The essays that Jill Stauffer and Bettina Bergo collect in this
volume locate multiple affinities between the philosophies of
Nietzsche and Levinas. Both philosophers question the nature of
subjectivity and the meaning of responsibility after the "death of
God." While Nietzsche poses the dilemmas of a self without a ground
and of ethics at a time of cultural upheaval and demystification,
Levinas wrestles with subjectivity and the sheer possibility of
ethics after the Shoah. Both argue that goodness exists
independently of calculative reason& mdash;for Nietzsche,
goodness arises in a creative act moving beyond reaction and
ressentiment; Levinas argues that goodness occurs in a spontaneous
response to another person. In a world at once without God and
haunted by multiple divinities, Nietzsche and Levinas reject
transcendental foundations for politics and work toward an
alternative vision encompassing a positive sense of creation, a
complex fraternity or friendship, and rival notions of
responsibility.
Stauffer and Bergo group arguments around the following debates,
which are far from settled: What is the reevaluation of ethics (and
life) that Nietzsche and Levinas propose, and what does this imply
for politics and sociality? What is a human subject& mdash;and
what are substance, permanence, causality, and identity, whether
social or ethical& mdash;in the wake of the demise of God as
the highest being and the foundation of what is stable in
existence? Finally, how can a "God" still inhabit philosophy, and
what sort of name is this in the thought of Nietzsche and
Levinas?
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