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1Nietzsche and the impossibility of nihilismIn Jeffrey Metzger (ed.), Nietzsche, Nihilism and the Philosophy of the Future, Continuum. 2009.
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20Life Cycles beyond the Human: Biomass and Biorhythms in HeraclitusClassical Antiquity 43 (1): 50-96. 2024.All parts of Heraclitus’ cosmos are simultaneously living and dying. Its constituent stuffs (“biomasses”) cycle endlessly through physical changes in sweeping patterns (“biorhythms”) that are reflected in the dynamic rhythms of Heraclitus’ own thought and language. These natural processes are best examined at a more-than-human level that exceeds individuation, stable identity, rational comprehension, and linguistic capture. B62 (“mortals immortals”), one of Heraclitus’ most perplexing fragments,…Read more
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4Nietzsche, Homer, and the Classical TraditionIn Paul Bishop (ed.), Nietzsche and antiquity: his reaction and response to the classical tradition, Camden House. pp. 6-26. 2004.
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7Nietzsche and “The Problem of Socrates”In Sara Ahbel-Rappe & Rachana Kamtekar (eds.), A Companion to Socrates, Wiley-blackwell. 2006.This chapter contains sections titled: A Divided Socrates: Ambiguity or Ambivalence? Socratic Constructions Socratic Voices Thematizations.
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12Nietzsche's Theory of the Will to PowerIn Keith Ansell Pearson (ed.), A Companion to Nietzsche, Blackwell. 2006-01-01.This chapter contains sections titled: “Claims to Power” The Rhetoric of the Will to Power “The world viewed from inside”: Nietzsche's Later Atomism “The Logic of Feeling”
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5Unconscious Agency in NietzscheIn Mazzino Montinari, Wolfgang Müller-Lauter, Heinz Wenzel, Günter Abel & Werner Stegmaier (eds.), 1998, De Gruyter. pp. 153-195. 1999.
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182.6 Why Nietzsche Opposes the Creation of ValuesNietzsche Studien 44 (1). 2015.Name der Zeitschrift: Nietzsche-Studien Jahrgang: 44 Heft: 1 Seiten: 133-135
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19Binder, Korenjak, Noack Epitaphien. Tod, Totenrede, Rhetorik. Auswahl, Übersetzung und Kommentar. . Pp. x + 358. Rahden/Westf.: Verlag Marie Leidorf, 2007. Paper, €39.80. ISBN: 978-83-86757-182-1 (review)The Classical Review 60 (1): 306-307. 2010.
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7Birth of the Symbol. Ancient Readers at the Limits of their Texts (review)The Classical Review 57 (1): 50-52. 2007.
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162.On the Relationship of Art History and Art Theory': Translators' IntroductionOn the Relationship of Art History and Art Theory': Translators' Introduction (pp. 33-42) (review)Critical Inquiry 35 (1): 43-71. 2008.
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Is the sublime an aesthetic value?In I. Sluiter & Ralph Mark Rosen (eds.), Aesthetic value in classical antiquity, Brill. 2012.
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10How Ideal Is the Ancient Self?In Jure Simoniti & Gregor Kroupa (eds.), Ideas and Idealism in Philosophy, De Gruyter. pp. 1-26. 2023.
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13Living on the EdgeClassical Antiquity 39 (2): 225-283. 2020.Roman Stoicism is typically read as a therapeutic philosophy that is centered around the care of the self and presented in the form of a self-help manual. Closer examination reveals a less reassuring and more challenging side to the school’s teachings, one that provokes ethical reflection at the limits of the self’s intactness and coherence. The self is less an object of inquiry than the by-product of a complex set of experiences in the face of nature and society and across any number of flashpo…Read more
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13The Poetics of Phantasia: Imagination in Ancient Aesthetics, by Anne Sheppard: London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2014, pp. ix + 122, £65 (review)Australasian Journal of Philosophy 93 (2): 412-413. 2015.
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7Constructions of the Classical Body (edited book)University of Michigan Press,. 1999.Distinguished international scholars examine the neglected issue of the body and its status in classical antiquity.
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25Time for Foucault? Reflections on the Roman Self form Seneca to AugustineFoucault Studies 22 113-133. 2017.The essay approaches the idea of the self as this was most often formulated in antiquity from Heraclitus to Augustine—not as the object of self-fashioning and self-care, but as an irresolvable problem that was a productive if disconcerting source of inquiry. The self is less cultivated than it is “unbounded,” less wedded to regimes of truth and discovery than it is exposed, precariously, to crises of identity and coherence in the face of a constantly changing and unfathomable world. The self on …Read more
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27“Don't Quote Me on That!”: Wilamowitz Contra Nietzsche in 1872 and 1873Journal of Nietzsche Studies 42 (1): 73-99. 2011.ABSTRACT This article examines an oddity that has gone unnoticed since Nietzsche first pointed it out to his friend and confidant Erwin Rohde in 1872—namely, that Wilamowitz, in his attack on The Birth of Tragedy, systematically misquotes Nietzsche. A large number of the quotations from The Birth of Tragedy by Wilamowitz in both installments of Zukunftsphilologie! are pseudo-quotations—whether they are off by a word or more or whether they are a collage of phrases drawn freely from Nietzsche's v…Read more
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42The seductions of GorgiasClassical Antiquity 12 (2): 267-299. 1993.From the older handbooks to the more recent scholarly literature, Gorgias's professions about his art are taken literally at their word: conjured up in all of these accounts is the image of a hearer irresistibly overwhelmed by Gorgias's apagogic and psychagogic persuasions. Gorgias's own description of his art, in effect, replaces our description of it. "His proofs... give the impression of ineluctability" . "Thus logos is almost an independent external power which forces the hearer to do its wi…Read more
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37Nietzsche and the Philology of the FutureStanford University Press. 2000.Drawing on Nietzsche's prolific early notebooks and correspondence, this book challenges the polarized picture of Nietzsche as a philosopher who abandoned classical philology.
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49The Origins of Aesthetic Thought in Ancient Greece: Matter, Sensation, and ExperienceCambridge University Press. 2010.This is the first modern attempt to put aesthetics back on the map in classical studies. James I. Porter traces the origins of aesthetic thought and inquiry in their broadest manifestations as they evolved from before Homer down to the fourth century and then into later antiquity, with an emphasis on Greece in its earlier phases. Greek aesthetics, he argues, originated in an attention to the senses and to matter as opposed to the formalism and idealism that were enshrined by Plato and Aristotle,…Read more
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24Past times G. cajani, D. Lanza (edd.): L'antico degli antichi . Pp. 181, ills. Rome: Palumbo, 2001. Paper, €15.49. Isbn: 88-8020-298- (review)The Classical Review 53 (02): 470-. 2003.
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33Is Art Modern? Kristeller's ‘Modern System of the Arts’ Reconsidered: ArticlesBritish Journal of Aesthetics 49 (1): 1-24. 2009.Kristeller's article ‘The Modern System of the Arts: A Study in the History of Aesthetics’ is a classic statement of the view, now widely adopted but rarely examined, that aesthetics became possible only in the eighteenth-century with the emergence of the fine arts. I wish to contest this view, for three reasons. Firstly, Kristeller's historical account can be questioned; alternative and equally plausible accounts are available. Secondly, ‘the modern system of the arts’ appears to have been neit…Read more
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17Untimely Meditations: Nietzsche's Zeitatomistik in ContextJournal of Nietzsche Studies 20 58-81. 2000.
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48The invention of dionysus and the platonic midwife: Nietzsche'sJournal of the History of Philosophy 33 (3): 467-497. 1995.
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Nietzsche's genealogy as performative critiqueIn Karin de Boer & R. Sonderegger (eds.), Conceptions of Critique in Modern and Contemporary Philosophy, Palgrave Macmillan. 2011.
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Irvine, California, United States of America
Areas of Interest
Aesthetics |
European Philosophy |