, Nietzsche resorts to exaggerated, bombastic self-assertion. Yet Nietzsche's idiosyncratic "autobiography" attests the devastating consequences, literary and philosophical, that Nietzsche draws from extreme reserve. Nietzsche counts his "multifarious art of style" amongst his proudest achievements - Nietzsche's stylistic innovations attest his epoch-making significance (EH, "Why I Write," #4, pg. 265). "Before me, it was not known what could be done with the German language - what could be done with language in general" (EH, "Why I Write," #4, pg. 265). Revisiting all of Nietzsche's works, Ecce Homo asks how texts best communicate incendiary insights, and whether they can or should portray the "author" of these insights. Ecce Homo intimates answers that may surprise readers fixated upon the apparent volume and vehemence of Nietzsche's boasts, for silence is one of the sharpest arrows in Nietzsche's stylistic quiver. A resounding vindication of reticence, Ecce Homo - one of Nietzsche's most peculiar and least "political" works - emerges as a key text for refining the political theorist's vocation.

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Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: This paper argues that "Beyond Good and Evil" is a part by part reply to Plato's "Republic." What Plato does with eros in the "Republic," Nietzsche does with will to power in "Beyond Good and Evil." Awareness of this relation between the two texts provides clearer access to the meaning and significance of will to power.

Publication Type: Proceeding

Publication Type: Proceeding
Abstract: This paper examines the idea of immortality in the work of Friedrich Nietzsche. It begins by identifying the impulse to immortality as a form of the will to power. The concept is then described as an effort to project one’s being beyond the usual existential boundaries. This ontological projection is, for Nietzsche, a healthy and normal part of human existence if done correctly. For Nietzsche, the correct way is epitomized by the pre-Socratic vision of immortality, which is characterized in this paper as “cosmological projection.” This form of immortality is most vividly manifest in Nietzsche’s work in Greek tragedy and, in this author’s vision, at the ancient Olympic athletic competitions.

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Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: Nietzsche and Kant are generally
viewed as occupying opposing places on the philosophical spectrum. I
challenge this widespread claim and argue that Nietzsche is working
both with and against Kant in terms of his new morality. Nietzsche's
often harsh rhetoric against Kant serves as a mask that, on closer
examination, conceals major points of similarity. Through an analysis
of On the Genealogy of Morals as well as other texts, I demonstrate
that Nietzsche is working within a fundamentally Kantian conception of
moral autonomy in terms of two of his most provocative formulations:
pathos of distance and law of life. Not only does Nietzsche's
radicalization of Kant direct new attention to Nietzsche's interest in
ethical foundations but my paper shifts the terrain for both the
reception of Kant and Nietzsche. Bringing Kant and Nietzsche together
yields a richer version of Nietzschean autonomy that overcomes some of
the shortcomings of the Kantian conception and opens the door to new
directions for Nietzsche scholarship.