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Author |
: John Richardson |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 301 |
Release |
: 2004-10-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780195171037 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0195171039 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
Synopsis Nietzsche's New Darwinism by : John Richardson
Nietzsche wrote in a scientific culture transformed by Darwin, yet most of what he said about Darwin was hostile. In this text, John Richardson argues that Nietzsche was in fact deeply and pervasively influenced by Darwin.
Author |
: John Richardson |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 301 |
Release |
: 2004-10-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780198038184 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0198038186 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (84 Downloads) |
Synopsis Nietzsche's New Darwinism by : John Richardson
Nietzsche wrote in a scientific culture transformed by Darwin. He read extensively in German and British Darwinists, and his own works dealt often with such obvious Darwinian themes as struggle and evolution. Yet most of what Nietzsche said about Darwin was hostile: he sharply attacked many of his ideas, and often slurred Darwin himself as "mediocre." So most readers of Nietzsche have inferred that he must have cast Darwin quite aside. But in fact, John Richardson argues, Nietzsche was deeply and pervasively influenced by Darwin. He stressed his disagreements, but was silent about several core points he took over from Darwin. Moreover, Richardson claims, these Darwinian borrowings were to Nietzsche's credit: when we bring them to the surface we discover his positions to be much stronger than we had thought. Even Nietzsche's radical innovations are more plausible when we expose their Darwinian ground; we see that they amount to a "new Darwinism." The book's four chapters show how four of Nietzsche's most problematic ideas benefit from this Darwinian setting. These are: his claim that life is "will to power," his insistence that his values are "higher" yet also "just his," his disturbing ethics of selfishness and politics of inequality, and his elevation of aesthetic over moral values. Richardson argues that each of these Nietzschean ideas has a clearer and stronger sense when set on the scientific ground he takes from Darwin.
Author |
: Dirk R. Johnson |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: |
Release |
: 2010-08-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781139490399 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1139490397 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (99 Downloads) |
Synopsis Nietzsche's Anti-Darwinism by : Dirk R. Johnson
Friedrich Nietzsche's complex connection to Charles Darwin has been much explored, and both scholarly and popular opinions have tended to assume a convergence in their thinking. In this study, Dirk Johnson challenges that assumption and takes seriously Nietzsche's own explicitly stated 'anti-Darwinism'. He argues for the importance of Darwin for the development of Nietzsche's philosophy, but he places emphasis on the antagonistic character of their relationship and suggests that Nietzsche's mature critique against Darwin represents the key to understanding his broader (anti-)Darwinian position. He also offers an original reinterpretation of the Genealogy of Morals, a text long considered sympathetic to Darwinian naturalism, but which he argues should be taken as Nietzsche's most sophisticated critique of both Darwin and his followers. His book will appeal to all who are interested in the philosophy of Nietzsche and its cultural context.
Author |
: John Richardson |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 567 |
Release |
: 2020 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780190098230 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0190098236 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (30 Downloads) |
Synopsis Nietzsche's Values by : John Richardson
"The book gives a uniquely comprehensive philosophical analysis of Nietzsche's thinking. It shows how this thinking has its unifying focus on values--both the past and prevailing values that his psychologies and genealogies explain, and the new values that he himself creates and defends. It maps, in detail, the argumentative structure of his thinking as it bears on this central topic. It argues that his ultimate ambition is to show how we can incorporate the truth about values into our own valuing-and that he is therefore more deeply committed to truth than often supposed. The book's chapters examine twelve key concepts, each at the heart of a network of problems and ideas. A first group of concepts (value, life, drives, affects) treat the bodily valuing he attributes to our drives and affects; a second group (human, words, nihilism, freedom) treat the valuing we carry out in our deeply-flawed conception of ourselves as moral agents; the third group (the Yes, self, creating, Dionysus) project the values he offers as the lesson of his critiques--values centered on a universal affirmation expressed in the idea of eternal return. Each chapter organizes the rich complexity of Nietzsche's thought on its topic, and works to resolve contradictions, often by showing how he treats the concepts and problems as historical. The book synthesizes these detailed analyses into a systematic picture of his thought"--
Author |
: Peter J. Woodford |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 195 |
Release |
: 2018-03-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226539928 |
ISBN-13 |
: 022653992X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (28 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Moral Meaning of Nature by : Peter J. Woodford
What, if anything, does biological evolution tell us about the nature of religion, ethical values, or even the meaning and purpose of life? The Moral Meaning of Nature sheds new light on these enduring questions by examining the significance of an earlier—and unjustly neglected—discussion of Darwin in late nineteenth-century Germany. We start with Friedrich Nietzsche, whose writings staged one of the first confrontations with the Christian tradition using the resources of Darwinian thought. The lebensphilosophie, or “life-philosophy,” that arose from his engagement with evolutionary ideas drew responses from other influential thinkers, including Franz Overbeck, Georg Simmel, and Heinrich Rickert. These critics all offered cogent challenges to Nietzsche’s appropriation of the newly transforming biological sciences, his negotiation between science and religion, and his interpretation of the implications of Darwinian thought. They also each proposed alternative ways of making sense of Nietzsche’s unique question concerning the meaning of biological evolution “for life.” At the heart of the discussion were debates about the relation of facts and values, the place of divine purpose in the understanding of nonhuman and human agency, the concept of life, and the question of whether the sciences could offer resources to satisfy the human urge to discover sources of value in biological processes. The Moral Meaning of Nature focuses on the historical background of these questions, exposing the complex ways in which they recur in contemporary philosophical debate.
Author |
: John Richardson |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 329 |
Release |
: 1996 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780195098464 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0195098463 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (64 Downloads) |
Synopsis Nietzsche's System by : John Richardson
This book challenges the popular recent view of Nietzsche as an anti-systematic, anti-traditional thinker, and argues that his work is in fact highly systematic, and therefore congruent with the main traditions of western philosophy.
Author |
: Laurence Lampert |
Publisher |
: Yale University Press |
Total Pages |
: 332 |
Release |
: 2008-10-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780300128833 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0300128835 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (33 Downloads) |
Synopsis Nietzsche's Task by : Laurence Lampert
When Nietzsche published Beyond Good and Evil in 1886, he told a friend that it was a book that would not be read properly until “around the year 2000.” Now Laurence Lampert sets out to fulfill this prophecy by providing a section by section interpretation of this philosophical masterpiece that emphasizes its unity and depth as a comprehensive new teaching on nature and humanity. According to Lampert, Nietzsche begins with a critique of philosophy that is ultimately affirmative, because it shows how philosophy can arrive at a defensible ontological account of the way of all beings. Nietzsche next argues that a new post-Christian religion can arise out of the affirmation of the world disclosed to philosophy. Then, turning to the implications of the new ontology for morality and politics, Nietzsche argues that these can be reconstituted on the fundamental insights of the new philosophy. Nietzsche’s comprehensive depiction of this anti-Platonic philosophy ends with a chapter on nobility, in which he contends that what can now be publicly celebrated as noble in our species are its highest achievements of mind and spirit.
Author |
: Ken Gemes |
Publisher |
: Oxford Handbooks |
Total Pages |
: 809 |
Release |
: 2013-09-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199534647 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199534640 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Nietzsche by : Ken Gemes
An international team of scholars offer a broad engagement with the thought of Friedrich Nietzsche. They discuss the main topics of his philosophy, under the headings of values, epistemology and metaphysics, and will to power. Other sections are devoted to his life, his relations to other philosophers, and his individual works.
Author |
: Brian Lightbody |
Publisher |
: Lexington Books |
Total Pages |
: 231 |
Release |
: 2017-01-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781498515788 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1498515789 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (88 Downloads) |
Synopsis Nietzsche's Will to Power Naturalized by : Brian Lightbody
“The world viewed from the inside, the world defined and determined according to its “intelligible character”––it would be “will to power” and nothing else.” Cryptic passages like this one from section 36 of Beyond Good and Evil have been the source of much intrigue, speculation, and puzzlement in the Nietzschean secondary literature. This passage in particular along with many others, have sparked a slew of questions in recent decades such as: “What is the will to power? “Is will to power a metaphysical principle?” “Is it an empirical assertion?” “Or, is will to power merely a hypothesis that Nietzsche himself rejected?” Although asked ad nausea inthe literature, the multitude of answers given to the above questions never seem to satisfy. In this book, Brian Lightbody shed light on Nietzsche’s most famous “esoteric” teaching by explaining what the will to power is and what it denotes. He then demonstrates how will to power may be naturalized in an attempt to show that the doctrine is epistemically and empirically defensible. Finally, he uses will to power as a philological key of sorts to unlock Nietzsche’s philosophy as a whole by showing that his ontology, epistemology, and ethics are only properly understood once a coherent naturalized rendering of will to power is produced.
Author |
: Dan Stone |
Publisher |
: Liverpool University Press |
Total Pages |
: 214 |
Release |
: 2002-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0853239975 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780853239970 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (75 Downloads) |
Synopsis Breeding Superman by : Dan Stone
Elizabeth A. Kaye specializes in communications as part of her coaching and consulting practice. She has edited Requirements for Certification since the 2000-01 edition.