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Inside/Outside Nietzsche

Psychoanalytic Explorations

By: Eugene Victor Wolfenstein

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Inside/Outside Nietzsche

Psychoanalytic Explorations

By: Eugene Victor Wolfenstein

Friedrich Nietzsche is both subject and interlocutor in this innovative study. The book mirrors the psychoanalytic situation, mediating between the philosophical world that Nietzsche created for himself and the external world challenged by his philosophy.Eugene Victor Wolfenstein, a distinguished social theorist and practicing psychoanalyst, focuses on the opposition between the principles of psychoanalytic theory and Nietzsche's concepts of the will to power and perspectivism. Through critical engagement with these Nietzschean concepts, Wolfenstein brings them into the purview of psychoanalytic theory and practice.Using this revised version of psychoanalytic theory, Wolfenstein then conducts a psychobiography of Nietzsche's life. He contends that Nietzsche philosophized from within a transitional space between the maternal and paternal extremes of the male imaginary, a space in which gender identity is notably unstable, and sublimity consorts with the most abject misery. This psychic location is the impetus for Nietzsche's conceptions of eternal return and the feminine.Finally, Wolfenstein explores Nietzsche's genealogy of morals from a psychoanalytic perspective and in the light of Nietzsche's psychobiography. He concludes that Nietzsche's revaluation of values leaves us painfully short on both love and compassion. The whole book is also framed by a critical engagement with Michel Foucault's problematics of power/knowledge.

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1501719572

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A Gift of the Spirit

Reading "The Souls of Black Folk"

By: Eugene Victor Wolfenstein

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A Gift of the Spirit

Reading "The Souls of Black Folk"

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In A Gift of the Spirit, Eugene Victor Wolfenstein offers a reading of W. E. B. Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk aimed at demonstrating its organic unity and coherence. He takes as his interpretive key the experience of the color line with which Du Bois's narrative begins—the incident from his youth in which a white girl refused his offer of a visiting card. Wolfenstein contends that this instance of misrecognition makes visible an aesthetic and affective configuration involving insult and injury, both racial and personal; anger as the immediate response to the humiliating wound; and, when that anger is suppressed, a melancholy retreat from the site of injury. As Wolfenstein reconstructs it, Souls tells the story of Du Bois's twofold approach to waging the battle for recognition: proud and disciplined resistance to the impositions and injustices of white supremacy; and the development of an intellectual station above the field of battle, where it could be surveyed from on high.With its serious and respectful approach to this canonical work in African American social theory, A Gift of the Spirit is a fitting tribute to the enduring relevance of Du Bois's singular achievement.

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A Gift of the Spirit

Reading "The Souls of Black Folk"

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Inside/Outside Nietzsche

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The Victims of Democracy

Malcolm X and the Black Revolution

By: Eugene Victor Wolfenstein

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The Victims of Democracy

Malcolm X and the Black Revolution

By: Eugene Victor Wolfenstein

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1981.

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Malcolm X and the Black Revolution

By: Eugene Victor Wolfenstein

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Inside/Outside Nietzsche

Inside/Outside Nietzsche

A Gift of the Spirit

A Gift of the Spirit

A Gift of the Spirit

A Gift of the Spirit

Inside/Outside Nietzsche

Inside/Outside Nietzsche

The Victims of Democracy

The Victims of Democracy

The Victims of Democracy

The Victims of Democracy

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