Mat Messerschmidt
Biographic Data
| ID | 1694729 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mat Messerschmidt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mat |
| FAMILY NAME | Messerschmidt |
| SIGNATURE | MESSERSCHMIDT M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Chicago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Embodiment and Subversion
This article considers the importance of Nietzsche’s GM I 13 to Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble (1990), arguing that Butler misreads Nietzsche’s passage and exploring the implications of their misreading. I begin by placing Butler’s reading in the context of French poststructuralist readings of Nietzsche that appear to have influenced Butler. I then turn to Butler’s crucial invocation of GM I 13, showing how Nietzsche is claiming that consideratio…
Nietzsche's Confrontation with Christianity via the Body and History
In this article I argue that Nietzsche understands history as physiological history and that he takes the history of the body that he advances to be a repudiation of Christianity. Nietzsche’s body is the body as a coalition of drives (Triebe); in Antichrist, Nietzsche records Paul’s attempt to write the body out of history. The death of God represents a dawning self-awareness on the part of the body, such that Christianity’s disembodied history b…
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Nietzsche's Confrontation with Christianity via the Body and History
In this article I argue that Nietzsche understands history as physiological history and that he takes the history of the body that he advances to be a repudiation of Christianity. Nietzsche’s body is the body as a coalition of drives (Triebe); in Antichrist, Nietzsche records Paul’s attempt to write the body out of history. The death of God represents a dawning self-awareness on the part of the body, such that Christianity’s disembodied history b…
Embodiment and Subversion
This article considers the importance of Nietzsche’s GM I 13 to Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble (1990), arguing that Butler misreads Nietzsche’s passage and exploring the implications of their misreading. I begin by placing Butler’s reading in the context of French poststructuralist readings of Nietzsche that appear to have influenced Butler. I then turn to Butler’s crucial invocation of GM I 13, showing how Nietzsche is claiming that consideratio…
Art (1 work) · Asceticism (1 work) · Body of Christ (1 work) · Christianity (1 work) · Close reading (1 work) · Conviction (1 work) · Diverse academic research themes (1 work) · Feminism, Gender, and Intersectionality (1 work) · Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (1 work) · Hierarchy (1 work)