Thomas Mann and Friedrich Nietzsche: Eroticism, Death, Music, and Laughter

Product Description
This book traces in critical detail how Thomas Mann labors ambivalently on his own political artistry under the shadow of Friedrich Nietzsche's writings. Following the recurrent Nietzschean themes of eroticism, death, music, and laughter, this original study arrives at a revealing picture of how Mann takes up yet discontinues Nietzsche's poetic heritage.
About the Author
Caroline Joan (“Kay”) S. Picart was born in 1966, and is married to Davis William Houck. Currently she is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy, St. Lawrence University, 1999-. Prior to that, she was with the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, 1997-1999. Before then, she was with the Division of Arts and Humanities, College of Liberal Arts, Florida Atlantic University, 1996-1997. She worked as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) Instructor at the Yonsei University Foreign Language Center, Seoul, South Korea, 1991-1992; and was a University Lecturer in Zoology, Philosophy, and Astrophysics at the Ateneo de Manila and the San Carlos Pastoral Foundation, the Philippines, 1987-1989. For her Ph.D., she specialized in Social and Political Philosophy, with minors in Comparative Literature, and in Aesthetics, Critical Theory and Literary Criticism, from the Department of Philosophy, The Pennsylvania State University, 1993-1996. She finished her M.Phil. in History and Philosophy of Science as the Wolfson Prize Awardee in 1991, and Sir Run Run Shaw Scholar, from 1989-1991, at Cambridge University, England. She graduated with an M.A. with distinction in Philosophy, 1987-1989, and a B.S. in Biology,
magna cum laude, 1983-1987, at the Ateneo de Manila, the Philippines. Picart’s forthcoming books include
Resentment and “the Feminine” in Nietzsche’s Politico-Aesthetics, The Pennsylvania State University Press, and
The Rebirths of Frankenstein, University of Texas Press. She has published articles and book chapters in aesthetics, philosophy and sociology of science, social and political philosophy, feminism and philosophy, philosophy and multiculturalism, Nietzsche studies, and phenomenology. Picart is also an artist, a journalist, and an enthusiast of ballroom dancing. Her art has been exhibited in South Korea, the Philippines, and many parts of the United States. Her articles have been published by two newspapers in Seoul, South Korea, as well as by three newspapers and
Filipinas Magazine in the United States. Recently, she was awarded grants from the Institute on Race and Ethnicity, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and the Office of University Research, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, to produce videos linking her art with her journalistic and auto-ethnographic writing. She founded and taught ballroom classes with the International Dance Club in South Korea in 1993, and began participating in ballroom competitions in 1998.