Emerson, Nietzsche and Foucault: graded paper - AAALB019B

• Title: Emerson, Nietzsche and Foucault: písemná práce
• Guaranteed by: Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures (21-UALK)
• Faculty: Faculty of Arts
• Actual: from 2024
• Semester: both
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 3
• Examination process: written
• Hours per week, examination: 0/0, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: winter:unknown / unknown (1); summer:unknown / unknown (1)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: not taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment; you can enroll for the course in winter and in summer semester
• Guarantor: David Lee Robbins, Ph.D.
• Co-requisite : AAALB019A

Annotation

Emerson, Nietzsche, and Foucault
An examination of the influence of Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82) on Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), and,
equally important, of the congruence of themes, styles, and preoccupations that characterize major works by the
two thinkers/writers. Through a careful reading of major works by Emerson and Nietzsche, as well as of critical
evaluations of their significance and influence, an effort will be made to unfold the similarities and dissimilarities in
their themes, styles, preoccupations, metaphors, contexts, and textual spaces. In the process, the relationship of
these seminal thinkers to romanticism, modernism, postmodernism, and post-postmodernism will be explored.
Close comparison of the two goes beyond the murky questions of "influence," however: To be aware of the extent
to which much in Nietzsche's thinking was shaped by Emerson's language and constructions may reshape in
significant ways our readings and understandings of important aspects of the Nietzschean project itself. Works
considered will include Emerson’s Essays, First Series; Essays, Second Series; The Conduct of Life; and Letters
and Social Aims; Nietzsche’s The Gay Science (Die Froeliche Wissenschaft); Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Also Sprach
Zarathustra); Beyond Good and Evil (Jenseits von Gut und Boese); Toward a Genealogy of Morals (Zur Genealogie
der Moral); and various writings by legatees of the Emerson-Nietzsche project, such as Hans Vaihinger, William
James, Robert Musil, Henri Bergson, Marcel Proust, Michel Foucault, and Gilles Deleuze.

Last update: Znojemská Helena, Mgr., Ph.D. (21.06.2016)