This paper engages in a critical discussion with Christa Davis Acamporaconcerning Nietzsche’s concept of the agon. It takes issue with the “meaning-making”model of the agon developed in her book Co...Show moreThis paper engages in a critical discussion with Christa Davis Acamporaconcerning Nietzsche’s concept of the agon. It takes issue with the “meaning-making”model of the agon developed in her book Contesting Nietzsche, the typology fordistinguishing productive agonal confl ict from destructive confl ict, and its applicationto the Apollinian-Dionysian relation in GT and to Nietzsche’s critique of Socrates.Acampora’s model, it is argued, modernises and soft ens Nietzsche’s agon by takingout the moment of negation, disempowerment, or critical opposition that belongstogether with reciprocal affi rmation or stimulation in agonal interaction.Keywords: Agon, Wettkampf, Vernichtungskampf, Homer, Socrates, Apollinian / Dionysian,dialectic.Zusammenfassung: Der Beitrag tritt in eine kritische Diskussion mit Christa DavisAcampora uber Nietzsches Begriff des Agon ein. Er befasst sich mit dem ,sinngebenden‘Modell des Agon, das sie in ihrem Buch Contesting Nietzsche entwickelt, ihrertypologischen Unterscheidung des produktiven agonalen vom destruktiven Konfliktund deren Anwendung auf die Relation des Apollinischen und Dionysischen in GTund auf Nietzsches Sokrates-Kritik. Acamporas Model, so die These, passt NietzschesAgon dem heutigen Geschmack an, zeichnet ihn weich, indem sie das Moment derNegation, Entmachtung, kritischen Gegenstellung herausnimmt, das ebenso wiegegenseitige Bejahung oder Reizung zur agonalen Interaktion gehort.Schlagwörter: Agon, Wettkampf, Vernichtungskampf, Homer, Sokrates, apollinisch /dionysisch, Dialektik. Show less
The Other Poet is a doctoral thesis exploring the role of Hesiod in the ancient imagination. Its central question is concerned with the way that Hesiod was given shape in the collective memory of... Show moreThe Other Poet is a doctoral thesis exploring the role of Hesiod in the ancient imagination. Its central question is concerned with the way that Hesiod was given shape in the collective memory of the Greeks. This study thus deals with the processes of remembering and forgetting that created his image, with its meaning and relevance to Greek identity, and more particularly with the different manifestations of his image in Greek literature. It is one of the main tenets of this book that Hesiod\'s image was to a large degree formed by the ancient picture of Homer: Hesiod is decidedly different when presented as allied with, opposed to or simply without Homer. Within this specific framework, this thesis conceives and investigates Hesiod as a concept in later literary-critical discourse, as a locus that was informed with values and qualities, and more generally as a cultural and panhellenic icon constructed and reconstructed by later Greek authors who employed and so re-created him in their own texts. Show less
