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7Nietzsche and Friendship. By WillowVerkerk, London: Bloomsbury Academic. 2019. pp. x + 189. £100 (hbk). ISBN 10/13: 978‐1‐3500‐47341‐1; £31.99 (pbk). ISBN 10/13: 978‐1‐3501‐7717‐8 (review)European Journal of Philosophy 31 (3): 853-856. 2023.European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
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11Comments on Richard Rorty: Outgrowing modern nihilism by Tracy LlaneraPhilosophical Forum 53 (3): 145-149. 2022.The Philosophical Forum, EarlyView.
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35The Nihilism of the Oppressed: Hedwig Dohm's Feminist Critique of Nietzschean NihilismJournal of Nietzsche Studies 52 (2): 209-233. 2021.Hedwig Dohm is a radical German feminist whose work critically engages Nietzsche's writings. In this article, I develop and draw out the implications of a Dohmian critique of Nietzschean nihilism by looking closely at Dohm's novella Become Who You Are!. In this novella, Dohm provides an extended case study of two distinct types of Nietzschean nihilism common to women living in Germany in the late nineteenth century. And Dohm's writings illuminate a double standard in Nietzsche's theory of nihili…Read more
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68The Wisdom of Silenus: Suffering in The Birth of TragedyJournal of Nietzsche Studies 49 (2): 174-193. 2018.This article discusses Nietzsche's response in The Birth of Tragedy to what he calls the wisdom of Silenus, that “the very best thing is utterly beyond your reach: not to have been born, not to be, to be nothing. However, the second best thing for you is to die soon.” I begin by analyzing the view that Silenus expresses a proto-Schopenhauerian truth about the world as “Will.” I then review Bernard Reginster's interpretation of the wisdom of Silenus as an early form of Nietzschean nihilism. As an…Read more
Katie Brennan
Salve Regina University
Western University of Ontario
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Western University of OntarioPost-doctoral Fellow
Areas of Specialization
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19th Century German Philosophy |
Friedrich Nietzsche |
Feminist Philosophy |
Aesthetics |
Philosophy of Literature |
Value Theory |