A Nietzschean bestiary : becoming animal beyond docile and brutal

A Nietzschean bestiary : becoming animal beyond docile and brutal /

Nietzsche's use of metaphor has been widely noted but rarely focused to explore specific images in great detail. A Nietzschean Bestiary gathers essays devoted to the most notorious and celebrated beasts in Nietzsche's work. The essays illustrate Nietzsche's ample use of animal imagery...

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Other Authors: Acampora, Christa Davis, 1967- (Editor), Acampora, Ralph R., 1965- (Editor), Babbich, Babette, Bergoffen, Debra, Brobjer, Thomas H., Conway, Daniel, Crowley, Brian, Domino, Brian, Groff, Peter, Ham, Jennifer, Hatab, Lawrence, Higgins, Kathleen Marie, Lemm, Vanessa, Loeb, Paul S., Pappas, Nickolas, Perkins, Richard, Schank, Gerd, Schrift, Alan D., Shapiro, Gary, Stark, Tracey, Taylor, C. S. (Charles S.), Weinstein, Jami, Woodruff, Martha Kendal
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2003
Subjects:
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, > 1844-1900.
Animals (Philosophy)
Metaphor.
Metaphor
metaphor.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Nietzsche's feral philosophy : thinking through an animal imaginary / Ralph R. Acampora
  • Part I: On 'lowly" origins. Ape : Who is Zarathustra's ape? / Peter S. Groff ; Camel : A sketch (Riß) if the camel in Zarathustra / Charles S. Taylor ; Polyp : Polyp man / Brian Domino
  • Part II: Zarathustra's animals. Dog : Dogs, domestication, and the ego / Gary Shapiro ; Spider : Arachnophobe or arachnophile? Nietzsche and his spiders / Alan D. Schrift ; Snake : The eternal-serpentine / Nicholas Pappas ; Bird : The halcyon tone as birdsong / Gary Shapiro ; Cow : "Even better than a cow, O Zarathustra!" / Tracey Stark ; Ass : Nietzsche and the mystery of the ass / Kathleen Marie Higgins
  • Part III: Beasts of prey. Lion : Zarathustra's laughing lions / Paul S. Loeb ; Blond beast : Nietzsche's "Blond beast" : on the recuperation of a Nietzschean metaphor / Gerd Schank ; Beasts of prey : How we became what we are : tracking the "Beasts of prey" / Daniel W. Conway
  • Part IV: Human animals (unter, halb, and über). Woman : Women as predatory animals, or Why Nietzsche philosophized with a whip / Thomas H. Brobjer ; Woman : Circe's truth : on the way to animals and women / Jennifer Ham ; Satyr : Human-animality in Nietzsche / Lawrence J. Hatab ; Overhuman : The overhuman animal / Vanessa Lemm
  • Part V: Animal Nietzsche. Mole : On Nietzsche's moles / Debra B. Bergoffen ; Cat : The cat at play : Nietzsche's feline styles / Martha Kendal Woodruff ; Lizard : Nietzsche's göttliche Eidechsen : "Divine lizards," "Greene Lyons," and music / Babette E. Babich
  • Afterword : Paws, claws, jaws, and such : interpretation and metaphoric modalities / Christa David Acampora
  • Bibliographic essay : Traces of the beast : becoming Nietzsche, becoming animal, and the figure of the transhuman / Jami Weinstein
  • Sources for the Metamorphoses : the ages of man and the three Metamorphoses of the spirit / Richard Perkins
  • Into to animals in Nietzsche's corpus / Brian Crowley.

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