Sexual difference and the conduct of critique (Nietzsche and Irigaray)

For Nietzsche, a phenomenon, a belief, a mode of knowledge, or of subjectivity, confronts us with the possibility of creating, rather than presupposing, the criteria for its evaluation. In his Untimely Meditations, he widened the parameters of criticizability in just this way, proposing that histor...

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Main Author: Penelope Deutscher
Format: Article
Language:Catalan
Published: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 2022-04-01
Series:Enrahonar: Quaderns de Filosofia
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Online Access:https://revistes.uab.cat/enrahonar/article/view/1387
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Summary:For Nietzsche, a phenomenon, a belief, a mode of knowledge, or of subjectivity, confronts us with the possibility of creating, rather than presupposing, the criteria for its evaluation. In his Untimely Meditations, he widened the parameters of criticizability in just this way, proposing that history might be evaluated from the criterion of whether it is good or bad for life. Nietzsche provokes us to ask what the right question is to bring to history. Stepping back to formulate a response might allow us to appreciate the difference between interrogating the accuracy of historical accounts and assessing their effects.
ISSN:0211-402X
2014-881X