Cavell on Nietzsche: The Ascetic Ideal, Eternal Recurrence, and “Higher Self”
2019 ◽
pp. 42-57
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Cavell saw Friedrich Nietzsche as a fellow devotee of Emerson, and adherent to the notion of self-overcoming. He admired several aspects of Nietzsche’s philosophy, including the notions of Eternal Recurrence, striving for the “Higher Self” and the Three Metamorphoses of the Human Spirit from Thus Spoke Zarathustra. He refers to the conjunction of Emerson and Nietzsche in numerous works, as talismans for some of his deepest insights into film. An interpretation of Jane Campion’s Ada in The Piano depicts this notion of a Higher Self faithfully,as a resolute and self-willed pioneer woman in mid-nineteenth century New Zealand.
1995 ◽
Vol 10
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pp. 31-54
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2012 ◽
Vol 29
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pp. 429-443
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1999 ◽
Vol 24
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pp. 807-852
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