Date: Mon, 1 Jul 1996 02:16:45 -0600
From: jlnich1-AT-service1.uky.edu (jln)
Subject: Re: Re[4]: what is bio-power?


  To put it far too schematically, I
>would find it very difficult to read self-overcoming as any sort of a
>return to
>an originary status or condition.  Self-overcoming is simultaneously a process
>of destruction (the "throwing off") AND a movement of creation.
>
>
>Sam Chambers
>University of Minnesota

Sam,

according to Rorty, Nietzsche is a romantic also.  Indeed, it is the
movement to self-creation which Rorty finds  most akin to the romantics,
for they sought, according to him, a self-creation of people.  Get rid of
this haughty Reason, and let people make themselves into new beings.  I
find Rorty's account quite effective and you might check it out.

Jeff