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Some Genres Of Post-Hegelian Philosophy, Gary Shapiro
Some Genres Of Post-Hegelian Philosophy, Gary Shapiro
Philosophy Faculty Publications
There are a number of important texts, sometimes treated as philosophical and sometimes as literary works, which do not usually find an appropriate audience. Paradigms of what I have in mind are: Kierkegaard's pseudonymous writings, almost all of Nietzsche, Marx's narratives of capital and class-struggle, Sartre's complex series of fictions, plays, treatises, critical performances and autobiography, and Heidegger's hypnotic meditations and textual exegeses. Responses by philosophers, especially Anglo-American ones, seldom take account of the specific literary forms of these works or of their authors’ very self-conscious concern with the problems and strategies of writing. It is true that the texts …
Nietzsche Contra Renan, Gary Shapiro
Nietzsche Contra Renan, Gary Shapiro
Philosophy Faculty Publications
I mean by the title of this essay to allude to Nietzsche Contra Wagner and thereby to suggest the use which Nietzsche made of Renan in formulating some of his most distinctive thoughts. More specifically I suggest that Nietzsche's later view of history, especially as expressed in The Genealogy of Morals and The Antichrist, is a critique and parody of Renan's History of the Origins of Christianity. (I speak deliberately of Nietzsche's "view of history" rather than his "philosophy of history" because the latter phrase contains too many associations which Nietzsche's view rejects.) What is at issue is not a …
Political Unconscious: Narrative As A Socially Symbolic Act (Book Review), Gary Shapiro
Political Unconscious: Narrative As A Socially Symbolic Act (Book Review), Gary Shapiro
Philosophy Faculty Publications
Review of the book, Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act, by Fredric Jameson. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1981.