Nietzsche, Feminism and Political Theory
Language: English
Pages: 264
ISBN: 0415082560
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Are you visiting women? Do not forget your whip!'
'Thus Spoke Zarathustra
'the democratic movement is...a form assumed by man in decay'
Beyond Good and Evil
Nietzsche's views on women and politics have long been the most embarrassing aspects of his thought. Why then has the work of Nietzsche aroused so much interest in recent years from feminist theorists and political philosophers?
In answer, this collection comprises twelve outsanding essays on Mietzsche 's work to current debates in feminist and political theory, It is the first to focus on the way in which Nietzche has become an essential point of reference for postmodern ehtical and political thought.
Real Freedom for All: What (If Anything) Can Justify Capitalism?
Althusser: The Detour of Theory (2nd Edition) (Historical Materialism Book Series, Volume 13)
Community and Civil Society (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought)
Distance or difference. Men may assume they can capture the dangerous plaything they need to discover the child in themselves (to create themselves anew). But the Old Woman’s advice to these men is: ‘You are going to women? Do not forget the whip’ (1966:67). It is one thing to conclude that ‘woman’ is distance (or distancing) and, therefore, that women do not coincide with either the surface as fetish or with the truth of woman beneath. It is another to suggest that the concept of woman which man.
Gift of a corporeal mother. And in her multi-level interpretation, where sex is never far away, God’s death means that Zarathustra, at least, has ‘given up’ his fetish, the comforting substitute for the maternal phallus, and must face the other, woman, as different, not equal to, not identical, not the same. The way is now clear, the horizon open for this epiphany; he opened it himself. But he can’t manage it. His superman, his eternal return, his will, his metamorphoses of the spirit, and his.
Embodied objectivity that accommodates paradoxical and critical feminist science projects: feminist objectivity means quite simply situated knowledge.6 Haraway’s brand of feminism conveys a postmodern sensibility in large part because she has abandoned the quest for an epistemically pure, foundationally innocent standpoint. Indeed, a primary aim of her writing is to disabuse feminists of the perceived need for an 116 Daniel W.Conway untainted, originary, epistemically pure standpoint from.
Academics follow research in women’s studies, develop gender-inclusive curricula or use non-sexist language, but it can only be pleasing to them to have others supporting and proposing criteria and techniques of surveillance and appraisal. Foucault says: in thinking of the mechanisms of power, I am thinking of its capillary form of existence, the point where power reaches into the very grain of individuals, touches their bodies and inserts itself Ressentiment and power 141 into their actions.
Precisely for his idealism and his self-abasement. It may be that one of the Nietzschean masks expresses a ressentiment toward women, and this would be the elevation of women into a glorious ideal where this expresses a fear of the non-truth of women and an aversion to close and dangerous proximity to her. 15 However, it is most important that we sniff no ‘humility’, no self-abasement in the affirmative pleasure Nietzsche does describe in the enjoyment of woman at a ‘magical’ distance (if that.