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The dictionary definition of cavern is actually
a very large cave, so this name is really quite inaccurate, as
the venue is somewhat smaller than the Exmouth Arms. However,
alliteration prevailed over sense and we thought we would use
it anyway for an extra Kant's Cave type lecture to be given at
a different venue by the visiting American Professor David Fisher
(North Central College, Illinois.) This will be at 7 pm on Monday
10 December in the upstairs bar of the Two
Chairmen, 39 Dartmouth
Street, Westminster (near St James Park
and Westminster tube stations.)
David will be well known to many PFA members as a thoughtful and
eloquent speaker, who has given us four lectures over the years,
the most recent being a thought-provoking speech on concepts of
dealing with difference. This lecture promises to be equally challenging.
In 1888 Friedrich Nietzsche wrote "When
I picture a perfect reader, I always picture a monster of courage
and curiosity, also something supple, cunning, cautious, a born
adventurer and discoverer." (Ecce Homo, "Why
I Write Such Excellent Books," § 3).
In 1996 Tracy B. Strong (author of Friedrich Nietzsche and
the Politics of Transfiguration) added that "Unless a
text forces the reader into his or her own presence, it will not
bring the reader into the presence of the author." How are
readers today shaped by Nietzsche's texts?
The texts to be considered for this conversation are On the
Genealogy of Morality ( First Essay, §10-13 and Second
Essay, § 11-12 on ressentiment) and Thus Spake Zarathustra
(Part II, § 7, "On the Tarantulas" and §20
"On Redemption").
The question for the evening's discussion is: how can these texts
be interpreted as supporting either "conservative" or
"radical" perspectives on politics?
£2 door charge, free for PFA members
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