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27A warning that politics has a particular validity, but that this validity is challenged by much that is characteristic of modernity. It demonstrates that humans are tempted to move away from politics, and outlines the costs and benefits of retaining the political as a realm of human activity.
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163Philosophy of the Morning: Nietzsche and the Politics of TransfigurationJournal of Nietzsche Studies 39 (1): 51-65. 2010.ABSTRACT Nietzsche’s life project remains constant throughout his life: it is the project of transformation or transfiguration. He formulates this as the necessity of dealing with the way that one’s past (be it that of an individual, or a society, or the species) shapes one’s present. The paradigm for this transformation is first to be found in The Birth of Tragedy, but it reappears in various guises in all of his work. I argue that Nietzsche’s writing is itself designed so as to make possible s…Read more
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32Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Politics of the Ordinary (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2002.In this book, Rousseau is understood as a theorist of the common person. For Strong, Rousseau resonates with Kant, Hegel, and Marx, but he is more modern like Emerson, Nietzsche, Eittegenstein, and Heidegger. Rousseau's democratic individual is an ordinary self, paradoxically multiple and not singular. In the course of exploring this contention, Strong examines Rousseau's fear of authorship , his understanding of the human, his attempt to overcome the scandal that relativism posed for politics, …Read more
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60When Is a Text Not a Pretext? A Rejoinder to Victoria SilverCritical Inquiry 20 (1): 172-178. 1993.
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52Aesthetic authority and tradition: Nietzsche and the GreeksHistory of European Ideas 11 (1-6): 989-1007. 1989.This is an extended revision of a previous paper. It was given as a plenary paper at the History of Ideas conference in Amsterdam, September 1988. It will also appear in a revised version as Chapter II in a book on Aesthetics and Politics
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121Psychoanalysis as a VocationPolitical Theory 12 (1): 51-79. 1984.The new development for our time cannot be political, for politics is the relationship between the community and the representative individual. But in out time, the individual is becoming far too reflective to be satisfied with being merely represented. Søren Kierkegaard, Journals, 1847.
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68Nietzsche (review)Philosophical Review 106 (2): 296-298. 1996.Peter Berkowitz’s book is about the “moral intention that gives birth to and governs Nietzsche’s thought”. Bracing his book by an introduction and conclusion, he divides it into two parts. The first comprises individual chapters on what Berkowitz calls Nietzsche’s “histories.” These are on the ethics of history, the ethics of art, the ethics of morality and the ethics of religion.
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112In Defense of Rhetoric: Or How Hard It Is to Take a Writer SeriouslyPolitical Theory 41 (4): 507-532. 2013.Interpretations of Nietzsche, particularly about politics, cover an exceptionally wide range. Additionally, Nietzsche is often said to commit “rhetorical excesses.” I argue and show that Nietzsche consciously crafted his published works to allow this range of interpretations, that he did this for critical purposes, and that his so-called rhetoric is there to serve this purpose.
Areas of Interest
| Aesthetics |
| 19th Century Philosophy |
| 20th Century Philosophy |
| 17th/18th Century Philosophy |