Nietzsche

Intensive and extensive reading of Nietzsche and some of the reception that has made him so prominent in contemporary literary and cultural theory. Topics include Nietzsche's aesthetics, theory of history, the concept of the eternal return, European decadence, misogyny and anti-semitism. Texts will be selected from Nietzsche, Heidegger, Horkheimer and Adorno, Deleuze, Derrida, Irigaray, de Man, Kofman, Lacoue-Labarthe, Foucault, Hamacher, Ronell, etc.