ABSTRACT
The two themes I have claimed are necessary to an ethics of sexual difference, understood as the problematic of the constitution of one’s ethos, are: the itinerary of the social constitution of sexed bodies and the conditions for the production of sexed identity and difference. Both themes come together in Nietzsche’s ontology and his critiques of Christian, utilitarian and contractarian ethics. In the following reading of Nietzsche’s philosophy I will draw out these themes, not just as a critique of how ethics is usually undertaken, but also as a warning against that tendency discussed in the previous chapter: the tendency to move too quickly to the gift of dispersed identity by either announcing its arrival or by positing a solitary aesthetics of self.
