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Nietzsche and Emma Frost: Two names which make more sense together than the context actually demands
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![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
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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.)
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.)
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Good luck with it, though.