London Platypus Winter Reading Group: Nietzsche (2019-2020)

Saturdays

5pm

28A Wilberforce Road, London, N4 2SW, United Kingdom (closest tube: Finsbury Park).

• required + recommended

Winter preliminary reading

• Karl Korsch, “Marxism and philosophy” (1923)

Week 1. Nietzsche I: Life in history | Dec. 28, 2019

• Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Use and Abuse of History for Life (1874) [translator's introduction by Peter Preuss]

• epigraphs on modern history and freedom by Louis Menand (on Marx and Engels), Karl Marx, on "becoming" (from the Grundrisse, 1857–58), and Peter Preuss (on history)

+ Being and becoming (freedom in transformation) chart of terms

+ "Revolution without Marx? Rousseau and his followers for the Left" panel at Left Forum, 6/9/13

+ Cutrone, Beyond history? Nietzsche, Benjamin and Adorno

+ Nietzsche on history chart of terms

Week 2. Nietzsche II: Asceticism of moderns | Jan. 4, 2020

• Nietzsche, selection from On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense (1873)

• Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals: A Polemic (1887)

+ Human, All Too Human: Nietzsche: Beyond Good and Evil (1999)

Week 3. Nietzsche III: Assorted articles | Jan. 11, 2020

• Frankfurt School: Discussion of a Paper by Ludwig Marcuse on the Relationship of Need and Culture in Nietzsche (July 14, 1942) and its Introduction by Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School’s ‘Nietzschean Moment’

• Cutrone, Ends of Philosophy

• Cutrone, The future of socialism: What kind of illness is capitalism?

• Sunit Singh, Nietzsche’s untimeliness

• Ethan Linehan, On the use and abuse of Nietzsche for the Left