Nietzsche's Happy Returns

Fourth annual conference of the Friedrich Nietzsche Society, held at Clyne Castle, University College of Swansea, 15-17 April 1994, in celebration of the 150th anniversary of Nietzsche's birth.

All sessions held in the Great Hall unless otherwise indicated.

Friday, 15th April

12.00-2.00: Registration (Castle Foyer)

1.00-2.00: Lunch

2.00-3.45:

'Many Happy Returns': A welcome from the conference organiser
David E. Cooper (University of Durham): 'Nietzsche and Buddhism'
Richard Schacht (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign): 'Nietzsche's Nietzsche: The Prefaces of 1885-1888'

3.45-4.15: Afternoon tea

4.15-5.45:

Babette E. Babich (Fordham University): 'Nietzsche's Philosophy of Science: The Musical Pathos of Truth'
Daniel W. Conway (Penn State University): 'Standing Between Two Millennia: The Skirmishes of an Untimely Man'

5.45-6.15: Annual General Meeting of the Friedrich Nietzsche Society

6.30-7.30: Dinner

7.30:

Poetry reading by Sebastian Barker (London): 'Nietzsche Dreaming about Intelligence'

Bar open till 11.00

Saturday, 16th April

8.00-9.00: Breakfast

9.30-11.00:

Albi Rosenthal (Oxford): 'Early Nietzsche Reception in Britain'
Alan D. Schrift (Grinnell College/K.U.-Leuven): 'Nietzsche's French Legacy'

11.00-11.30: Morning coffee

11.30-1.00:

T.L.S. Sprigge (University of Edinburgh): 'Is Pity an Evil?'
Kenneth Minogue (London School of Economics): 'Nietzsche and Modern Servility'

1.00-2.00: Lunch

2.00-3.15:

Sarah Kofman (Université de Paris I): 'Le mépris des Juifs: Nietzsche, les Juifs, l'antisémitisme' ('Contempt for the Jews: Nietzsche, the Jews, Anti-Semitism').
This paper will be given in French; an English translation will be available.

3.15-3.45: Afternoon tea

3.45-6.00:

R.J. Hollingdale (London): 'Nietzsche's Metapolitics'
Tracy B. Strong (U.C. San Diego): 'Nietzsche's Political Misappropriations'
Gottfried H. Wagner (Cerro Maggiore): 'Nietzsche's Sister and Wagner's Wife: Forging their Way Ahead'

6.30-7.30: Reception (Library)

7.30-9.00: Conference Dinner

9.00:

Lieder Concert: Beatrix Bown (mezzo-sop.) and Roger Hollinrake (piano) perform works by Nietzsche and Peter Gast

Bar open till 12.00

Sunday, 17th April

8.00-9.00: Breakfast

9.30-11.00: Workshops:

Great Hall:

Herman Siemens (University of Essex): 'Agonal Culture as a Model for Critical Transvaluation'
David Owen (University of Central Lancashire) will give a response

Library:

Nick Midgley (University of Warwick): 'The Will Beyond Good and Evil'
Justin Barton (University of Warwick): 'Incorporations of the Subject: Time, Connectionism and the Übermensch'

Room 64:

John S. Moore (London): 'Degeneration, Nordau and Nietzsche'

11.00-11.30: Morning coffee

11.30-1.00:

James R. Watson (Loyola University): 'The Many Nietzsches'
Christopher Norris (U.W.C. Cardiff) and Peter Sedgwick (U.W.C. Cardiff): 'Nietzsche, Left and Right'

1.00-2.00: Lunch

Departure after lunch

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