Nietzsche Contra the Real World

Authors

  • Joel Wainwright Department of Geography, Ohio State University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14288/acme.v9i1.855

Keywords:

real world, apparent world, fires of Heraclitus, Europe, postcolonial, transcritical, Nietzsche, Real World

Abstract

This essay outlines three geographical problem-spaces illuminated by Nietzsche. The first is Nietzsche’s counterpoint to the ‘real world’: the ‘apparent world’. The second is a non-totalizing, political elaboration of the first, what Deleuze once called “the local fires of Heraclitus.” The third, Europe, is a space that Nietzsche wrote from and against, a space best approached through a postcolonial, transcritical reading.

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How to Cite

Wainwright, J. (2015). Nietzsche Contra the Real World. ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies, 9(1), 21–34. https://doi.org/10.14288/acme.v9i1.855