Thinking Nietzsche with Africana thought towards an alluvial poetics of worlding / Michael Stern.
| Author/creator | Stern, Michael J. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2025. |
| Description | pages cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Series | New directions in German studies vol. 45 New directions in German studies ; vol. 45. ^A1179293 |
| Contents | Part 1: The poetics of worlding : forms and rhythms -- Introduction : imagine a world -- Sils Maria, Switzerland 1885 : consider the midge -- The lies of the poet and the birth of philosophical truth -- Part 2: Rhythm, repetition, morality : der Mensch classifies Muntu -- Expansion both worlds and unworlds -- The other side of the horizon : provincializing Nietzsche and négritude -- Morality and rhythm : Senghor asks Zarathustra to dance -- We knowers do not know ourselves -- Accra, Ghana 1958 : limbs taut as springs then fluid as water -- Part 3: The experience of an unworlded world -- Introduction : the poetics of unworlding -- The ocean sings a chorus of rivers : polyphonic discourse -- A mirror and its madness : Palos de La Frontera and Guanahani, August to early October -- Berlin, Germany : November 1884-February 1885 : Africa's doubled landscape -- On the way from Limuru, Kenya to Makere, Uganda : June 1959 -- Diaspora and the transparent body : Achille, Afolabe, and the leaf -- A brief comment on power and forms -- Part 4: Sifting through the alluvium, moving towards a poetics of reworlding : old wood, driftwood, fire; names drawn from water -- Movement : old wood -- Movement : driftwood found on distant shores, fire from the forge -- Movement : naming the unnamed, writing in the watery channels of the abyss -- Coda : a name as fluid as water. |
| Abstract | "Nietzsche's notion of the will to power explains how particular and local interpretations spread and dominate. Stern situates Nietzsche's thought alongside those of Africana artists and thinkers who, confronted with the effects of the slave trade and colonial violence, speak to new theoretical paradigms addressing erasure and displacement and its relationship to form making. Michael Stern sets Nietzsche in conversation with Africana artists and philosophers to explore the role of aesthetics in decolonial worldmaking"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2025007483 |
| ISBN | 9798765139639 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 9798765139622 (paperback) |
| ISBN | (epub) |
| ISBN | (pdf) |
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