File spoon-archives/nietzsche.archive/nietzsche_1998/nietzsche.9808, message 84


Date: Thu, 06 Aug 1998 12:27:06 -0700
From: Steve Callihan <callihan-AT-callihan.seanet.com>
Subject: Re: On-line reading


At 01:27 PM 8/6/98 -0400, Malgosia Askansas wrote:

>But here is a question for you.  How in the word do you know that the
>use of these "alien terms" such as assemblage, milieu, derive,
>deterritorialization is _not_ the best possible way of saying the things
>that the people who use them are saying?  Do you think that everything can
>be said best using only the language that you already understand?  That 
>a 2-year old child already understands?  Or what is the exact criterion
>you are proposing?  In _whose_ already pre-formed language do things have
>to be expressed to meet your standards?

Since this is the Nietzsche list, it might be helpful for those of us who
are not on the D-G list to provide some background and/or justification for
how these terms specifically relate to Nietzsche's thinking. I'm much more
interested in the premises that are behind the conclusions.

Steve C.




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