Nietzsche: Writing, Reading, Thinking, Feeling and Self-Fashioning

Alan Rosenberg: Nietzsche: Writing, Reading, Thinking, Feeling and Self-Fashioning

Friedrich Nietzsche’s compelling diagnosis of the cultural crisis of the modern world both opened up the prospect of new modes for the fashioning of a self, and presents us with enormous interpretive challenges. One such challenge concerns the very way in which Nietzsche writes his texts, his styles and his varied rhetorical devices and tropes, his use of poems and aphorisms, all of which serve as so many fishhooks to seduce his readers. Nietzsche’s styles, then, are connected to an art of exegesis, a concern with how to read him. Writing and reading for Nietzsche have as their aim to stimulate the feelings, the affects, of his readers, to provoke them into thinking in new and unforeseen ways, linked to his vision of the shaping of a self “beyond good and evil.” To those challenges, we would add the additional challenge posed to us to invent new ways to write about Nietzsche.

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