Nietzsche and Emma Frost: Two names which make more sense together than the context actually demands

[alixtii]

My Nietzsche class was one of those sorts of classes where the whole thing is structured to work you up to One Big Idea. In practice, it got a little repetitive, but I don't really have a problem with it in theory; when the day comes (hopefully) when I'm designing syllabi for real, I wouldn't be surprised if I do something similar.

But I think I get the One Big Idea--call it postmodernism, call it mysticism, call it whatever you like because words won't quite capture it and that's the point--and I think I ably demonstrated it in my midterm. (That's what "A+" usually means, right?) I even persuasively criticized some of the terminology he used (all language falls short of truth, but I'm struggling with whether some terminology is just beyond rehabillitation; I argued no pace Rorty in my undergrad thesis, but now I find myself arguing yes).

Anyway, now I have 15-20 pages to write by Friday (not to mention my prettylightsfic) and I have nowhere else to go. I mean, sure, there's more than one way to communicate the One Big Idea; I'm not Wittgenstein, dropping out of philosophy after writing the Tractatus. But. . . .

The solution is take on an issue technical enough one doesn't get caught up in abstraction. I know this. But none of his suggested essay topics really seem to lend themselves to it.

So I'm reading the three Emma Frost digests instead.

. . .

Emma's actually a pretty horrible candidate for ubermensch, although she might make a decent example of the ascetic ideal.

(Which reminds me to work on that essay on Buffy and Nietzsche I've been meaning to finish for years.)

Comments

[amyheartssiroc.livejournal.com]

Procrastinating papers is bad! Don't make me come take away your comic books! =P

Good luck with it, though.