Bodies and eternity
Nietzsche’s relation to the feminine
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11340618 |
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| Authors | Katrin Froese (University of Calgary, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 25-49 |
| Publication date | 2000-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Philosophy & Social Criticism (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0191-4537 • E-ISSN: 1461-734X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/019145370002600101 |
| OpenAlex | W2045812085 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 1 |
In this article, I argue that Nietzsche collapses the rigid dichotomy between nature and culture, as well as body and mind, by insisting on their mutually constitutive nature. This forces him to reconceptualize the role of women, who had traditionally been considered to be wedded to both the natural realm and the body. Nietzsche hails women for their insight that culture can never capture nature, and for being attuned to the interplay between the two realms. He attributes an enormous power to the maternal figure who becomes a symbol for life as a whole. Her power arouses his own resentment, and he redoubles his efforts to exclude her, once again driving a wedge between nature and culture
Aesthetics · Epistemology · Eternity · Natural (archaeology · Political science · Power (physics · Realm · Resentment · Sociology · Symbol (formal · Critical Theory and Philosophy · History · Law · Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Hegel · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism
| Highly cited | No |
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