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

Friedrich Nietzsche, by Edvard Munch

Saturdays

5pm

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

ā€¢ required + recommended


Winter preliminary reading

ā€¢ Karl Korschā€œMarxism and philosophyā€ (1923)


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

ā€¢ Friedrich NietzscheOn the Use and Abuse of History for Life (1874) [translator's introduction by Peter Preuss]

ā€¢ epigraphs on modern history and freedom by Louis Menand (on Marx and Engels), Karl Marxon "becoming" (from the Grundrisse, 1857ā€“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

ā€¢ Nietzscheselection from On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense (1873)

ā€¢ NietzscheOn 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

ā€¢ 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 Schoolā€™s ā€˜Nietzschean Momentā€™

ā€¢ Cutrone, Ends of Philosophy

ā€¢ Cutrone, The future of socialism: What kind of illness is capitalism?

ā€¢ Sunit Singh, Nietzscheā€™s untimeliness

ā€¢ Ethan Linehan, On the use and abuse of Nietzsche for the Left