Nietzsche's Aesthetics

Educated at the universities of York (BA) and Cambridge (PhD), Aaron Ridley has taught at UCNW Bangor, Ithaca College, NY, and, since 1994, the University of Southampton, where he is Professor of Philosophy. His chief research interests are aesthetics, especially musical aesthetics, and the thought of Friedrich Nietzsche, and his books include Music, Value and the Passions (1995), Nietzsche's Conscience: Six Character Studies from the 'Genealogy' (1998), The Philosophy of Music: Theme and Variations (2004), Nietzsche on Art (2007), The Deed is Everything: Nietzsche on Will and Action (2018), and Singularities: Essays in Aesthetics (2024).

• 1: Nietzsche and the Arts of Life2: Why Goethe Can't Be Faust3: The Problem of the Actor4: Nietzsche on Tragedy: First and Last Thoughts5: Apollo and Socrates6: Art as the Good Will to Appearance7: Une Promesse de Bonheur?8: A Brief History of the Sublime9: Art and Ordinary Language10: Nietzsche and Music11: Tristan without Tristan12: The Sorrows and Grandeur of Friedrich Nietzsche13: Delius's Zarathustra14: Sketchbooks of Genius15: Nietzsche, Nature, Nurture16: Artistic Necessity17: Marching to Different Drums?18: Nietzsche's Aesthetic AffirmationsConclusion