Nietzsche and Literary Studies

James I. Porter is Distinguished Professor of Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley, where he holds the Irving Stone Chair in Literature. He is the author of two books and numerous articles and chapters on Nietzsche and three further books in classical studies and classical reception, in addition to a wide range of articles, chapters, and edited volumes in ancient and modern philosophy, aesthetics, and literature. He has held fellowships from the NEH, the Stanford Humanities Center, the Humboldt Foundation, Bristol University (UK), Princeton University, the Getty Research Institute, and the Guggenheim Foundation.

1. Heraclitus' Clarity: From Aphorism to Cento André Laks; 2. Ariadne, or the Mediation of the Image: Nietzsche and Plato revisited Catherine Pickstock; 3. Nietzsche's Centaurs: Synthesizing Philosophy, Science, and Art Michael Forster; 4. Nietzsche on the Task of the Poets in his Middle Writings Keith Ansell-Pearson; 5. Some Images in Nietzsche's Zarathustra Paul North; 6. Nietzsche Ludens: Subversions of Literature and Philosophy in the Later Writings James I. Porter; 7. Nietzsche and French Literature from the End of the Nineteenth Century to 1914 Jacques Le Rider; 8. Ecce Mann: Having Fun with Nietzsche Eric Downing; 9. Plant Imaginaries and Human Existence in Nietzsche and Sartre Vanessa Lemm; 10. The Resources of the Figure: Literary Discourse and the Critique of Religious Asceticism in Nietzsche's Later Works Ryan Coyne; 11. Nietzsche and Jewish Survival between Sarah Kofman and Jacques Derrida Sarah Hammerschlag.