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    Category: Barry Stocker

    • Is Nietzsche’s Birth of Tragedy about the Birth of the Novel?

      Nietzsche describes the 'birth of tragedy' twice over in The Birth of Tragedy (amongst other things this book is surely one of the most spectacular academic career suicides ever, killing off Nietzsche's position as the rising star of classical philology in German speaking universities, which earned him his precocious chair at Basel), first in the widely read…

    • Foucault 20th Century Viconian

      How Michel Foucault picked up themes and arguments from GiambVico.

    • The Importance of Michel de Montaigne, or the Paradox of an Underrated Classic

      I’ve been teaching and studying Montaigne this semester with an intensity I’ve never undertaken before, though I have dipped into Montaigne previously to teach on friendship, and on skepticism in moral and epistemic contexts. Working right through the Essays  for the first time, I’ve discovered far more about Montaigne, the themes of his work, and…

    • Germanic and Carthaginian Republicanism

      Philosophical discussion of liberty and republicanism going back at least as far as Philip Pettit’s Republicanism (1997) have very much revolved around antiquity, when considering a historical dimension. We can take this back to Hannah Arendt’s work on Athenian liberty, which is not as nostalgic and uncritical as some claim, but certainly takes Athens as…