Nietzsche and Embodiment

Kristen Brown Golden

Description

In Nietzsche and Embodiment Kristen Brown reveals the smartness of bodies, challenging the traditional view in the West that bodies are separate from and morally inferior to minds. Drawing inspiration from Nietzsche, Brown vividly describes why the interdependence of mind and body matters, both in Nietzsche's writings and for contemporary debates (non-dualism theory, Merleau-Ponty criticism, and metaphor studies), activities (spinal cord research and fasting), and specific human experiences (menses, trauma, and guilt). Brown's theories about the dynamic relationship between body and mind provide new possibilities for self-understanding and experience.

Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations

1. Introduction

2. Opening Nietzsche's Genealogy to"Feminine" Body: A Story of the Concepts of Dynamic Non-dualism and Relation

3. Nietzsche's Ascetic Ideals and a Process of the Production of Embodied Meaning

4. Nietzsche's Ascetic Ideals as a Process of the Production of Meaning

5. Nietzsche on a Practice and Concept of Guilt

6. Nietzsche, Metaphor, and Body

7. Nietzsche after Nietzsche: Trauma, Language, and the Writings of Merleau-Ponty

8. Nietzsche before Nietzsche: Heraclitu's Speech Opening Nietzsche's and Ours to Preliterate Perceptual Structures

Notes
References
Index

Sujets

• Philosophie
• Épistémologie
• Métaphysique
• Éthique et morale
• Ethique et morale
• Epistémologie
• Epistémologie
• Epistémologie
• English articles
• The
• Metaphysics

Informations

• Publié par: State University of New York Press
• Date de parution: 01 février 2012
• Nombre de lectures: 1
• EAN13: 9780791482193
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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KristenBrown

Nietzsche and Embodiment Discerning Bodies and Nondualism

A VOLUME IN THE SUNY SERIES IN CONTEMPORARY CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY

Nietzsche and Embodiment

SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy Dennis J. Schmidt, editor

Nietzsche and Embodiment

Discerning Bodies and Non-dualism

Kristen Brown

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Brown, Kristen, 1964– Nietzsche and embodiment : Discerning bodies and non-dualism / Kristen Brown. p. cm. — (SUNY series in contemporary continental philosophy) Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN-13: 978-0-7914-6651-3 (hardcover : alk. paper) ISBN-10: 0-7914-6651-5 (hardcover : alk. paper) ISBN-13: 978-0-7914-6652-0 (pbk : alk. paper) ISBN-10: 0-7914-6652-3 (pbk : alk. paper) 1. Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilheim, 1844–1900. 2. Body, Human. 3. Human beings. 4. Self. 5. Women—Physiology. I. Title. II. Series. B3317.B73 2006 193—dc22 2005006557 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

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Contents

Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Chapter 1. Introduction: Nietzsche and Embodiment Chapter 2. Opening Nietzsche’s Genealogy to “Feminine” Body: A Story of Dynamic Non-dualism and Relation Chapter 3. Nietzsche’s Ascetic Ideals and a Process of the Production of Embodied Meaning Chapter 4. Nietzsche’s Ascetic Idealsasa Process of the Production of Meaning Chapter 5. Nietzsche on a Practice and Concept of Guilt Chapter 6. Nietzsche, Metaphor, and Body Chapter 7. Nietzsche after Nietzsche: Trauma, Language, and the Writings of Merleau-Ponty Chapter 8. Nietzsche before Nietzsche: Heraclitus’s Speech Opening Nietzsche’s and Ours to Preliterate Perceptual Structures

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Acknowledgments

project such as this comes about through the support of many people A along the way. There are a few to whom I would like to express special thanks: to Michael Galchinsky, Anne MacMaster, Lisa Sigel, and Steve Smith for their helpful comments on certain draft chapters; to David Garcia, John Thata- manil, and Nona Olivia for their friendship, and comments on versions of the manuscript; and to Nona and her sons, Jasper Segal and Scott Vickers, for open- ing their home to me; a similar thanks to Idit Dobbs-Weinstein and Sophia Dobbs. Finally, thank you to the Brown, Garcia, and Golden families, and espe- cially Bruce and Chelsea, whose nurturance helped make this possible. An earlier version of chapter 2 appeared as “Possible and Questionable: Opening Nietzsche’s Genealogy to Feminine Body” inHypatiavolume 14 number 3, 1999.

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