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Nietzsche Cluster: Introduction

The origin of this cluster of papers was a conference held at University College Dublin in April 2011, with the support of the UCD School of Human Sciences and the Goethe Institute. The contributors were initially invited to submit papers on any aspect of Nietzsche’s writings, but it soon became apparent that the intended talks could be gathered, somewhat loosely, around the title ‘Nietzsche and “homo natura”: nature, ethics and the philosophy of power’. The conference thus provided a forum to explore some of the major issues of Nietzsche’s philosophy in the context of the continuities between the human and natural world on which Nietzsche so vehemently insists, and also thereby raised the question of whether there might nevertheless still subsist in Nietzsche’s thinking some sort of fissure between non-human nature and the human animal. Vanessa Lemm explores the complexities of the notion of ‘Einverleibung’ in Nietzsche, a word which can stand for a naturalistic process of ‘incorporation’ whereby one body absorbs another, such as in processes of ingestion and digestion. By way of the figure of ‘immunisation’, the absorption of a foreign body in order to strengthen overall health, Professor Lemm shows how Nietzsche opens up the concept of ‘Einverleibung’ to the extent that we can think it in fully cultural terms: in this respect ‘Einverleibung’ provides a model for an openness which seeks to incorporate the other into a community without this process destroying that other or annulling its alterity. Graham Parkes’s article illustrates how broadly Nietzsche construes the natural, by focusing on the use Nietzsche makes of the imagery of rock and stone. On the one hand stone is a stratum of that universe which Nietzsche characterizes (although it is not uncontroversial to assert this) as animated by the will to power, suggesting that there is no absolute boundary even between the living and the dead. As Professor Parkes shows, rock and stone are used by Nietzsche to represent this supposedly dead world, as well as in a range of related areas of figuration; International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 2013 Vol. 21, No. 1, 1–2, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09672559.2012.746278