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Derrida's Style: Formalism As An Address To The Other, Benjamin Leake
Derrida's Style: Formalism As An Address To The Other, Benjamin Leake
English Theses
Deconstruction’s widely accepted death has been closely associated with the death of its primary methodology: the practice of close reading, which has fallen into disfavor over the past three decades due to its association with formalism. The New Historical and political modes offer themselves as having inherited the important, iconoclastic features of deconstruction and at the same time offering a correction to its perceived faults. Three major figures in this turn, Stephen Greenblatt, Judith Butler, and Gayatri Spivak describe their work in accordance with this narrative of inheritance and correction. In this essay, I look at deconstruction’s relationship to formalism …
Nietzsche's Critique Of "Absolute" Music, David Swigart
Nietzsche's Critique Of "Absolute" Music, David Swigart
Philosophy Theses
In Human, All-Too-Human, Nietzsche initiates an unexpected criticism of art, specifically a criticism of its ability to help humans justify life in a world full of suffering. Nietzsche sets his sights on absolute music, music that perpetuates religious values inherited from Christianity and renders the modern listener unable to affirm life. Drawing from various sources in nineteenth-century Germany, including his former friend Richard Wagner, Nietzsche demonstrates that rather than relying on absolute music to help us come to terms with suffering, we must abandon it in order to overcome the life-negating values it perpetuates.
Vivisection And Moral Introspection In Nietzsche, Jacob Hogan
Vivisection And Moral Introspection In Nietzsche, Jacob Hogan
Philosophy Theses
Brian Leiter (2002) argues that Nietzsche’s claims about value, such as his criticisms of conventional morality, are not objectively grounded but are matters of taste. However, this view (i) conflicts with Nietzsche’s rhetoric and (ii) may fall into an unresolvable dilemma, as suggested by Ian Dunkle (2013). In response, I advance the claim that Nietzsche views moral value as being relationally, and thus objectively, grounded. For example, moral value claims can evaluated as prudentially good or bad for a person by appealing to the relationship between type-level facts about the person and the values they hold. This interpretation more clearly …
Philosophy As Bad Poetry: Schopenhauer And Nietzsche On The Ancient Quarrel, Bridget Berdit
Philosophy As Bad Poetry: Schopenhauer And Nietzsche On The Ancient Quarrel, Bridget Berdit
Philosophy Theses
In the final book of Plato’s Republic, Socrates bans the poets from his ideal city. According to Socrates, the poets bring about corruption and decadence: instead of pursuing and producing the truth, poets reproduce falsehoods – “images” as opposed to “the originals.” Only the philosophers, Socrates says, oversee the truth. However, Arthur Schopenhauer, the self-proclaimed inheritor of Platonic philosophy, seems to flip this idea on its head. Poets do manufacture images, but these images, Schopenhauer claims, are knowledge par excellence. In this paper, I explore Schopenhauer’s contribution to the “ancient quarrel between philosophy and poetry” and argue that, for …