Derrida's, Heidegger's Nietzsche and woman

Abstract

I prefer the form of seduction, which maintains the hypothesis of an enigmatic duel, of a violent solicitation or attraction, which is a form not of response, but of challenge, of a secret distance and perpetual antagonism that allows the playing out of a rule - I prefer this form and its pathos of distance to that of love and its pathetic rapprochement. I prefer the dual form of seduction to the universal form of love. - JEAN BAUDRILLARD, Fatal Strategies Mentre, quasi svanito, cadevo sul corpo a cui mi era unito, capii in un ultimo soffio di vitalita che la fiamma consiste di una splendida chiarezza, di un insito vigore e di un igneo ardore, ma la splendida chiarezza la possiede affinche riluca e l 'igneo ardore affinche bruci. Pai capii l 'abisso, e gli abissi ulteriori che esso invocava. - UMBERTO ECO, ll Nome della Rosa Unconcerned, mocking, violent - thus wisdom wants us: she is a woman and always loves only a warrior. - THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA, 'On Reading and Writing' ... and in af-firming/successfully erecting her will, I shall achieve things whose value is greater than that of the blood spilt in the contest. I will advance and conquer; stupefying my interlocutors with the sudden flash of betrayal (must I not turn one and all - all the world - into enemy- the world itself transformed into battle-field and battle-front, the fought-within and the fought-against?). Heroically, my readings will cut neatly at the edges of innumerable texts/textures as so many chunks of flesh. With whole body, soul and spirit - but in utter consequential indifference: thus, unconcerned, mocking, violent. Yes, her will shall be my drive, and my will shall be her sword. [...]