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Mat Messerschmidt – The Nietzschean Body and “Incorporation”
October 13, 2020 @ 12:30 pm – 2:30 pm
Mat Messerschmidt
PhD Candidate, Committee on Social Thought
The Nietzschean Body and “Incorporation”
with a response by David Kretz,
PhD Student in the Committee on Social Thought & Germanic Studies
In this chapter I examine Heidegger’s interpretation of Nietzsche, observing how Heidegger’s sense of Nietzsche’s philosophy as a “detheologization” of Christian thought depends on the notion that both Protestant Christianity and Nietzsche participate in the continual advancement of a subjectivist metaphysics, a process that culminates in the Nietzschean “body,” the last Western “subject.” Through a critique of Heidegger’s understanding of “incorporation [Einverleibung]” in Nietzsche’s work, I argue that the Nietzschean detheologization that takes place in his notion of the body in fact does not make Nietzsche an unwilling participant in some Christian metaphysics, as Heidegger believes; rather, the Christian legacy in Nietzsche’s body is an emphasis on a human finitude that has more resonances in Heidegger’s own thought than Heidegger would care to admit.
Tuesday, October 13, 12:30 PM
Virtual Meeting via Zoom