Embodiment and Subversion: Objections to Judith Butler's Nietzsche.

The article examines the significance of Nietzsche’s passage GM I 13 for Judith Butler’s work *Gender Trouble* (1990) and argues that Butler misunderstands this passage. While Butler interprets Nietzsche’s rejection of a fixed “perpetrator behind the deed” as liberation and unlimited self-transforma...

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Published in:	Nietzsche - Studien Vol. 55; no. 1; pp. 186 - 214
Main Author:	Messerschmidt, Mat
Format:	Article
Published:	De Gruyter 5/31/2026
Subjects:	Butler, Judith, 1956- Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900 Critical self-reflection Philosophers German philosophy Binary gender system Anthropologists Gender identity
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