Spurs: Nietzsche's Style
by Jacques Derrida
Spurs: Nietzsche's Style
Jacques Derrida |
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Read in January, 2006
Well, I think my review was generous. Derrida is difficult enough, but when you add a barely lucid poem about Nietzsche's style to Derrida's pen...you've got a tough time coming.
I love Nietzsche, though I guess if I liked him I should hate him. Therefore, I read Derrida's spurs. The one redeeming quality is that is discussed the propositional aspects (if that makes sense to anyone) of Nietzsche that resonates with Irigaray. Zarathustra went down, a going-towards, an being-in: this motion of ...more
I love Nietzsche, though I guess if I liked him I should hate him. Therefore, I read Derrida's spurs. The one redeeming quality is that is discussed the propositional aspects (if that makes sense to anyone) of Nietzsche that resonates with Irigaray. Zarathustra went down, a going-towards, an being-in: this motion of ...more
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Read in November, 2007
Derrida at his most playful and absurd - in short, at his best. Ties the will to knowledge to castration anxiety. Really a book about "women" and misogyny in Nietzsche. Likens authors to spiders. Extra points for the chic early 80s geometric motif.
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Read in October, 2007
Contains perhaps Derrida's greatest joke at the expense of Heidegger and Gadamer. I still think he has incorrectly read Heidegger and that his interpretation of Heidegger is less substantive than that of Gadamer.
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The best of Derrida's works I've read. A polemical work bound to raise eyebrows...and not because the text is utterly incomprehensible.
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