The master’s thesis deals with the problem of the lack of discourse on Friedrich Nietzsche’s understanding of sexual difference, how that influenced his philosophy, and the issue of situating the sexual difference in the existing interpretations of his texts - or lack thereof. The thesis therefore makes a few steps past the standard analyses of Nietzsche’s perceived misogyny that remain on the level of unconstructive criticism, and moves towards the actual use of Nietzsche’s philosophy for understanding of his ideas about the woman, the sexual difference, and the ‘eternal war of the sexes’, and for their future independent development. As perspectivism shows, the active creating of the self and the will to power behind it is crucial for creating truths. This is the basis of the Overman theory, yet the component of sexual difference remains ignored. With the politics of personal name and the foucaultian understanding of ethics as care for the self and exercises in thinking, and with the inclusion of eternal recurrence as the imperative of eternalising the present, the thesis reaches the idea of Oversex, which is generated out of the genealogically located cracks in the standard understanding of male and female. I suggest Oversex as a spatial and conceptual expansion of androgyny (as a personal ideal of melting feminity and masculinity into humanity) into a functional political position with the goal of grounding our ways of being beyond the categorisations of sex, gender, and sex-gender.
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