Resentment and the "Feminine" in Nietzsche's Politico-Aesthetics

by Caroline Joan S. Picart

Book Overview

Nietzsche's remarks about women and femininity have generated a great deal of debate among philosophers, some seeing them as ineradicably misogynist, others interpreting them more favorably as ironic and potentially useful for modern feminism. In this study, Kay Picart uses a genealogical approach to track the way Nietzsche's initial use of "feminine" mythological figures as symbols for modernity's regenerative powers gradually gives way to an...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271018895
• ISBN13: 9780271018898
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"