Contagion: Sexuality, Disease, and Death in German Idealism and Romanticism (Studies in Continental Thought)

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"Krell writes here with a brilliance of style that few other philosophers can match." ―John Sallis Although the Romantic Age is usually thought of as idealizing nature as the source of birth, life, and creativity, David Farrell Krell focuses on the preoccupation of three key German Romantic thinkers―Novalis, Schelling, and Hegel―with nature’s destructive powers―contagion, disease, and death.

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Nietzsche: Vols. 3 and 4 (Vol. 3: The Will to Power as Knowledge and as Metaphysics; Vol. 4: Nihilism) by Martin Heidegger (1991-03-01)

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(Contagion: Sexuality, Disease, and Death in German Idealism and Romanticism) Author: David Farrell Krell published on (June, 1998)

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The Tragic Absolute: German Idealism and the Languishing of God (Studies in Continental Thought)

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"This is vintage Krell―he is as always, a reader in the best sense of the word...." ―Dennis J. Schmidt "Krell is a strong and often eloquent writer... I regard this to be one of his most important works...." ―Jason M. Wirth In The Tragic Absolute, David Farrell Krell shows that German Idealist and Romantic theories of literature and aesthetic judgment, especially when it comes to tragedy, are closer to the heart of metaphysics and ethics than previously thought. Krell not only explores the contributions of Schelling, Hölderlin, Novalis, Hegel, and Nietzsche to the aesthetics of tragedy, he also charts the fate of the absolute and speculative philosophy in terms of the tragic. Krell explodes the usual conception that aesthetic judgments about literary genres are relatively marginal subjects for philosophy. Indeed, in Krell’s view, even God himself, the very absolute of traditional metaphysics, is seen as languishing and condemned to tragic downfall. Questions concerning the death of God, the role of trauma and forgetting in narrative, the overcoming of barriers between humans and other living beings, and the role of music and rhythm as sources of ecstasy are highlighted in this keen, precise, and lively book.

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Infectious Nietzsche (Studies in Continental Thought)

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"Infectious Nietzsche is simply one of the most interesting and engaging works to appear on Nietzsche’s philosophy in years." ―David Allison Krell explores health, illness, and creativity in the life and thought of Friedrich Nietzsche. Drawing on a varied literature of philosophical reflections on health, and analyzing Nietzsche’s confrontation with traditional values, Krell skillfully engages the legacy of Platonism and Western metaphysics that is at the core of Nietzsche’s thought. Nietzsche’s genealogical critique, his doctrine of eternal recurrence of the same, and the Nietzschean physiology and psychology of decadence are principal foci. Anyone interested in a philosophical reflection on questions of genius and pathology, and all readers of Nietzsche, will find Krell’s new book compelling reading.

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Of Memory, Reminiscence and Writing: On the Verge (Studies in Continental Thought) by D F Krell (1990-10-01)

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Lunar Voices: Of Tragedy, Poetry, Fiction, and Thought by David Farrell Krell (1995-07-01)

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Nietzsche: Vols. 3 and 4 (Vol. 3: The Will to Power as Knowledge and as Metaphysics; Vol. 4: Nihilism) by Martin Heidegger (1991-03-01)

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Nietzsche: A Novel (S U N Y Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy)

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This historical-biographical novel fleshes out the facts of Nietzsche's life with fictional treatment. Using untraditional narrative techniques and interweaving medical reports, actual letters, and original new text, the novel takes the last years of Nietzsche's life, the years of insanity, as a frame for the entire life. "A radical philosopher deserves a radical biography, and Krell has provided such a radical presentation of Nietzsche's life and death. By telling this story from the perspective of Nietzsche's insanity Krell gives the account a Dionysian and excessive quality that I have found nowhere else in the literature on Nietzsche. This is an original and powerful work that is conceived in a remarkable intimacy with Nietzsche as a philosopher. It is a demanding, disturbing book, a creative accomplishment of the first order. "This masterfully conceived work effectively uses Nietzsche's letters translated with clarity and verve. Krell gives expression in the style and structure of this book to many of Nietzsche's thoughts about time, madness, order, love, tragedy, and character. In its broken narrations the book achieves what is probably impossible to achieve in discursive thought: a performance of the ideas and movement whereby Nietzsche put in question many of the leading principles of order in western civilization." -- Charles Scott, Penn State University Krell offers a fictional account of the last ten years of Nietzsche's life, the years of his paralysis and madness. Nietzsche's regression during those years, from one of Europe's leading intellectual lights to a passive mascot for his sister's "Nietzsche Archive," provides the frame for a narrative of his entire life. The author uses all the available medical documentation and the entire collection of works and letters in order to paint his portrait. While Nietzsche has been the object of several attempts at fictional biography, no attempt to date has been based on such careful research: even the highest flights of imagination in this work are based on scrupulous reading and reflection. "The biographical scholarship and literary erudition behind Krell's Nietzsche are awe-inspiring. Anyone interested in Nietzsche's life and art will be pleasurably instructed by reading this rare book--rare in that novels by scholars seldom work so beautifully." -- Graham Parkes, University of Hawaii

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Son of Spirit: A Novel (S U N Y Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy)

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Son of Spirit is the story of a natural child of philosophy--the story of one of philosophy's bastards. Hegel's first son, Louis, known to posterity as Ludwig Fischer, was an illegitimate child born to Hegel's landlady in 1807. At the time, Hegel was completing his first major philosophical work, The Phenomenology of Spirit. In that work, the philosopher spoke out in the name of spirit and reason; in his life, he worried about the unreasonable accident of an unwanted son. For Louis represented the kind of contingency that can befall a spokesperson of spirit. Hegel tried to take Louis into his home, to acknowledge him, even to love him. Yet Ludwig Fischer was destined for an early, tragic death--destined precisely by spirit. Son of Spirit is also the story of a second adopted child--Minna Herzlieb, one of Goethe's enduring loves--who had a more protracted but similarly tragic end. Louis Hegel and Minna Herzlieb lived for a time under the same roof, for as young children both were adopted by Friedrich Frommann, Hegel's bookseller in Jena. The stories of Minna and Ludwig therefore intertwine, allowing the novel to develop the conflict between Hegel and Goethe--the struggle between Hegel's "absolute spirit" and Goethe's "spirit of the Earth." Son of Spirit shows how devastating illegitimacy is for human beings who are born to the righteous and the just. It shows how murderous the theories of the righteous and the just may prove to be for their children. Finally, the experimental yet meditative style of the novel demonstrates how powerfully Hegel's thought still dominates our own time. Hegel produced more than one bastard.

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(Contagion: Sexuality, Disease, and Death in German Idealism and Romanticism) Author: David Farrell Krell published on (June, 1998)

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Nietzsche: The Will to Power as Art v. 1 (Nietzsche, Vols. I & II) by Martin Heidegger (1991-07-17)

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Nietzsche: Vols. 3 and 4 (Vol. 3: The Will to Power as Knowledge and as Metaphysics; Vol. 4: Nihilism) by Heidegger, Martin, David Farrell Krell 1991

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Postponements: Woman, Sensuality and Death in Nietzsche (Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy)

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Daimon Life: Heidegger and Life-Philosophy (Studies in Continental Thought)

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"Daimon Life is life-enchancing. To read it is to become richer in wor(l)d." –John Llewelyn Disclosure of Martin Heidegger’s complicity with the National Socialist regime in 1933-34 has provoked virulent debate about the relationship between his politics and his philosophy. Did Heidegger’s philosophy exhibit a kind of organicism readily transformed into ideological "blood and soil"? Or, rather, did his support of the Nazis betray a fundamental lack of loyalty to living things? David Farrell Krell traces Heidegger’s political authoritarianism to his failure to develop a constructive "life-philosophy"―his phobic reactions to other forms of being. Krell details Heidegger’s opposition to Lebensphilosophie as expressed in Being and Time, in an important but little-known lecture course on theoretical biology given in 1929–30 called "The Basic Concepts of Metaphysics," and in a recently published key text, Contributions to Philosophy, written in 1936–38. Although Heidegger’s attempt to think through the problems of life, sexual reproduction, behavior, environment, and the ecosystem ultimately failed, Krell contends that his methods of thinking nonetheless pose important tasks for our own thought. Drawing on and away from Heidegger, Krell expands on the topics of life, death, sexuality, and spirit as these are treated by Freud, Nietzsche, Derrida, and Irigaray. Daimon Life addresses issues central to contemporary philosophies of politics, gender, ecology, and theoretical biology.

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(The Tragic Absolute: German Idealism and the Languishing of God) Author: David Farrell Krell published on (September, 2005)

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Infectious Nietzsche Studies in Continental Thought (Paperback) By ( Author ) Mar-1996 Paperback

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Lunar Voices: Of Tragedy, Poetry, Fiction, and Thought

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David Farrell Krell reflects on nine writers and philosophers, including Heidegger, Derrida, Blanchot, and Holderlin, in a personal exploration of the meaning of sensual love, language, tragedy, and death. The moon provides a unifying image that guides Krell's development of a new poetics in which literature and philosophy become one. Krell pursues important philosophical motifs such as time, rhythm, and desire, through texts by Nietzsche, Trakl, Empedocles, Kafka, and Garcia Marquez. He surveys instances in which poets or novelists explicitly address philosophical questions, and philosophers confront literary texts—Heidegger's and Derrida's appropriations of Georg Trakl's poetry, Blanchot's obsession with Kafka's tortuous love affairs, and Garcia Marquez's use of Nietzsche's idea of the Eternal Return—all linked by the tragic hero Empedocles. In his search to understand the insatiable desire for completeness that patterns so much art and philosophy, Krell investigates the identification of the lunar voice with woman in various roles—lover, friend, sister, shadow, and narrative voice.

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Lunar Voices: Of Tragedy, Poetry, Fiction and Thought by D F Krell (1995-07-13)

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Contagion: Sexuality, Disease, and Death in German Idealism and Romanticism (Studies in Continental Thought) by David F. Krell (1998-03-22)

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Nietzsche: Vols. 3 and 4 (Vol. 3: The Will to Power as Knowledge and as Metaphysics; Vol. 4: Nihilism) by Heidegger, Martin, David Farrell Krell(March 1, 1991) Paperback

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The Tragic Absolute: German Idealism and the Languishing of God (Studies in Continental Thought) by David Farrell Krell (2005-09-05)

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Basic Writings: From Being and Time (1927) to the Task of Thinking (1964) (His Works) by Martin and David F. Krell Heidegger (1977-08-01)

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Of Memory, Reminiscence, and Writing: On the Verge (Studies in Continental Thought)

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"Krell creates a remarkable interplay of meanings, allusions, and connotations—an interplay of multiple resonance which is finely tuned to Derrida's thought and which makes his essay as artful as it is conceptually disciplined. He is surely one of the most astute translators and readers in contemporary Continental thought." —Charles E. Scott

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Lunar Voices: Of Tragedy, Poetry, Fiction and Thought by D F Krell (1995-07-13)

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