Dead Letters to Nietzsche; or, the

Dead Letters to Nietzscheexamines how writing shapes subjectivity through the example of Nietzschers"s reception by his readers, including Stanley Rosen, David Farrell Krell, Georges Bataille, Laurence Lampert, Pierre Klossowski, and Sarah Kofman. More precisely, Joanne Faulkner finds that the personal identification that these readers form with Nietzschers"s texts is an enactment of the kind of identity formation described in Lacanian and Kleinian psychoanalysis. This investment of their subjectivity guides their understanding of Nietzschers"s project, the revaluation of values. Not only does this work make a provocative contribution to Nietzsche scholarship, but it also opens in an original way broader philosophical questions about how readers come to be invested in a philosophical project and how such investment alters their subjectivity.

Joanne Faulkner is an ARC postdoctoral fellow at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. She is coauthor of Under-standing Psychoanalysis and has published articles on Nietzsche and Freud.

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction: The Quickened and the Dead	p. 1
Ontology for Philologists: Nietzsche, Body, Subject	p. 11
"Be Your Self!": Nietzsche as Educator	p. 12
The Life of Thought: Nietzsche's Truth Perspectivism and the Will to Power	p. 15
Of Slaves and Masters: the Birth of Good and Evil	p. 23
Moments of Excess: the Making and Unmaking of the Subject	p. 30
Lacan, Desire, and the Originating Function of Loss	p. 35
The Word that Sees Me: The Nexus of Image and Sign	p. 37
The Nothing as the Reverse Side of Lacan's Mirror	p. 43
Nietzsche Is Dead, Long Live Nietzsche: In Memory of Paternal Ghosts	p. 57
"The Insiders": Nietzsche's Secret Teaching and the Invention of "the Philosopher of the Future"	p. 61
Finding One's Home in the Nothingness of Nietzsche's Text	p. 64
Nietzsche's Excessive Demand and the Question of the Adulterous Queen's Desire	p. 69
High and Low: the Hierarchical Structure of Nietzsche's Texts	p. 77
Inside and Outside: Nietzsche "Incorporated"; or, Who Incorporates Whom in the Act of Reading Nietzsche?	p. 85
The Father's Indulgence of the Prodigal Son: Ambiguity and the Limits of "the Position"	p. 90
The Contagion of Affect in Nietzsche: Klein, Krell, Bataille	p. 95
Doing Time with Melanie Klein: Renouncing "the Bad Breast," Mourning the Loss of "the Good Breast"	p. 96
"Motivating this Writing ... Is a Fear of Going Crazy": How Klein Might Read Georges Bataille Sur Nietzsche	p. 103
David Farrell Krell's "Novel" Approach to Reading Nietzsche	p. 111
Family Romances and Textual Encounters: Sarah Kofman Reading Nietzsche	p. 124
Reading Nietzsche I: Explosions	p. 127
Autobiography and Autothanography: Killing with Words in Rue Ordener, Rue Labat	p. 131
Reading Nietzsche II: Le Mépris des Juifs-Nietzsche, Les Juifs, L'Anti-Semitisme	p. 141
The Vision, the Riddle, and the Vicious Circle: Pierre Klossowski's Reading of Nietzsche's Sick Body	p. 149
On the Continuity and Disjunction between the Body and Language	p. 151
Exquisite Delirium: The Thought of Eternal Return	p. 156
The Conspiracy of Philosopher-Villains: Nietzsche-Klossowski-Sade	p. 168
From Cannibalism to Voodoo: The Creation and Control of the Subject of Nietzsche's Writing	p. 176
Notes	p. 187
Bibliography	p. 200
Index	p. 207
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