Autoaesthetics : strategies of the self after Nietzsche / Stephen Barker
1992, First Edition. Atlantic Highlands, N.J. : Humanities Press. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #430663
ISBN: 039103748X
Physical description; viii, 384 pages ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 302-378) and index. Contents; Pt. 1. Dionysus and the Chimerical Self -- 1. Nietzsche's Trinity of Terms and Mine -- 2. La Metaphysique du soi: Julien Sorel's Echoing Voices -- Pt. 2. Text and the Framework of Suffering -- 3. The Mirror and the Dagger: Nietzsche and the Danger of Art -- 4. Jude the Camera Obscura -- Pt. 3. Spirituality, Irony, and the Autoaesthetic Self -- 5. Zarathustra as the Shadow of the Shadow: Philosophy/Poetry/Power -- 6. From Old Gold to I.O.U.s: Ike McCaslin's Debased Genealogical Coin -- Pt. 4. Strategic Empowering -- 7. Nietzsche beyond Good and Evil: Metaphor as Power -- 8. The Je me manque of John Fowles' Daniel Martin -- Pt. 5. Dialectical Graphtings: Toward a Paramodern Autoaesthetic -- 9. Opening the Dialectics of Writing: Heraclitus/Nietzsche -- 10. Dialectics of the Unwritten Self: Nietzsche/Joyce/(Mallarme/)Beckett. A Throw of the Dice Will Never Abolish Chance: Stephane Mallarme. Subjects; Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm 1844-1900. Nietzsche, Friedrich 1844-1900. Nietzsche, Friedrich. 1800-1899. Self (Philosophy) History 19th century. Aesthetics, Modern 19th century. Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm 1844-1900 Aesthetics. Aesthetics, Modern. Self (Philosophy).
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