Thinker On Stage: Nietzsche's Materialism (Theory and History of Literature) [Paperback]

Peter Sloterdijk (Author)

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• Paperback: 136 pages
• Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press; 1 edition (June 30, 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0816617651
• ISBN-13: 978-0816617654
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 0.4 inches
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Firstly we're not dealing with materialism in the sense of Marxian materialism, we're dealing with Nietzsche as phenomenon, the kaleidoscope,enduring oneself in such a way as to tag Dionysian intoxication and Apollonian dream as infrastructure for containment of joy, an actual unity at the intersection of dynamic, unintentional forces for which the subject is cleared of any tendency to personalize.
This empathetic interpretation leads to a kynical resistence to motive by staying vigilant, a bursting open (sublation)of drives as they occur. Materialism yes, but only in the sense that they never give way to intoxication without a letting go of the deception that is privacy/identity/genius first. Sloterdijk's reinterpretation allows each reader to deconstruct and reconstruct at the same time an unfolding beauty drawn from the excess energy available, which Schopenhauer had earlier sent involuntarily 'East'.Read slowly,a masterly understanding of an ecstatic and agonizing author.