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Speaker Series: “The Aim of Revenge: a Nietzschean Analysis” with Bernard Reginster (Brown)
October 29, 2021 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
“The Aim of Revenge: a Nietzschean Analysis”
Zoom Link:
https://unc.zoom.us/j/96017629368?pwd=N1dlRVdQeGZPVDBaZ2JwOEpiVG1HZz09
Meeting ID: 960 1762 9368
Passcode: 186995
Abstract:
Nietzsche makes a number of puzzling claims about revenge: the invention of Christian morality is an act of revenge; the refusal to retaliate for an injury, expressions of gratitude, and even acts of benevolence can be forms of revenge; and revenge can be taken against life, or reality, or even time. These claims call attention to a basic question: what is revenge for Nietzsche? I develop an answer to this question, which links revenge with his concept of “will to power”: revenge aims at bolstering or repairing the avenger’s “feeling of power” when it has been damaged.
Speaker Bio:
Professor Reginster studied philosophy and psychology at the University of Louvain (Belgium) and Münster (Germany), as well as music at the Académies of Uccle and Bouillon (Belgium). He earned his PhD in philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania. He has been teaching at Brown University since 1994 and has been the recipient of a Laurence S. Rockefeller Fellowship, Princeton University Center for Human Values (1997), a National Humanities Center Fellowship (2000), a Cogut Center for the Humanities Faculty Fellowship, Brown University (2007), and a John Rowe Workman Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Humanities from Brown University. He is the founder and director of the Program for Ethical Inquiry at Brown University since 2011.