The Shortest Shadow: Nietzsche's Philosophy of the Two

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Alenka Zupancic (Senior Research Fellow, Filozofski Institut ZRC SAZU) Alain Badiou

The Shortest Shadow

Nietzsche's Philosophy of the Two

Alenka Zupancic (Senior Research Fellow, Filozofski Institut ZRC SAZU), Alain Badiou

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English

Massachusetts Inst of Tec
26 September 2003

Philosophy; Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900

Series: Short Circuits

Restoring Nietzsche to a Nietzschean context-examining the definitive element that animates his work.

What is it that makes Nietzsche Nietzsche? In The Shortest Shadow, Alenka Zupančič counters the currently fashionable appropriation of Nietzsche as a philosopher who was ""ahead of his time"" but whose time has finally come-the rather patronizing reduction of his often extraordinary statements to mere opinions that we can ""share."" Zupančič argues that the definitive Nietzschean quality is his very unfashionableness, his being out of the mainstream of his or any time.

To restore Nietzsche to a context in which the thought ""lives on its own credit,"" Zupančič examines two aspects of his philosophy. First, in ""Nietzsche as Metapsychologist,"" she revisits the principal Nietzschean themes-his declaration of the death of God (which had a twofold meaning, ""God is dead"" and ""Christianity survived the death of God""), the ascetic ideal, and nihilism-as ideas that are very much present in our hedonist postmodern condition. Then, in the second part of the book, she considers Nietzsche's figure of the Noon and its consequences for his notion of the truth. Nietzsche describes the Noon not as the moment when all shadows disappear but as the moment of ""the shortest shadow""-not the unity of all things embraced by the sun, but the moment of splitting, when ""one turns into two."" Zupančič argues that this notion of the Two as the minimal and irreducible difference within the same animates all of Nietzsche's work, generating its permanent and inherent tension.

By: Alenka Zupancic (Senior Research Fellow Filozofski Institut ZRC SAZU)
Foreword by: Alain Badiou
Imprint: Massachusetts Inst of Tec
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 137mm, Spine: 10mm
Weight: 227g
ISBN: 9780262740265
ISBN 10: 0262740265
Series: Short Circuits
Pages: 190
Publication Date: 26 September 2003
Recommended Age: From 18
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Alenka Zupancic is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy, Slovene Academy of Sciences, Ljubljana. She is the author of The Shortest Shadow: Nietzsche's Philosophy of the Two (MIT Press, 2003).

Reviews for The Shortest Shadow: Nietzsche's Philosophy of the Two

You have heard it said that 'we are not yet thinking.' Alenka Zupancic gives us proof to the contrary in this exhilarating book. By pulling from Nietzsche's texts a powerful new concept--that of Noon--she decisively vacates the claim that Nietszche was the champion of a relativism necessitated by the death of God. Arguing, rather, that skeptical relativism resurrects God for the modern world, she reevaluates completely Nietzsche's contribution to thought. It is impossible to overstate the significance of The Shortest Shadow 's philosophical achievement. --Joan Copjec, author of Imagine There's No Woman