Nietzsche and Suffered Social Histories Genealogy and Convalescence [Hardcover]

This book presents a reading of Nietzsche as a thinker of the suffered social histories of subjectivity.  It suggests that Nietzsches concept of genealogy needs the concept of convalescence to be coherent. Genealogy is a form of reflection that traces the suffered scenes of which that reflection is symptomatic, whereas convalescence is the ordeal of reflections coming to bear its limits within scenes of embodied suffering.  This theme is developed by appeals to Freuds notion of mourning and the object relations theories of Melanie Klein and D.W. Winnicott, which insist on the primacy of suffered relationality in the genesis of subjectivity.  Moreover, Adornos notion of negative dialectics and its emphasis on the primacy of the object are suggested as an alternative context within which to read Nietzsches writing, in contrast with dominant modes of criticism.  The discussion will appeal to anyone interested in Nietzsche, critical theory and the relationship between psychoanalysis and philosophy.

 

 

Table of Contents

 

 

Introduction

Errors, Lies and the Suffered Social Histories of Subjectivity

Scenes of Subjectivity: Nietzsche with Marx and Freud

Ricoeur, Kofman, Foucault

 

Chapter One: Convalescence, Mourning, and Sociality

Convalescence and Mourning

Zarathustras Convalescence

Abstraction in Popular Readings of Nietzsche: Derrida and Deleuze

 

Chapter Two: Relationality, Trauma, and the Genealogy of the Subject

Relationality in the First Essay of On the Genealogy of Morality

Relationality in the Second Essay of On the Genealogy of Morality