Nietzsche As Metaphysician

Author : Justin Remhof
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000737264

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This book defends the controversial view that Nietzsche is a metaphysician against a long-standing tendency to sever Nietzsche from metaphysical philosophy. Remhof presents a metametaphysical treatment of Nietzsche’s writings to show that for Nietzsche the questions, answers, methods, and subject matters of metaphysical philosophy are not only perfectly legitimate, but also crucial for understanding the world and our place within it. The book examines aspects of Nietzsche’s thought that have received little attention in the literature, including his view of what makes metaphysics possible; his metaphysics of science; his naturalized metaphysics; how he appeals to the intuitions of readers; how he employs a priori reasoning; how he uses metaphysical grounding explanations; and how metaphysics is intertwined with topics central to his philosophical thinking, including his understanding of becoming, ethics, nihilism, life, perspective, amor fati, and eternal recurrence. Nietzsche as Metaphysician will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working on Nietzsche and the history of metaphysics.

Author : Peter Poellner
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0198250630

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Nietzsche and Metaphysics by Peter Poellner Pdf

Peter Poellner offers a comprehensive interpretation and a detailed critical assessment of Nietzsche's later ideas on epistemology and metaphysics, drawing on his published works and his largely unpublished voluminous notebooks.

Author : Michel Haar
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1996-02-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438405285

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Nietzsche and Metaphysics by Michel Haar Pdf

Michel Haar assesses the overcoming of metaphysics urged by Nietzsche. He probes tensions usually acknowledged without further questioning, and he probes discrepancies. Haar points out that Nietzsche's overcoming must be conceived as a task both critical and reconstructive. Instead of indulging in the deconstructionist intertextual obsession with idiosyncratic "traces," Haar shows how Nietzsche criticizes philosophical concepts as being traceable to a process of simplification and identification thus subverting traditional categories and identities. Haar presents Nietzsche as an aesthetic stoic. Although opposed to any doctrinal tenet, Nietzsche rekindles a Stoic return to nature in the register of a creative and aesthetic decision. Necessity is no longer a single rational force permeating all beings. Instead he conceives of the will to power as a schematization of the natural chaos and refers Dionysos to an inspiring voice: "the genius of the heart." Rejecting the Deleuzian essay of interpretation that unleashes the simulacra of an untamed imagination, Haar points out that Nietzsche's rejection of Kant is much less extreme than imagined in Deleuze's eccentric readings. Haar also shows that the rupture with Schopenhauer came very early in Nietzsche's itinerary although he accepted the idea of a social conditioning of science. Haar shows that two Apollonian sublimities are distinguished by Nietzsche: one generating idyll, epos, and mythic language; the other a compensatory illusion on the dramatic stage destined to dismiss the horror of an endlessly swelling ground. It is this monstrosity that a creative forgetfulness is destined to replace by seeking a place for the work of art amidst tragic joy.

Author : Friedrich Nietzsche
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9788026876250

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THE GAY SCIENCE – Nietzsche's Forging Metaphysical Thought by Friedrich Nietzsche Pdf

"A bad conscience is easier to cope with than a bad reputation.” "Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity. For the crowd believes that if it cannot see to the bottom of something it must be profound. It is so timid and dislikes going into the water.” (Excerpt) In "The Gay Science or, The Joyful Wisdom,” Nietzsche experiments with the notion of power. The book contains Nietzsche's first consideration of the idea of the eternal recurrence, a concept which would become critical in his next work Thus Spoke Zarathustra and underpins much of the later works. The book's title uses a phrase that was well known at the time. It was derived from a Provençal expression (gai saber) for the technical skill required for poetry-writing that had already been used by Ralph Waldo Emerson and E. S. Dallas... Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) was a German philosopher, poet, and Latin and Greek scholar whose work has exerted a profound influence on Western philosophy and modern intellectual history. Because of Nietzsche's evocative style and provocative ideas, his philosophy generates passionate reactions. His works remain controversial, due to varying interpretations and misinterpretations of his work. In the Western philosophy tradition, Nietzsche's writings have been described as the unique case of free revolutionary thought, that is, revolutionary in its structure and problems, although not tied to any revolutionary project.

Author : Richard White
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351725705

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Nietzsche by Richard White Pdf

This title was first published in 2002: Nietzsche described himself as a godless anti-metaphysician. These writings encourage the student to question any reading that fails to address Nietzsche's sense of irony with respect to his own philosophical claims. The anthology includes the best recent writings on Nietzsche. It covers all the main themes of Nietzsche's philosophy and pays particular attention to Nietzsche's discussion of value and the need for a re-evaluation of values; his critique of metaphysics and the problem of knowledge; and his account of art and politics.

Author : Wolfgang Müller-Lauter
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0252067584

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Nietzsche by Wolfgang Müller-Lauter Pdf

This is the first translation into English of a milestone in Nietzsche interpretation. Wolfgang Müller-Lauter examines Nietzsche's doctrines of the will to power and the overman in light of Nietzsche's philosophy of real contradictions. He shows that Nietzsche's vision of inherently contradictory "wills to power" is the source of irresolvable contradictions in his philosophy. Müller-Lauter has remained at the forefront of German Nietzsche studies throughout the quarter century since this book first appeared. This long-awaited translation, containing two substantial subsequent essays, is a major addition to the English-language Nietzsche literature

Author : Tsarina Doyle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781108417280

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Nietzsche's Metaphysics of the Will to Power by Tsarina Doyle Pdf

Presents a fresh interpretation of Nietzsche's controversial account of nature and value in relation to Kant and Hume.

Author : Nuno Nabais
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2006-11-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781441107367

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Nietzsche & the Metaphysics of the Tragic by Nuno Nabais Pdf

This book is a concise and historicized analysis of the development of Nietzsche's thought on the subject of tragedy.

Author : R.L. Howey
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401024433

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Heidegger and Jaspers on Nietzsche by R.L. Howey Pdf

GENERAL PROBLEMS IN NIETZSCHE INTERPRETATION Every philosopher presents special problems of interpretation. With Nietzsche these problems are especially crucial. The very richness of Nietzsche's thought and expression becomes a trap for the incautious or imaginative mind. Perhaps the greatest temptation for the in terpreter of Nietzsche is to attempt to "systematize" his thought into a consistent whole. Any such attempt necessarily results in distortion, for there is a fluidity in Nietzsche's thought which does not lend itself to strict categorization. This is not to deny that there are certain organic patterns in his philosophy. These patterns emerge, however, as Jaspers correctly insists, only upon careful, critical comparison of pertinent passages drawn from the entire corpus of Nietzsche's works. No single passage can be taken as a definitive statement of Nietzsche's views of any particular subject. Frequently, by presenting two or three especially relevant quotations from the author being considered, the correctness of his interpretation. With Nietz a critic can support sche, however, such a procedure is inadequate, for in many cases other passages can be found which will support an alternative, if not oppo site, interpretation. Nor is this difficulty alleviated by vast compi lations of relevant passages, for then one could gain just as much, and quite likely more, from re-reading Nietzsche's works themselves.

Author : Babette Babich,Robert S. Cohen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1999-08-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0792357426

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Nietzsche, Theories of Knowledge, and Critical Theory by Babette Babich,Robert S. Cohen Pdf

Nietzsche, Theories of Knowledge, and Critical Theory, the first volume of a two-volume book collection on Nietzsche and the Sciences, ranges from reviews of Nietzsche and the wide variety of epistemic traditions - not only pre-Socratic, but Cartesian, Leibnizian, Kantian, and post-Kantian -through essays on Nietzsche's critique of knowledge via his critique of grammar and modern culture, and culminates in an extended section on the dynamic of Nietzsche's critical philosophy seen from the perspective of Habermas and critical theory. This volume features a first-time English translation of Habermas's afterword to his own German-language collection of Nietzsche's Epistemological Writings.

Author : Gianni Vattimo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0231132417

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Dialogue with Nietzsche by Gianni Vattimo Pdf

For more than forty years, Gianni Vattimo, one of Europe's most important and influential philosophers, has been a leading participant in the postwar turn that has brought Nietzsche back to the center of philosophical enquiry. In this collection of his essays on the subject, which is a dialogue both with Nietzsche and with the Nietzschean tradition, Vattimo explores the German philosopher's most important works and discusses his views on the Ubermensch, time, history, truth, hermeneutics, ethics, and aesthetics. He also presents a different, more "Italian" Nietzsche, one that diverges from German and French characterizations. Many contemporary French and poststructuralist philosophers offer literary or aesthetic readings of Nietzsche's work that downplay its political import. Shaped by the revolutionary tradition of 1968, Vattimo's interpretations take Nietzsche seriously as a political philosopher and argue for and defend his relevance to projects for social and political change. He emphasizes the hermeneutic aspect of Nietzsche's philosophy, characterizing the Nietzschean project as a political hermeneutics. Vattimo also grapples with Heidegger, a philosopher who has had a profound influence on the interpretation and understanding of Nietzsche. Vattimo examines Heidegger's philosophy through its complex relationship to Nietzsche's, and he produces a Heideggerian understanding of Nietzsche that paradoxically goes against Heidegger's own readings of Nietzsche's work. Heidegger believed Nietzsche was the ultimate metaphysician; Vattimo sees him as the founder of postmetaphysical philosophy. Throughout these essays, Vattimo draws on and quotes extensively from fragments in Nietzsche's notebooks, many of which have never before been translated into English. His writing is clear, elegant, and accessible, and, for the first time, Vattimo's own intellectual developments, shifts, and continuities can be clearly discerned. The loyal testimony and unique perspective in Dialogue with Nietzsche makes a convincing case for another orientation in Nietzsche scholarship.

Author : Rex Welshon
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 077352777X

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The Philosophy of Nietzsche by Rex Welshon Pdf

Author : Harry J. Ausmus
Publisher : Edwin Mellen Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Metaphysics
ISBN : NWU:35556027032580

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A Schopenhauerian Critique of Nietzsche's Thought by Harry J. Ausmus Pdf

This study seeks to demonstrate that what is positive in Nietzsche's thought was already more clearly expressed in Schopenhauer's philosophy, and that what is questionable was already criticized. It also demonstrates the religiosity of Nietzsche's thought, a secularized form of certain aspects of Christian theology, which leads to an elevation of psychology over metaphysics, lending support to a trend that has dominated much of 20th-century thought. The book calls for a diminution in the importance of psychology, and recommends that metaphysics be re-established in its rightful position by starting over with the philosophy of Schopenhauer. The first part deals with major problems in Nietzsche's thought, such as that of causation, the relationship of Church and State, morality and power, and suffering.

Author : Stephen Houlgate
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2004-01-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521892791

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Hegel, Nietzsche and the Criticism of Metaphysics by Stephen Houlgate Pdf

This study of Hegel and Nietzsche evaluates and compares their work through their common criticism of the metaphysics for operating with conceptual oppositions such as being/becoming and egoism/altruism. Dr Houlgate exposes Nietzsche's critique as employing the distinction of Life and Thought, which itself constitutes a metaphysical dualism of the kind Nietzsche attacks. By comparison Hegel is shown to provide a more profound critique of metaphysical dualism by applying his philosophy of the dialectic, which sees such alleged opposites as defining components of a dynamic. In choosing to study a theme so fundamental to both philosophers' work, Houlgate has established a framework within which to evaluate the Hegel-Nietzsche debate; to make the first full study of Nietzsche's view of Hegel's work; and to compare Nietzsche's Dionysic philosophy with Hegel's dialectical philosophy by focusing on tragedy, a subject central to the philosophy of both.

Author : Peter Poellner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Metaphysics
ISBN : 0191598259

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Nietzsche and Metaphysics by Peter Poellner Pdf

Peter Poellner offers a comprehensive interpretation and a detailed critical assessment of Nietzsche's later ideas on epistemology and metaphysics, drawing on his published works and his largely unpublished voluminous notebooks.