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john f. whitmire, jr. Western Carolina University in his massive study of Nietzsche's psychological theory and anthropology, Graham Parkes argues that sufficient attention has not been paid to Nietzsche's theory of the drives and affects (444)--though he admits Pierre Klossowski, Richard Schacht, and John Richardson as notable exceptions. It is perhaps difficult to understand this claim, especially in light of the work on the "new Nietzsche," but it might make more sense if considered in the context of a scholarly tradition in which Nietzsche's comments on will to power are understood as voluntaristic, existential--even personalistic?--statements of heroic human individuals forging their own identities or personal narratives in face of the tragic experience of the world, a common enough way of interpreting Nietzsche in the wake of Walter Kaufmann, Alexander Nehamas, and Richard Rorty. However, there are numerous other accounts of an antipersonalist Nietzsche that understand his emphasis on the drives as that which is of genuinely fundamental importance in his thought. Indeed, this sort of reading has perhaps been formative for the entire twentieth century psychoanalytic tradition, if David Allison is correct in arguing that Freud was far more familiar with Nietzsche's writings than he would willingly admit.
The Pluralist – University of Illinois Press
Published: Mar 9, 2009
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