London Platypus Winter Reading Group: Nietzsche (2019-2020)
Saturdays
5pm
28A Wilberforce Road, London, N4 2SW, United Kingdom (closest tube: Finsbury Park).
ā¢ required + recommended
Winter preliminary reading
ā¢ Karl Korsch, āMarxism and philosophyā (1923)
Week 1. Nietzsche I: Life in history | Dec. 28, 2019
ā¢ Friedrich Nietzsche, On 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 Marx, on "becoming" (from the Grundrisse, 1857ā58), 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¢ Nietzsche, selection from On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense (1873)
ā¢ 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
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 Schoolās āNietzschean Momentā
ā¢ Cutrone, Ends of Philosophy
ā¢ Cutrone, The future of socialism: What kind of illness is capitalism?
ā¢ Sunit Singh, Nietzscheās untimeliness
ā¢ Ethan Linehan, On the use and abuse of Nietzsche for the Left