Books by Henry Staten

John, certain troubadours, and Milton offer glimpses of a more affirmative relation to "eros in mourning."

Traces the development of critical moral psychology in the central novels of the Brontes and George Eliot This book explains how, under the influence of the new 'mental materialism' that held sway in mid-Victorian scientific and medical thought, the Bronts and George Eliot in their greatest novels broached a radical new form of novelistic moral psychology. This was one no longer bound by the idealizing presuppositions of traditional Christian moral ideology, and, as Henry Staten argues, is closely related to Nietzsche's physiological theory of will to power (itself directly influenced by Herbert Spencer). On this reading, Staten suggests, the Bronts and George Eliot participate, with Flaubert, Baudelaire, and Nietzsche, in the beginnings of the modernist turn toward a strictly naturalistic moral psychology, one that is 'non-moral' or 'post-moral'.

Examines Aristotle, Kant, and especially Husserl to bring to light Derrida's development of the classical philosophical concepts of form (eidos), verbal formula (logos), the object-in-general, and time. This book also examines the later work of Wittgenstein in detail and Wittgenstein's 'zigzag' writing in the "Philosophical Investigations".

Henry Staten adopts an innovative "psychodialectical" approach to Nietzsche, drawn from Nietzsche's own doctrine that philosophical thought is governed by drives and instincts that-for Nietzsche as for Freud-are fundamentally sexual in nature. Staten...