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| Untergehen I'm surprised that you don't enter some king's service (Thomas More, Utopia) Tim Wilson, Ph.D Ottawa, Canada |
| What is Untergehen ? Going under (untergehen) is the decisive act of the philosopher or artist who must bring back whatever enlightenment he or she has achieved to those within the community who are ready to hear it. For instance, each of the following, in their own way, go under: Plato's philosopher-ruler, More's Hythloday, Spenser's Immerito, and Nietzsche's Zarathustra. This site contains: |
| some notes from my readings in the history of Western PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE; and COURSE MATERIAL for the English Literature courses I teach at the University of Ottawa |
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| Selected Publications: "Hamlet and Modern Metaphysics" - an interpretation of the play in relation to the modern revolution in philosophy undertaken by Bacon; (forthcoming) "Nietzsche's Early Political Thinking II: 'The Greek State'" - a close reading of Nietzsche's early essay "The Greek State" revealing its linkages to the thought of Plato; (forthcoming) "Nietzsche's Early Political Thinking: 'Homer on Competition'" - a close reading of "Homer on Competition" revealing Nietzsche's esoteric doctrine of the relation between phusis and nomos; published in Minerva 9 (2005): 177-235 (HTML version) "The Aesthetics of the Good Physician" - on "untergehen in Plato, More and Spenser; published in English Studies in Canada 28 (2002): 7-30 "The Question of Representation in Elizabethan Literature" - my Ph.D thesis, a Heideggerian reading of Sidney, Spenser and Shakespeare (1998) "Auden: Toward A Minor Literature" - a Deleuzean reading of Auden; published in Canadian Review of Comparative Literature 24.2 (1997): 247-62 "Questions of Being: An Exploration of Enduring Dreams� - a Heideggerian reading of Moss; with Lorrie Graham, published in Echoing Silence: Essays on Arctic Narrative. Ed. John Moss. Ottawa: U of Ottawa Press, 1997. 137-43 "Structure, Time, and Limits in the Discourse of the Human Sciences" - a Derridean deconstruction of G�rard Genette; published in Postscript: A Journal of Graduate Criticism and Theory. 3.2 (1996): 101-110 "Foucault, Genealogy, History" (PDF) - a Heideggerian deconstruction of Foucault; published in Philosophy Today 39.2 (1995): 157-170 Contact me: [email protected] |