The Pseudoman in Nietzsche, or the Threat of the Neuter

In Spurs, Derrida playfully takes up trace of Nietzsche's antifeminism. In this monologue on Nietzsche's styles, we are given a glimpse of where Nietzsche might be heading when question of is raised, when impotence is denounced as attack on life, when even scholarly objectivity is seen as sterility and death of creativity. Derrida teases reader by suspending his own critical judgment and Nietzsche, silencing here meant as outcome of act of deconstruction. Derrida includes citations which permit reader to recognize Nietzsche, but a Nietzsche without agenda, without direction, hovering at a crossroads of possibilities, just as mendacious poet-philosopher Zarathustra performs aerial acrobatics on his rainbow of lies.' For at outset of Spurs, Derrida writes: the title for this lecture was to have been question of style. However it is woman who will be my subject. Still, one might wonder whether that doesn't really amount to same thing or is it to other.2 The ambiguity is Derrida's (and his translator's)

Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Hegel · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism

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  James Martel, James R Martel•Qui Parle•2012

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