The Essay and the Art of Interpretation
Caygill and Nietzsche
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21371740 |
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| Authors | Stephen Howard (0000-0002-7194-3853, Institute of Philosophy KU Leuven, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 274-285 |
| Publication date | 2022-10-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Philosophy and Rhetoric (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-8213 • E-ISSN: 1527-2079 |
| Publisher | The Pennsylvania State University Press (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5325/philrhet.55.3.0274 |
| OpenAlex | W4306655094 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
This article speculatively reconstructs what I call Howard Caygill’s “unwritten book” on Nietzsche, based on the collection of Caygill’s philosophical essays, Force and Understanding (2021). I propose that an engagement with Nietzsche’s thought runs throughout Caygill’s work, although it would be a mistake to label Caygill a “Nietzschean.” One particularly relevant aspect of Nietzsche’s philosophy is his conception of philological reading. After outlining this, I examine the Nietzsche who emerges from Caygill’s essays and thus the central themes of the “unwritten book.” I close by considering the implications of my account for the distinction between two philosophical forms: the treatise and the essay
Art · Epistemology · Feminism · Interpretation (philosophy) · Linguistics · Literature · Mistake · Philology · Reading (process) · Sociology · Law · Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Hegel · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought
| Highly cited | No |
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