... In this chapter, I look at two texts that epitomize the Nietzschean subject—and hence misinterpellated subects-- that I examine in chapter 4. In the chapter I argue that Bartleby, far from being passive and a nonagent, is actually the only true agent in the story. Everyone else is following...

... cosmopolitics empowerment “Bartleby, the Scrivener” political technique ...

... Herman Melville Bartleby Virginia Woolf Mrs. Ramsay Lily Briscoe ...

... of political technique is proposed as a way to acknowledge the artifices required in doing politics. Herman Melville's celebrated scrivener Bartleby is proposed as a figure of the “idiot,” as implied by cosmopolitical matters of concern, but it is the narrator of the tale, the lawyer, who is focused on here...

... Nietzsche anarchism messianism Zarathustra failure subjectivity In this chapter, I look at two texts that epitomize the Nietzschean subject—and hence misinterpellated subects-- that I examine in chapter 4. In the chapter I argue that Bartleby, far from being passive and a nonagent, is actually...

... and rehearses notable instances of Žižek’s reliance on literary texts to illustrate key concepts of Lacanian psychoanalysis and German Idealism—texts that include, among others, William Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Richard II , Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s Frankenstein , Herman Melville’s “Bartleby...