Nietzsche's Noble Aims

Affirming Life, Contesting Modernity

Inbunden, Engelska, 2009

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This innovative volume presents an account of Nietzsche's claims about noble, life-affirming ways of life, analyzes the source of such claims, and explores the political vision that springs from them. Kirkland elucidates the meaning of Nietzsche's remarks about life-affirmation through an examination of his rhetorical identification with values, such as honesty, that he ultimately seeks to overcome. The book includes an extended treatment of the meaning and implications of Nietzsche's doctrine of eternal return, which uncovers how this element of his philosophy challenges both ungrounded metaphysical oppositions and reductionist accounts of human life. The result is an illuminating discussion of how through his philosophical confrontation with modernity Nietzsche aims to move his readers toward a noble embrace of life.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2009-07-16
Mått163 x 239 x 28 mm
Vikt592 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor306
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9780739127292

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Part 1 IntroductionChapter 2 1. Educating the Free SpiritChapter 3 2. Masks of HonestyChapter 4 3. Nobility and ResponsibilityChapter 5 4. The Esteeming AnimalChapter 6 5. Willing and TimeChapter 7 6. Redeeming Time: The Teaching of the Eternal ReturnChapter 8 7. Eternal Return and the Ethics of ContestChapter 9 8. Politics of ContestChapter 10 9. Heights of the Soul: Laughter and the Perspective of LifeChapter 11 10. Challenging the Old and New Tablets: Nietzsche's Art of WritingPart 12 Conclusion

Paul Kirkland gives an impressively comprehensive and illuminating account of Nietzsche's thought, emphasizing its life-affirming goals more than the critique of traditional metaphysics and modern science. Kirkland argues that in his major works Nietzsche takes on a set of distinctive stances or rhetorical "masks"—the free spirit, the proponent of perspectivism, and the philosopher of the eternal return—to create a "politics of contest." Out of that contest, Nietzsche hopes that a new form and understanding of human nobility will arise.