A Nietzschean Bestiary Becoming Animal Beyond

Nietzsche's use of metaphor has been widely noted but rarely focused to explore specific images in great detail. A Nietzschean Bestiary gathers essays devoted to the most notorious and celebrated beasts in Nietzsche's work. The essays illustrate Nietzsche's ample use of animal imagery, and link it to the dual philosophical purposes of recovering and revivifying human animality, which plays a significant role in his call for de-deifying nature. Visit our website for sample chapters!

Christa Davis Acampora is professor of philosophy at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Ralph R. Acampora is assistant professor of philosophy at Hofstra University.

Abbreviations

xiii

Translations

xv

Acknowledgments

xix

Introduction

xxi

Christa Davis Acampora and Ralph R. Acampora

Nietzsche's Feral Philosophy: Thinking through an Animal Imaginary

1

(16)

Ralph R. Acampora

Part I: On "Lowly" Origins

Ape

Who Is Zarathustra's Ape?

Peter S. Groff

17

(15)

Camel

A Sketch (Riß) of the Camel in Zarathustra

Charles S. Taylor

32

(10)

Polyp

Polyp Man

Brian Domino

42

(11)

Part II: Zarathustra's Animals

Dog

Dogs, Domestication, and the Ego

Gary Shapiro

53

(8)

Spider

Arachnophobe or Arachnophile? Nietzsche and His Spiders

Alan D. Schrift

61

(10)

Snake

The Eternal-Serpentine

Nickolas Pappas

71

(12)

Bird

The Halcyon Tone as Birdsong

Gary Shapiro

83

(6)

Cow

"Even Better than a Cow, O Zarathustra!"

Tracey Stark

89

(11)

Ass

Nietzsche and the Mystery of the Ass

Kathleen Marie Higgins

100

(21)

Part III: Beasts of Prey

Lion

Zarathustra's Laughing Lions

Paul S. Loeb

121

(19)

Blond Beast

Nietzsche's "Blond Beast": On the Recuperation of a Nietzschean Metaphor

Gerd Schank

140

(16)

Beasts of Prey

How We Became What We Are: Tracking the "Beasts of Prey"

Daniel W. Conway

156

(25)

Part IV: Human Animals (Unter, Halb, and Uber)

Woman

Women as Predatory Animals, or Why Nietzsche Philosophized with a Whip

Thomas H. Brobjer

181

(12)

Woman

Circe's Truth: On the Way to Animals and Women

Jennifer Ham

193

(18)

Satyr

Human-Animalny in Nietzsche

Lawrence J. Hatab

211

(9)

Overhuman

The Overhuman Animal

Vanessa Lemm

220

(23)

Part V: Animal Nietzsche

Mole

On Nietzsche's Moles

Debra B. Bergoffen

243

(8)

Cat

The Cat at Play: Nietzsche's Feline Styles

Martha Kendal Woodruff

251

(13)

Lizard

Nietzsche's göttliche Eidechsen: "Divine Lizards," "Greene Lyons," and Music

Babette E. Babich

264

(21)

Afterword

Paws, Claws, Jaws, and Such: Interpretation and Metaphoric Modalities

Christa Davis Acampora

285

(16)

Bibliographic Essay

Traces of the Beast: Becoming Nietzsche, Becoming Animal, and the Figure of the Transhuman

Jami Weinstein

301

Sources for the Metamorphoses: The Ages of Man and the Three Metamorphoses of the Spirit

Richard Perkins

319

(10)

Index to Animals in Nietzsche's Corpus

Brian Crowley

329

(32)

General Index

361

(6)

About the Contributors

367

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