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Spurs: Nietzsche's Styles/Éperons: Les Styles de Nietzsche

1979Jacques Derrida

3.9/5

We are still far from determining the essence of forgetting. Precisely there where forgetting reveals itself to us in its full extent are we still only too vulnerable to the danger of understanding forgetting as but a human fact.It was exciting to read Spurs over the weekend, the opening interval of the World Cup. Apparently Derrida and Jean Genet used to attend club matches in France together. I marvel at what that could have involved: the thunk of the ball, the deferred penetration of the castrated goal and, well, all those penises. Spurs sets a risible tone. The introduction as overture plays with the meanings of coup and tympana: the search as drumbeats, the forceful pounding an alert as well as an erotic culmination. Derrida arrives on stage to extend the prose proem, albeit one in a nonlinear fashion, accepting Nietzsche's assertion that Truth is a woman (from the opening aphorism of Beyond Good and Evil) he speaks of character and seduction. The word for Spur is etymologically similar to Style. Style and stylus refer to a pointed intrusion, a jabbing, almost like the ship splitting the waters. This carnival cruise continues revealing a missing umbrella which prompts Derrida to conclude that neither Nietzsche's thought nor his texts were or are centralized. An interrogation of Heidegger's Nietzsche follows, one with Derrida sight reading from Heidegger's text while staring at his own upraised thumb instead of ponder Nietzsche himself. This is a bit maddening but a lot of laughs as well.
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