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Nietzsche on Gender: Beyond Man and Woman
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Paperback. This book offers a reinterpretation of Nietzsche's ideas on sex, gender, and sexuality. Nietzsche on Gender: Beyond Man and Woman argues that a closer reading of his texts, letters and notes shows that he was deliberately dismantling dualistic thinking in general. Num Pages: 229 pages. BIC Classification: HPC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 16. Weight in Grams: 388.
Although Nietzsche has been considered by some critics to be a misogynist for his treatment of woman, women, and the feminine, Frances Nesbitt Oppel offers a radical reinterpretation of the philosopher's ideas on sex, gender, and sexuality. In Nietzsche on Gender: Beyond Man and Woman, she argues that a closer reading of Nietzsche's texts and rhetorical style (especially his use of metaphor and irony), as well as his letters and notes, shows that he was strategically and deliberately dismantling dualistic thinking in general, not only the logical hierarchies of Western thought (God/human, heaven/earth, mind/body, reason/emotion, ethos/pathos) but also the assumed ... Read more
Although Nietzsche has been considered by some critics to be a misogynist for his treatment of woman, women, and the feminine, Frances Nesbitt Oppel offers a radical reinterpretation of the philosopher's ideas on sex, gender, and sexuality. In Nietzsche on Gender: Beyond Man and Woman, she argues that a closer reading of Nietzsche's texts and rhetorical style (especially his use of metaphor and irony), as well as his letters and notes, shows that he was strategically and deliberately dismantling dualistic thinking in general, not only the logical hierarchies of Western thought (God/human, heaven/earth, mind/body, reason/emotion, ethos/pathos) but also the assumed ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
229
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813923208
SKU
V9780813923208
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About Unknown
Frances Nesbitt Oppel is Lecturer in the School of Arts, Media, and Cultural Studies at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia, for six months of each year. For the other six, she teaches and writes in New York City. She is the author of Mask and Tragedy: Yeats and Nietzsche, 1902-10 (Virginia).
Reviews for Nietzsche on Gender: Beyond Man and Woman
Oppel's well-researched, provocatively argued, and clearly written work brings the question of woman to the center of Nietzsche's thought to challenge misogynist readings of Nietzsche. Oppel argues that Nietzsche's affirmation of life and testament to a morality beyond good and evil is simultaneously and necessarily an affirmation of a bisexual feminine that destroys the patriarchal category of woman. A must-read ... Read more