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Nooks and Hunched Backs: A Reply to Ruth Abbey

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2008

Paul Franco
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Let me begin by addressing what seems to be the central issue that Abbey raises about my article: What does looking at Human, All too Human (henceforth, HH) in the context of the problem of culture add to our understanding of that text? She acknowledges my point that most commentators on HH have focused their attention on Nietzsche's investigation of the “history of the moral sensations” and its connection to his later “genealogy of morals.” She even seems to concede that my attempt to understand HH in terms of Nietzsche's long-standing concern with culture is distinctive. Her problem with my analysis is that it “fails to demonstrate clearly the heuristic value of [its] focus on culture” and it does not sufficiently explain “how reframing the problems of morality as a concern about culture really does illuminate Nietzsche's purposes and achievements in this work.” She attributes this failure to my focusing primarily on the text of HH instead of—to repeat the refrain of her reply—engaging with the relevant secondary literature.

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Research Article
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The Review of Politics , Volume 70 , Issue 2 , Spring 2008 , pp. 278 - 283
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Copyright © University of Notre Dame 2008

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References

1 Ruth Abbey, “Bricks and Stones: A Reply to Paul Franco,” Review of Politics 70 (2008): 273.

2 Friedrich Nietzsche, Kritische Studienausgabe, ed. G. Colli and M. Montinari (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1999), 8: 25 [3].

3 Paul Franco, “Nietzsche's HH and the Problem of Culture,” Review of Politics 69 (2007): 217.

4 Abbey, “Bricks and Stones,” 277.

5 Franco, “Nietzsche's HH and the Problem of Culture,” 242; see also 218–19.

6 Abbey, “Bricks and Stones,” 275.

7 Ruth Abbey, Nietzsche's Middle Period (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), 35.

8 Ibid., 36–39.

9 Ibid., 52–53.

10 Franco, “Nietzsche's HH and the Problem of Culture,” 227.

11 Abbey, Nietzsche's Middle Period, 24–33.

12 Ibid., xii.

13 Abbey, “Bricks and Stones,” 276.

14 Ibid., 277.