04:30 PM to 07:10 PM R
Section Information for Fall 2019
On this course we will engage in depth with a number of Nietzsche’s most important texts to examine his project of conducting a ‘revaluation of values’. We will pay particular attention to the ways in which this revaluation depends on the movement in Nietzsche’s thinking from a more metaphysical and systematic mode of philosophizing to a radical de-systematization and turn toward perspectivalism (understood as a primarily ontological and anti-metaphysical turn, and only secondarily as epistemological).
Sub-themes to be explored include: truth, the body, philosophy as physiology, woman, science, health, language, art, the death of God, and affirmation. The work of John Sallis, Sarah Kofman and Eduardo Viveiros de Castro will be of particular importance in guiding and accompanying our reading. The primary texts by Nietzsche that we will be reading together include: The Birth of Tragedy; “On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense”; The Gay Science; Twilight of the Idols; and Ecce Homo.
For students in the Traditional and Contemporary Philosophy focus, this course will fulfill the contemporary philosophy requirement; or it can be used as an elective.
For students in the Ethics and Public Affairs concentration, this course can be used as an elective.
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Credits: 3
Enrollment limited to students with a class of Advanced to Candidacy, Graduate, Junior Plus, Non-Degree or Senior Plus.
Enrollment is limited to Graduate, Non-Degree or Undergraduate level students.
Students in a Non-Degree Undergraduate degree may not enroll.
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