Nietzsche and Phenomenology

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Nietzsche in dialogue with Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and others

What are the challenges that Nietzsche's philosophy poses for contemporary phenomenology? Elodie Boublil, Christine Daigle, and an international group of scholars take Nietzsche in new directions and shed light on the sources of phenomenological method in Nietzsche, echoes and influences of Nietzsche within modern phenomenology, and connections between Nietzsche, phenomenology, and ethics. Nietzsche and Phenomenology offers a historical and systematic reconsideration of the scope of Nietzsche's thought.

Introduction
Élodie Boublil and Christine Daigle
Part I. Life and Intentionality
1. Husserl and Nietzsche
Rudolf Boehm, Translation by Élodie Boublil and Christine Daigle
2. The Intentional Encounter with 'the World"
Christine Daigle
3. On Nietzsche's Genealogy and Husserl's Genetic Phenomenology: The Case of Suffering
Saulius Geniusas
4. Live Free or Battle: Subjectivity for Nietzsche and Husserl
Kristen Brown Golden
5. Giants Battle Anew: Nihilism's Self-Overcoming in Europe and Asia (Nietzsche, Heidegger, Nishitani)
Françoise Bonardel, Translated by Ron Ross
Part II. Power and Expression
6. Fink, Reading Nietzsche: On Overcoming Metaphysics
Françoise Dastur, Translated by Ron Ross
7. Nietzsche's Performative Phenomenology: Philology and Music
Babette Babich
8. Of the Vision and the Riddle: From Nietzsche to Phenomenology
Élodie Boublil
9. The "Biology" To Come? Encounter between Husserl, Nietzsche and Some Contemporaries
Bettina Bergo
10. Originary Dehiscence: An Invitation to Explore the Resonances Between the Philosophies of Nietzsche and Merleau-Ponty
Frank Chouraqui
11. Nietzsche and Merleau-Ponty: Art, Sacred Life, and Phenomenology of Flesh
Galen A. Johnson
Part III. Subjectivity in the World
12. The Philosophy of the Morning: Philosophy and Phenomenology in Nietzsche's Dawn
Keith Ansell-Pearson
13. Appearance and Values: Nietzsche and an Ethics of Life
Lawrence J. Hatab
14. The Object of Phenomenology
Didier Franck, Translated by Bettina Bergo
15. Beyond Phenomenology
Didier Franck, Translated by Bettina Bergo
Contributors
Index

Sujets

• Philosophie
• Épistémologie
• Philosophie de l'esprit
• Movements
• PHILOSOPHY
• Philosophie et théologie
• Phenomenology

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• Publié par: Indiana University Press
• Date de parution: 19 juin 2013
• Nombre de lectures: 1
• EAN13: 9780253009449
• Langue: English

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NIETZSCHE AND PHENOMENOLOGY
STUDIES IN CONTINENTAL THOUGHT
John Sallis, Editor
Consulting Editors
Robert Bernasconi
Rudolph Bernet
John D. Caputo
David Carr
Edward S. Casey
Hubert Dreyfus
Don Ihde
David Farrell Krell
Lenore Langsdorf
Alphonso Lingis
William L. McBride
J. N. Mohanty
Mary Rawlinson
Tom Rockmore
Calvin O. Schrag
Reiner Sch rmann
Charles E. Scott
Thomas Sheehan
Robert Sokolowski
Bruce W. Wilshire
David Wood
NIETZSCHE AND PHENOMENOLOGY
Power, Life, Subjectivity
Edited by lodie Boublil and Christine Daigle
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Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction \ lodie Boublil and Christine Daigle
Part I. Life and Intentionality
1 Husserl and Nietzsche \ Rudolf Boehm
2 The Intentional Encounter with the World \ Christine Daigle
3 On Nietzsche s Genealogy and Husserl s Genetic Phenomenology: The Case of Suffering \ Saulius Geniusas
4 Live Free or Battle: Subjectivity for Nietzsche and Husserl \ Kristen Brown Golden
5 Giants Battle Anew: Nihilism s Self-Overcoming in Europe and Asia (Nietzsche, Heidegger, Nishitani) \ Fran oise Bonardel
6 Fink, Reading Nietzsche: On Overcoming Metaphysics \ Fran oise Dastur
Part II. Power and Expression
7 Nietzsche s Performative Phenomenology: Philology and Music \ Babette Babich
8 Of the Vision and the Riddle: From Nietzsche to Phenomenology \ lodie Boublil
9 The Biology to Come? Encounter between Husserl, Nietzsche, and Some Contemporaries \ Bettina Bergo
10 Originary Dehiscence: An Invitation to Explore the Resonances between the Philosophies of Nietzsche and Merleau-Ponty \ Frank Chouraqui
11 Nietzsche and Merleau-Ponty: Art, Sacred Life, and Phenomenology of Flesh \ Galen A. Johnson
Part III. Subjectivity in the World
12 The Philosophy of the Morning: Philosophy and Phenomenology in Nietzsche s Dawn \ Keith Ansell-Pearson
13 Appearance and Values: Nietzsche and an Ethics of Life \ Lawrence J. Hatab
14 The Object of Phenomenology \ Didier Franck
15 Beyond Phenomenology \ Didier Franck
Index
Contributors
Acknowledgments
W E WOULD LIKE to thank our contributors for their enthusiastic response to our invitation to write on the very important topic this volume explores. Without the quality of their individual investigations, this book would not have been possible. We also wish to thank Dee Mortensen, Sarah Eileen Jacobi, and Tim Roberts at Indiana University Press, and the copyeditor, Judith Hoover, for their support and invaluable help on this project. Further, we would like to thank John Sallis for seeing enough value in our manuscript to include it in this prestigious series. Thanks are due to Christopher R. Wood for his work as research assistant on this project; as always, we could count on him for excellent work. Thanks are also due to Bettina Bergo, who translated Didier Franck s contributions, and to Ron Ross for his translations of Fran oise Bonardel s and Fran oise Dastur s essays. Alina Vaisfeld is to be thanked for her help finalizing the translation of Rudolf Boehm s essay. We are grateful to Rudolf Boehm and Didier Franck for trusting us with the translations of their essays for inclusion in this volume, as well as Kluwer and Presses Universitaires de France for granting us the rights to those essays.
More personal thanks are also due.
lodie Boublil would like to thank Christine for giving her the chance to work on this project. Christine has been a wonderful coeditor, and lodie has learned a lot from her experience and joyful science. lodie also acknowledges the support of the Canadian Centre for German and European Studies, which sponsored a research trip to Germany. More personally, lodie would like to thank her parents, friends, and professors for their support, trust, and inspiring dedication.
Christine Daigle would like to thank lodie for having set this whole enterprise in motion. lodie has been a great coeditor, and working with her has been a wonderful experience. Her professionalism, expertise, and hard work have improved this manuscript and made it the valuable book it is now. For that Christine is very thankful. Christine also acknowledges the support of the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, which has, in part, supported this project through a Standard Research Grant. More personally, Christine would like to thank her partner, Eric Gignac, for everything.
NIETZSCHE AND PHENOMENOLOGY
Introduction
lodie Boublil and Christine Daigle
Against the shortsighted.-Do you think this work must be fragmentary because I give it to you (and have to give it to you) in fragments?
-Human, All Too Human II, Assorted Opinions and Maxims, 128
P UTTING NIETZSCHE AND phenomenology together in the same sentence might be startling to some, even unpalatable to others. Nietzsche s writing style along with his rejection of the Spirit of Gravity 1 would seem to oppose the very goal of the phenomenological project as well as its foundational and scientific ambition. To Nietzsche scholars, his philosophy would be irreducible to any kind of philosophical school or movement and would need to be treated on its own if one wants to respect the claim for singularity conveyed by his philosophy. To would-be phenomenologists, the so-called nihilistic enterprise led by Nietzsche should not be the last word addressed to modernity before its unavoidable decay: another method-another pathway-should be implemented in order to ultimately uncover some common ontological and ethical grounds upon which humanity could dwell.
Husserl s phenomenological project uncovers the foundational nature of transcendental subjectivity from a scientific as well as a practical point of view. As Husserl claimed at the end of the Vienna Lecture (May 1935), the intentional and teleological structure of transcendental subjectivity guarantees its universality and allows it to overcome the value-relativism and theoretical positivism to which previous critiques of metaphysics have led:
The crisis could then become clear as the seeming collapse of rationalism. Still, as we said, the reason for the downfall of a rational culture does not lie in the essence of rationalism itself but only in its exteriorization, its absorption in naturalism and objectivism. The crisis of European existence can end in only one of two ways: in the ruin of a Europe alienated from its rational sense of life, fallen into a barbarian hatred of spirit; or in the rebirth of Europe from the spirit of philosophy, through a heroism of reason that will definitively overcome naturalism. 2
Heidegger s view seems to take up this same task while emphasizing its ontological rather than epistemic sense. The call of Being would seem to replace any metaphysical ground insofar as it would allow Dasein to comprehend the very possibility of its own existence and to achieve it authentically. In Merleau-Ponty, notions of perception and institution would probably help get rid of the objectivistic connotations associated with the notion of foundation-and, ultimately, the overcoming of Cartesian ontology-while granting individuals as well as communities some power to perpetuate and flourish through their own expressions and instantiations. Even roughly and briefly summarized, these three phenomenological approaches seem to show that there is a positivity at stake in phenomenology that would go beyond the destructive process implemented by Nietzsche s philosophy. Why, then, explore the historical and philosophical relations between Nietzsche and phenomenology? Could phenomenology actually qualify as a fr hliche Wissenschaft ? 3
The topic of our volume is one that ought to have been explored for a long time. Scholars hinted at the connection, pointed in its direction, even suggested how potentially rich such a reading would be, and yet, possibly due to the aforementioned reasons, there is still only one book-length inquiry into the topic. 4 Boehm s Husserl und Nietzsche (1968) 5 constituted the first attempt to draw a comparison between Husserl s phenomenology and Nietzsche s thought. Boehm notably put the emphasis on their common approach to life as a meaning-making process and on the fact that there seems to be a precedence of the life-world ( Lebenswelt ) over theoretical and scientific constructions in both philosophies. Why has this similarity been left unexplored until rather recently when, it is our conviction, such an inquiry into the connection between Nietzsche and phenomenolog