Nietzsche's Postmoralism

Nietzsche's Postmoralism

Author: Richard Schacht

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9780521640855

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An important collection of essays offering a full assessment of Nietzsche's contribution to philosophy, first published in 2000.


Nietzsche's Therapy

Nietzsche's Therapy

Author: Michael Ure

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9780739119969

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Nietzsche's Therapy explores the ethics of self-cultivation that Nietzsche forged in his middle works.


Nietzsche and Ethics

Nietzsche and Ethics

Author: Gudrun von Tevenar

Publisher: Peter Lang

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9783039110452

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The essays in this anthology are versions of papers originally presented at the 'Friedrich Nietzsche and Ethics' Conference conveyed by the Nietzsche Society in 2004 at the University of Sussex, Brighton, UK. Contributors are respected Nietzsche scholars from around the globe and their essays cover the full range of Nietzsche's moral thinking. They include papers on evolution and development, eudaemonia, art and morality, agon and transvaluation, will to power, as well as free will and genuine selfhood, immoralism, equality, sexual ethics, and the value of pity and compassion. These topics reflect the continuing and ever increasing interest in and relevance of Nietzsche's moral thinking and confirm Nietzsche's status as a moral philosopher of great importance.


Nietzsche's Machiavellian Politics

Nietzsche's Machiavellian Politics

Author: D. Dombowsky

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2004-02-27

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 0230000657

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In this exciting new study, Don Dombowsky proposes that the foundation of Nietzsche's political thought is the aristocratic liberal critique of democratic society. But he claims that Nietzsche radicalizes this critique through a Machiavellian conversion, based on a reading of The Prince , adapting Machiavellian virtù (the shaping capacity of the legislator), and immoralism (the techniques applied in political rule), and that, consequently, Nietzsche is better understood in relation to the political ideology of the neo-Machiavellian elite theorists of his own generation.


Nietzsche's Psychology of Ressentiment

Nietzsche's Psychology of Ressentiment

Author: Guy Elgat

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2017-03-31

Total Pages: 191

ISBN-13: 1351754440

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Ressentiment—the hateful desire for revenge—plays a pivotal role in Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of Morals. Ressentiment explains the formation of bad conscience, guilt, asceticism, and, most importantly, it motivates the "slave revolt" that gives rise to Western morality’s values. This book brings it sharply into focus and provides the first detailed examination of Nietzsche’s psychology of ressentiment. It shows how ressentiment, despite its blindness to justice, gives rise to moral justice—the central target of Nietzsche’s critique. The result provides a novel view of Nietzsche's moral psychology in the Genealogy, his critique of morality, and his views on justice.


Nietzsche's Great Politics

Nietzsche's Great Politics

Author: Hugo Drochon

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2018-04-03

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 0691180695

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"A superb case of deep intellectual renewal and the most important book to have been written about [Nietzsche] in the past few years."—Gavin Jacobson, New Statesman Nietzsche's impact on the world of culture, philosophy, and the arts is uncontested, but his political thought remains mired in controversy. By placing Nietzsche back in his late-nineteenth-century German context, Nietzsche's Great Politics moves away from the disputes surrounding Nietzsche's appropriation by the Nazis and challenges the use of the philosopher in postmodern democratic thought. Rather than starting with contemporary democratic theory or continental philosophy, Hugo Drochon argues that Nietzsche's political ideas must first be understood in light of Bismarck's policies, in particular his "Great Politics," which transformed the international politics of the late nineteenth century. Nietzsche's Great Politics shows how Nietzsche made Bismarck's notion his own, enabling him to offer a vision of a unified European political order that was to serve as a counterbalance to both Britain and Russia. This order was to be led by a "good European" cultural elite whose goal would be to encourage the rebirth of Greek high culture. In relocating Nietzsche's politics to their own time, the book offers not only a novel reading of the philosopher but also a more accurate picture of why his political thought remains so relevant today.


Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morality

Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morality

Author: David Owen

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-12-05

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 1317493222

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A landmark work of western philosophy, "On the Genealogy of Morality" is a dazzling and brilliantly incisive attack on European "morality". Combining philosophical acuity with psychological insight in prose of remarkable rhetorical power, Nietzsche takes up the task of offering us reasons to engage in a re-evaluation of our values. In this book, David Owen offers a reflective and insightful analysis of Nietzsche's text. He provides an account of how Nietzsche comes to the project of the re-evaluation of values; he shows how the development of Nietzsche's understanding of the requirements of this project lead him to acknowledge the need for the kind of investigation of "morality" that he terms "genealogy"; he elucidates the general structure and substantive arguments of Nietzsche's text, accounting for the rhetorical form of these arguments, and he debates the character of genealogy (as exemplified by Nietzsche's "Genealogy") as a form of critical enquiry. Owen argues that there is a specific development of Nietzsche's work from his earlier "Daybreak" (1881) and that in "Genealogy of Morality", Nietzsche is developing a critique of modes of agency and that this constitutes the most fundamental aspect of his demand for a revaluation of values. The book is a distinctive and significant contribution to our understanding of Nietzsche's great text.


Nietzsche's Animal Philosophy

Nietzsche's Animal Philosophy

Author: Vanessa Lemm

Publisher: Fordham Univ Press

Published: 2009-08-25

Total Pages: 483

ISBN-13: 0823230295

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“[Lemm] consolidates her reputation as one of Nietzsche’s most original, attentive, and lively readers.” —The Journal of Nietzsche Studies This book explores the significance of human animality in the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche, and provides the first systematic treatment of the animal theme in Nietzsche’s body of work. Vanessa Lemm argues that the animal is neither a random theme nor a metaphorical device in Nietzsche’s thought. Instead, it stands at the center of his renewal of the practice and meaning of philosophy itself. Lemm provides an original contribution to ongoing debates on the essence of humanism and its future. At the center of this new interpretation stands Nietzsche’s thesis that animal life and its potential for truth, history, and morality depends on a continuous antagonism between forgetfulness (animality) and memory (humanity). This relationship accounts for the emergence of humanity out of animality as a function of the antagonism between civilization and culture. By taking the antagonism of culture and civilization to be fundamental for Nietzsche’s conception of humanity and its becoming, Lemm gives a new entry point into the political significance of Nietzsche’s thought. The opposition between civilization and culture allows for the possibility that politics is more than a set of civilizational techniques that seek to manipulate, dominate, and exclude the animality of the human animal. By seeing the deep-seated connections of politics with culture, Nietzsche orients politics beyond the domination over life and, instead, offers the animality of the human being a positive, creative role in the organization of life. This book will appeal not only to those interested in Nietzsche, but to anyone interested in the theme of the animal in philosophy, literature, cultural studies, and the arts, as well as those interested in the relation between biological life and politics.


The Routledge Companion to Virtue Ethics

The Routledge Companion to Virtue Ethics

Author: Lorraine Besser-Jones

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-02-20

Total Pages: 906

ISBN-13: 1135096686

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Virtue ethics is on the move both in Anglo-American philosophy and in the rest of the world. This volume uniquely emphasizes non-Western varieties of virtue ethics at the same time that it includes work in the many different fields or areas of philosophy where virtue ethics has recently spread its wings. Just as significantly, several chapters make comparisons between virtue ethics and other ways of approaching ethics or political philosophy or show how virtue ethics can be applied to "real world" problems.


Nietzsche's Free Spirit Philosophy

Nietzsche's Free Spirit Philosophy

Author: Rebecca Bamford

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2015-09-29

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 1783482192

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This wide-ranging and inspiring volume of essays explores Nietzsche's philosophy of the free spirit. Nietzsche begins to articulate his philosophy of the free spirit in 1878 and it results in his most congenial books, including Human, all too Human, Dawn (or Daybreak), and The Gay Science. It is one of the most neglected aspects of Nietzsche's corpus, yet crucially important to an understanding of his work. Written by leading Nietzsche scholars from Europe and North America, the essays in this book explore topics such as: the kind of freedom practiced by the free spirit; the free spirit's relation to truth; the play between laughter and seriousness in the free spirit period texts; integrity and the free spirit; health and the free spirit; the free spirit and cosmopolitanism; and the figure of the free spirit in Nietzsche's later writings. This book fills a significant gap in the available literature and will set the agenda for future research in Nietzsche Studies.