“This Obscure and Enigmatic Concept”. Philosophy of Cruelty in Nietzsche, Freud, and Beyond
This essay traces Derrida’s interrogation of Nietzsche and Freud’s concept of cruelty and his attempt to think the beyond that this concept necessarily presupposes. On the one hand, it highlights the key traits of the Nietzschean and Freudian concept of cruelty, namely, its irreducibility to determi...
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Language: | English |
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Milano University Press
2018-07-01
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Series: | Itinera |
Online Access: | https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/itinera/article/view/10510 |