{"title":"Peter J Burgard","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"nietzsche-and-the-feminine-book-peter-j-burgard-9780813914954","title":"Nietzsche and the Feminine","description":"You are going to women? do not forget the whip! This admonition, from \"\"Thus Spoke Zarathustra\"\", may be the most notoriously misogynistic line in all literature and philosophy. It is also only one of the many denigrations of women in the work of the philosopher who has most influenced our century: Friedrich Nietasche. But while Freud's disturbing pronouncements on demininity have received sustained attention, studies of the place of the feminine in Nietzsche's work are still few and far between. This volume has brought together new studies by outstanding scholars in philosophy, feminism, comparative literature, and German studies, including Sarah Kofman, Luce Irigaray, Benjamin Bennett, Laurence Rickels, Susan Bernstein, and David Farrell Krell. It has been easy to label Nietzsche a misogynist and leave it at that, but to do so is to ignore the problem. For Nietzsche's statements about women are not invariably reprehensible; there are other less misogynistic and even sympathetic comments, and many of the reprehensible lines themselves occur in contexts that shed a rather different light on them. Nietzsche and the feminine, as Burgard demonstrates in his introduction, is a problem of great complexity, and it is this complexity that the contributors to the volume set into play. Addressing Nietzsche's work in its own context as well as in conjunction with the work of contemporary theorists (Cixous, Derrida, Kristeva, and others), their essays reveal the central importance of this aspect of his philosophy. Collectively, the essays disclose the irreducibly ambivalent position of the feminine in that philosophy and raise the question of whether Nietzsche's treatment of women amounts to the kind of essentialization of femininity that a phrase like \"\"the feminine\"\" suggests. By offering multiple perspectives on the perspective on the feminine of this philosopher of perspectivism, by refusing either to dismiss, ignore, or excuse his misogyny, \"\"Nietzsche and the Feminine\"\" provides an appropriate response to Nietzsche's excessive articulations of the feminine. This book should be of interest to scholars and students in women's studies, philosophy, literary theory, comparative literature, and German studies, as well as to any readers concerned with the backgrounds of twentieth-century culture.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":50468411474193,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50468413669649,"sku":"GOR006783661","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0813914957.jpg?v=1750850172"},{"product_id":"idioms-of-uncertainty-book-peter-j-burgard-9780271026213","title":"Idioms of Uncertainty","description":"Goethe's essays have been culled for their literary, aesthetic, and scientific content, by the textuality and their location at the nexus of genre and literary history have not received the critical attention they deserve. In Idioms of Uncertainty, Peter Burgard analyzes the rhetorical strategies, structure, and style of pivotal essays and relates them to the essay traditions as represented by Montaigne and Johnson. By formulating the critique of systematic philosophy inherent in the essays and by investigating their participation in the principal aesthetic dialogue of the age—the Laocoön debate, which spanned nearly half a century—Burgard situates them in the context of eighteenth-century critical discourse.  Furthermore, by disclosing the connection between the anti-systematic, dialogic impetus of Goethe's essayism and the theme of community in his literary works, Idioms of Uncertainty both draws out the broader social implications of the essay and shows how the analysis of Goethe's work in the genre can illuminate his entire oeuvre.  In the course of the study Burgard articulates a theory of the essay as a genre by drawing on twentieth-century theoretical perspectives for his exposition of Goethe's textual strategies: theories of the essay from Lukacs, Bense, and Adorno; the textual theories of Bakhtin, Kristeva, Barthes, and Derrida; and Rorty's notion of literary-philosophical conversation. Idioms of Uncertainty thus holds interest for those concerned with genre theory and literary theory in general; and through its challenging of clichés about German literature at the time it assumed international significance, the book will be useful not only for Goethe scholars but also for scholars of the eighteenth century across disciplines and national boundaries.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53181204529425,"sku":"NLS9780271026213","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":53578647830801,"sku":"NGR9780271026213","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780271026213.jpg?v=1772237061"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/collections\/author-books-by-peter-j-burgard.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}