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Nietzsche's Animal Philosophy: Culture, Politics, and the Animality of the Human Being (review)

Nietzsche's Animal Philosophy: Culture, Politics, and the Animality of the Human Being (review) Danto finds renewed urgency for this project in (what was then) the recent news of the Pearl City massacre, an atrocity committed by teenagers inspired by their reading of Nietzsche. Danto asserts that Nietzsche must be interpreted in such a way that he comes out defanged, and he outlines the twofold strategy he used in Nietzsche as Philosopher "to circle the enemy." On the one hand, Danto writes, he sought to bring Nietzsche into conversation with the most traditional questions and figures of the Western tradition and so re-create him as an armchair philosopher in their mold. (Presumably, this would make him boring to future potential teenage mass murderers, who will have to go elsewhere for inspiration.) And on the other hand, Danto sought to turn Nietzsche's hypercritical challenges to other forms of meaning-making back on himself, in order then to leave his views as tattered as he left those of the tradition. Danto recognizes, now, that a third strategy might do the same trick: treat Nietzsche's works as literary. "Poetry," he cites Auden as saying, "makes nothing happen." He now recognizes that Nietzsche's works do function as literary wholes, not as random collections of aphorisms, and opines http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Journal of Nietzsche Studies Penn State University Press

Nietzsche's Animal Philosophy: Culture, Politics, and the Animality of the Human Being (review)

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Danto finds renewed urgency for this project in (what was then) the recent news of the Pearl City massacre, an atrocity committed by teenagers inspired by their reading of Nietzsche. Danto asserts that Nietzsche must be interpreted in such a way that he comes out defanged, and he outlines the twofold strategy he used in Nietzsche as Philosopher "to circle the enemy." On the one hand, Danto writes, he sought to bring Nietzsche into conversation with the most traditional questions and figures of the Western tradition and so re-create him as an armchair philosopher in their mold. (Presumably, this would make him boring to future potential teenage mass murderers, who will have to go elsewhere for inspiration.) And on the other hand, Danto sought to turn Nietzsche's hypercritical challenges to other forms of meaning-making back on himself, in order then to leave his views as tattered as he left those of the tradition. Danto recognizes, now, that a third strategy might do the same trick: treat Nietzsche's works as literary. "Poetry," he cites Auden as saying, "makes nothing happen." He now recognizes that Nietzsche's works do function as literary wholes, not as random collections of aphorisms, and opines

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The Journal of Nietzsche Studies – Penn State University Press

Published: Dec 4, 2010

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