Movya tukee kulttuuria: 2ND NIETZSCHE SYMPOSIUM IN JYVÄSKYLÄ 17.3.2010

Movya haluaa omalta osaltaan tukea Jyväskylässä järjestettävää toista Nietzshe Symposiumia.

2ND NIETZSCHE SYMPOSIUM IN JYVÄSKYLÄ
17 March 2010, 2 pm, Jyväskylä University
in JT 202 Juomatehdas

Organized by the Doctoral School of Hungarian Studies

A F T E R N I E T Z S C H E A N N A R R A T I V E S :
B I O G R A P H Y, H I S T O R Y, P O E T I C S A N D P H I L O S O P H Y
The title of our symposium refers to the influential book
of the American philosopher Gary Shapiro, Nietzschean
Narratives, published by Indiana University Press in
1989. Introducing the framework of critical narratology,
Shapiro’s impressive monograph foregrounds the
possibilities of an interpretation that can find ways
within diverse rhetorico-poetic and philosophical
positions, which are simultaneously presented in
Friedrich Nietzsche’s works, but remained oppositional
in the Western theoretical tradition.
Following the narrative patterns in Nietzsche’s texts, a
wide range of research areas can be detected. As
Shapiro’s book suggests, various disciplines such as
philology, history, ethics, aesthetics, language criticism,
epistemology, psychology, genealogy, cultural criticism,
philosophical hermeneutics, literary criticism,
philosophy of mind, body theories, media studies, and
cognitive sciences can be linked with Nietzsche's
philosophy and moreover, with his poetry, musical
compositions and atelier-photographs, influenced by
the literary tendencies in his writing technique and intellectual attitude, as well as defining
his reflections on the artistic form-giving of human life. Due to the publication of Shapiro's
analysis, the recognition of such multi-faceted and competing narratives in the
Nietzschean discourse proliferated in the last twenty years, producing a vast amount of
critical literature.
Our symposium creates the opportunity for its participants coming from various fields to
present their own results in connection with the Nietzschean oeuvre, keeping in mind the
narratological results of the previous decades. The participants will discuss questions that
proved to be productive for them, freely browsing among “Nietzschean narratives”
according to their individual interests.