Force from Nietzsche to Derrida
Clare Connors
| Legenda 23 April 2010 • 158pp ISBN: 978-1-906540-72-2 (hardback) • RRP £80, $110, €95 ISBN: 978-1-351193-63-4 (Taylor & Francis ebook) "What is the pervasive character of the world? The answer is force." But, as Heidegger asks next: "What is force?" Connors sets out to answer this question, tracing a genealogy of the idea of force through the writings of Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault and Derrida. These thinkers try to pin down what force is, but know too that it is something which cannot be neutrally described. Their vigorously literary writings must therefore be read as much for the stylistic and rhetorical ways in which they render force's powerful elusiveness as for the content of their arguments. And it is perhaps literature, rather than philosophy, which best engages with force. Certainly, for Connors, these philosophical positions are foreshadowed in remarkable detail by Shakespeare's Henry V - a play shot through with forces, imaginary, military, rhetorical and bodily. Clare Connors lectures in English at The Queen's College, Oxford. Bibliography entry: Connors, Clare, Force from Nietzsche to Derrida (Cambridge: Legenda, 2010) First footnote reference: 35 Clare Connors, Force from Nietzsche to Derrida (Cambridge: Legenda, 2010), p. 21. Subsequent footnote reference: 37 Connors, p. 47. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.) Bibliography entry: Connors, Clare. 2010. Force from Nietzsche to Derrida (Cambridge: Legenda) Example citation: ‘A quotation occurring on page 21 of this work’ (Connors 2010: 21). Example footnote reference: 35 Connors 2010: 21. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.)
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