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130Nietzsche, Foucalt and the Poltics of the Ascetic IdealIn Andrea Rehberg & Ashley Woodward (eds.), Nietzsche and the Politics of Difference, De Gruyter. pp. 289-309. 2022.While traces of a post-metaphysical political theory are to be found throughout his oeuvre, Nietzsche himself never explicitly elaborates any such comprehensive theory. Yet, this chapter argues, it is possible to discern a politics beyond ressentiment and the ascetic ideal, which must be both experimental and pluralist. Inspired by Nietzsche, Foucault thinks the political as a play of force relations immanent to a concrete strategic field, and thus as a multiplicity of power relations existing i…Read more
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177Nietzsche, Foucault and the Politics of the Ascetic IdealIn Andrea Rehberg & Ashley Woodward (eds.), Nietzsche and the Politics of Difference, De Gruyter. pp. 289-310. 2022.While traces of a post-metaphysical political theory are to be found throughout his oeuvre, Nietzsche himself never explicitly elaborates any such comprehensive theory. Yet, this chapter argues, it is possible to discern a politics beyond ressentiment and the ascetic ideal, which must be both experimental and pluralist. Inspired by Nietzsche, Foucault thinks the political as a play of force relations immanent to a concrete strategic field, and thus as a multiplicity of power relations existing i…Read more
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519Postmetaphysical Conundrums: The Problematic Return to Metaphysics in Horkheimer’s Critique of Instrumental ReasonNew German Critique 48 (3): 1-30. 2021.The role of metaphysics in critique stands as a defining issue for the Frankfurt School theorists. Max Horkheimer himself claims that metaphysics serves as an instrument of domination, leading him to develop an interdisciplinary mate- rialism as a postmetaphysical alternative. Critics such as Georg Lohmann con- tend, however, that Horkheimer’s critique of instrumental reason is aporetic insofar as it undermines all metaphysical claims while implicitly making them. Since Horkheimer narrowly equat…Read more
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7Colin Koopman, Genealogy as Critique: Foucault and the Problems of Modernity , ISBN: 978-0253006219 (review)Foucault Studies 17 264-267. 2014.
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258Nietzsche and Habermas on Wille zur Macht: From a Metaphysical to a Post-Metaphysical Interpretation of LifeIn Sigridur Thorgeirsdottir & Helmut Heit (eds.), Nietzsche Als Kritiker Und Denker der Transformation, De Gruyter. pp. 134-144. 2016.In this article, Shea aims to overturn Jürgen Habermas’s characterization of Nietzsche in The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity as a postmodern irrationalist. On Habermas’s account, Nietzsche employs Wille zur Macht both as a principle by which to invalidate the claims of metaphysics and as a primordial “other” to reason that unmasks reason as an expression of domination. If Habermas’s reading is correct, Nietzsche’s work is ultimately incoherent since it either lapses back into metaphysics o…Read more
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Areas of Specialization
Friedrich Nietzsche |
Michel Foucault |
Critical Theory |
Areas of Interest
20th Century Philosophy |
History of Western Philosophy |
Value Theory |