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    Editorial
    Political Theory 19 (1): 5-6. 1991.
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    A 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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    Nietzsche's New Seas: Explorations in Philosophy, Aesthetics, and Politics (edited book)
    with Michael Allen Gillespie
    University Of Chicago Press. 1991.
    _Nietzsche's New Seas_ makes available for the first time in English a representative sample of the best recent Nietzsche scholarship from Germany, France, and the United States. Michael Allen Gillespie and Tracy B. Strong have brought together scholars from a variety of disciplines—philosophy, history, literary criticism, and musicology—and from schools of thought that differ both methodologically and ideologically. The contributors—Karsten Harries, Robert Pippin, Eugen Fink, Hans-Georg Gadamer…Read more
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    Philosophy of the Morning: Nietzsche and the Politics of Transfiguration
    Journal 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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    Nietzsche and the Song in the Self
    New Nietzsche Studies 1 (1-2): 1-14. 1996.
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    Jean-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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    When Is a Text Not a Pretext? A Rejoinder to Victoria Silver
    Critical Inquiry 20 (1): 172-178. 1993.
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    Aesthetic authority and tradition: Nietzsche and the Greeks
    History 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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    Psychoanalysis as a Vocation
    Political 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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    Nietzsche (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.