Jill Marsden
Biographic Data
| ID | 3859433 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jill Marsden |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jill |
| FAMILY NAME | Marsden |
| SIGNATURE | MARSDEN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Greater Manchester |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1669-3182 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Value of Art for Life
The contribution that arts can make to our health and wellbeing is widely acknowledged in public discourse, with the concept of ‘creative health’ having come to prominence in the UK in the last ten years. This paper asks about the kinds of values at play in contemporary appeals to creativity by exploring the value of art for life from a philosophical perspective. Drawing on Pierre Hadot’s influential work on the ancient philosophical practice of …
Mass Observation, Counterculture and the ‘Art of Living’
Mass Observation was the most ambitious and controversial investigation into cultural life in Britain in the twentieth century. Buoyed by a democratic spirit yet riven by eclectic intellectual allegiances, the project, in its inception, revelled in contradictions, many of which have endured in its legacy. This paper revisits the early countercultural aspirations of Mass Observation in order to reflect on the significance of these contradictions f…
Nietzsche, Nihilism, and the “New Materialist” Thought
In this article, I draw connections between Nietzsche's diagnosis of nihilism, his emphasis on the importance of the things “nearest” to us and often overlooked, and methodological issues in contemporary thought. In particular, the connection between “the devaluation of the highest values” and the task of transvaluation gives us a context for addressing nihilism as a crisis of orientation. I argue that Nietzsche's turn toward the “nearest” things…
Poetic Connections
If to be sympathetic to others is a prerequisite for harmonious community, how does this function in the absence of identities in common? In his figurations of sympathy as auto-poetic affectivity, Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself offers a way; exceeding the humanist register on which much thinking about community relies
Thought on the outside
This paper seeks to establish what is distinctive about Will Self’s return to techniques of literary modernism in his novel Umbrella (2012). Despite deploying narrative styles typically reserved for the depiction of ‘inner’ worlds, Self’s novel seems more concerned with the concept of thought as a stream than with the psychological introspection afforded by ‘stream of consciousness’ narration. Drawing on William James’s founding ideas about the ‘…
Orienting Nietzsche's "Nearest Things" in Kafka's Letters to Felice
Franz Kafka's five-year correspondence with Felice Bauer is marked by an unusual fascination with the practice of writing and receiving letters and with the minutiae of the everyday. I suggest that Friedrich Nietzsche's notion of the "nearest things" illuminates Kafka's letter-writing as an embodied style or "orientation" of thought
Nietzsche and the Art of the Aphorism
Sensing the Overhuman
Research Article| October 01 2005 Sensing the Overhuman Jill Marsden Jill Marsden Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Journal of Nietzsche Studies (2005) (30): 102–114. https://doi.org/10.2307/20717865 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Jill Marsden; Sensing the Overhuman. The Journal of Nietzsche Studies 1 October 2005; (30): 102–114. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/20717865 Download …
Between Philosophy and Poetry
Trauma and Temporality
The authors argue that attention to the Freudian and Derridean concepts of Nachtr®aglichkeit and diff¥erance might challenge the implicit assumption of the linear development of traumatic stress from originary event to presenting symptoms. These concepts raise fundamental questions as to the origin of trauma and its ontological status. It is suggested that the psychical reality of retro-causality necessitates a reorientation of current thought ab…
Deleuzian bodies, feminist tactics
How does philosophy make a difference to bodies? Must a discipline as seemingly abstract as philosophy content itself with merely ‘theorizing’ the body or can it utilize its distinctive critical re
After Nietszche
This book explores the imaginative possibilities for philosophy created by Nietzsche's sustained reflection on the notion of ecstasy. From The Birth of Tragedy to his experimental 'Physiology of Art', Nietzsche examines the aesthetic, erotic and sacred dimensions of rapture, hinting at how an ecstatic philosophy is realized in his elusive doctrine of Eternal Return. Taking inspiration from Nietzsche, Jill Marsden presents the view that adventures…
Lines of Flight
Examinant le cas de paranoaia du president Schreber etudie par Freud et la description dionysiaque de la possibilite d'une communication infinie chez Nietzsche, l'A. souleve la problematique du devenir autrui qui consiste a faire apparaitre un nouveau principe de communication a travers la dissolution de l'identite de soi dans la multiplicite. Se referant a P. Klossowski, l'A. interroge la coherence du soi des lors qu'il est menace de s'annihiler
On the Matter of Sexual Difference
Analyse de l'idee de construction du sexe, par opposition a sa definition naturelle, dans l'ouvrage de J. Butler intitule «Bodies that matter» (1993) et dans l'ouvrage de R. Diprose intitule «The bodies of women» (1994). Si toutes deux etudient en termes foucaldiens les discours qui modelent l'incarnation sexuee, elles se distinguent quant a leur conception de la materialite de la difference sexuelle
Strange alliances
Deleuzian bodies, feminist tactics
How does philosophy make a difference to bodies? Must a discipline as seemingly abstract as philosophy content itself with merely ‘theorizing’ the body or can it utilize its distinctive critical re
Nietzsche, Nihilism, and the “New Materialist” Thought
In this article, I draw connections between Nietzsche's diagnosis of nihilism, his emphasis on the importance of the things “nearest” to us and often overlooked, and methodological issues in contemporary thought. In particular, the connection between “the devaluation of the highest values” and the task of transvaluation gives us a context for addressing nihilism as a crisis of orientation. I argue that Nietzsche's turn toward the “nearest” things…
Strange alliances
On the Matter of Sexual Difference
Analyse de l'idee de construction du sexe, par opposition a sa definition naturelle, dans l'ouvrage de J. Butler intitule «Bodies that matter» (1993) et dans l'ouvrage de R. Diprose intitule «The bodies of women» (1994). Si toutes deux etudient en termes foucaldiens les discours qui modelent l'incarnation sexuee, elles se distinguent quant a leur conception de la materialite de la difference sexuelle
Lines of Flight
Examinant le cas de paranoaia du president Schreber etudie par Freud et la description dionysiaque de la possibilite d'une communication infinie chez Nietzsche, l'A. souleve la problematique du devenir autrui qui consiste a faire apparaitre un nouveau principe de communication a travers la dissolution de l'identite de soi dans la multiplicite. Se referant a P. Klossowski, l'A. interroge la coherence du soi des lors qu'il est menace de s'annihiler
After Nietszche
This book explores the imaginative possibilities for philosophy created by Nietzsche's sustained reflection on the notion of ecstasy. From The Birth of Tragedy to his experimental 'Physiology of Art', Nietzsche examines the aesthetic, erotic and sacred dimensions of rapture, hinting at how an ecstatic philosophy is realized in his elusive doctrine of Eternal Return. Taking inspiration from Nietzsche, Jill Marsden presents the view that adventures…
Trauma and Temporality
The authors argue that attention to the Freudian and Derridean concepts of Nachtr®aglichkeit and diff¥erance might challenge the implicit assumption of the linear development of traumatic stress from originary event to presenting symptoms. These concepts raise fundamental questions as to the origin of trauma and its ontological status. It is suggested that the psychical reality of retro-causality necessitates a reorientation of current thought ab…
Deleuzian bodies, feminist tactics
How does philosophy make a difference to bodies? Must a discipline as seemingly abstract as philosophy content itself with merely ‘theorizing’ the body or can it utilize its distinctive critical re
Sensing the Overhuman
Research Article| October 01 2005 Sensing the Overhuman Jill Marsden Jill Marsden Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Journal of Nietzsche Studies (2005) (30): 102–114. https://doi.org/10.2307/20717865 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Jill Marsden; Sensing the Overhuman. The Journal of Nietzsche Studies 1 October 2005; (30): 102–114. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/20717865 Download …
Between Philosophy and Poetry
Nietzsche and the Art of the Aphorism
Orienting Nietzsche's "Nearest Things" in Kafka's Letters to Felice
Franz Kafka's five-year correspondence with Felice Bauer is marked by an unusual fascination with the practice of writing and receiving letters and with the minutiae of the everyday. I suggest that Friedrich Nietzsche's notion of the "nearest things" illuminates Kafka's letter-writing as an embodied style or "orientation" of thought
Thought on the outside
This paper seeks to establish what is distinctive about Will Self’s return to techniques of literary modernism in his novel Umbrella (2012). Despite deploying narrative styles typically reserved for the depiction of ‘inner’ worlds, Self’s novel seems more concerned with the concept of thought as a stream than with the psychological introspection afforded by ‘stream of consciousness’ narration. Drawing on William James’s founding ideas about the ‘…
Poetic Connections
If to be sympathetic to others is a prerequisite for harmonious community, how does this function in the absence of identities in common? In his figurations of sympathy as auto-poetic affectivity, Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself offers a way; exceeding the humanist register on which much thinking about community relies
Nietzsche, Nihilism, and the “New Materialist” Thought
In this article, I draw connections between Nietzsche's diagnosis of nihilism, his emphasis on the importance of the things “nearest” to us and often overlooked, and methodological issues in contemporary thought. In particular, the connection between “the devaluation of the highest values” and the task of transvaluation gives us a context for addressing nihilism as a crisis of orientation. I argue that Nietzsche's turn toward the “nearest” things…
Mass Observation, Counterculture and the ‘Art of Living’
Mass Observation was the most ambitious and controversial investigation into cultural life in Britain in the twentieth century. Buoyed by a democratic spirit yet riven by eclectic intellectual allegiances, the project, in its inception, revelled in contradictions, many of which have endured in its legacy. This paper revisits the early countercultural aspirations of Mass Observation in order to reflect on the significance of these contradictions f…
The Value of Art for Life
The contribution that arts can make to our health and wellbeing is widely acknowledged in public discourse, with the concept of ‘creative health’ having come to prominence in the UK in the last ten years. This paper asks about the kinds of values at play in contemporary appeals to creativity by exploring the value of art for life from a philosophical perspective. Drawing on Pierre Hadot’s influential work on the ancient philosophical practice of …
Philosophy (12 works) · Art (8 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Literature (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Aesthetics (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism (5 works) · Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Hegel (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works)