Nietzsche Biology And Metaphor

Author : Gregory Moore
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2002-01-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139432948

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Nietzsche, Biology and Metaphor by Gregory Moore Pdf

Nietzsche, Biology and Metaphor explores the German philosopher's response to the intellectual debates sparked by the publication of Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species. By examining the abundance of biological metaphors in Nietzsche's writings, Gregory Moore questions his recent reputation as an eminently subversive and (post-) modern thinker, and shows how deeply Nietzsche was immersed in late nineteenth-century debates on evolution, degeneration and race. The first part of the book provides a detailed study and interpretation of Nietzsche's much disputed relationship to Darwinism. Uniquely, Moore also considers the importance of Nietzsche's evolutionary perspective for the development of his moral and aesthetic philosophy. The second part analyzes key themes of Nietzsche's cultural criticism - his attack on the Judaeo-Christian tradition, his diagnosis of the nihilistic crisis afflicting modernity and his anti-Wagnerian polemics - against the background of fin-de-siècle fears about the imminent biological collapse of Western civilization.

Author : Gregory Moore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 051104528X

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Nietzsche, Biology, and Metaphor by Gregory Moore Pdf

Author : Tim Murphy
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2001-10-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0791450880

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Nietzsche, Metaphor, Religion by Tim Murphy Pdf

Presents a radically anti-foundationalist reading of Nietzsche's philosophy of religion.

Author : C. Schotten
Publisher : Springer
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230623224

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Nietzsche's Revolution by C. Schotten Pdf

This book claims Nietzsche as a leftist revolutionary but without overlooking the conservative and retrogressive elements of his political philosophy. The author argues that these two 'halves' of his philosophy help construct a new form of politics for contemporary readers, a possibility of revolution post-Marx.

Author : Brian Lightbody
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781498515788

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Nietzsche's Will to Power Naturalized by Brian Lightbody Pdf

“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 in the 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 : Vanessa Lemm
Publisher : Fordham University Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780823262892

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Nietzsche and the Becoming of Life by Vanessa Lemm Pdf

Throughout his writing career Nietzsche advocated the affirmation of earthly life as a way to counteract nihilism and asceticism. This volume takes stock of the complexities and wide-ranging perspectives that Nietzsche brings to bear on the problem of life’s becoming on Earth by engaging various interpretative paradigms reaching from existentialist to Darwinist readings of Nietzsche. In an age in which the biological sciences claim to have unlocked the deepest secrets and codes of life, the essays in this volume propose a more skeptical view. Life is both what is closest and what is furthest from us, because life experiments through us as much as we experiment with it, because life keeps our thinking and our habits always moving, in a state of recurring nomadism. Nietzsche’s philosophy is perhaps the clearest expression of the antinomy contained in the idea of “studying” life and in the Socratic ideal of an “examined” life and remains a deep source of wisdom about living.

Author : Tsarina Doyle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 55,8 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 : John Richardson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2004-10-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199883653

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Nietzsche's New Darwinism by John Richardson Pdf

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 : Clive Cazeaux
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2007-09-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134347803

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Metaphor and Continental Philosophy by Clive Cazeaux Pdf

Over the last few decades there has been a phenomenal growth of interest in metaphor as a device which extends or revises our perception of the world. Clive Cazeaux examines the relationship between metaphor, art and science, against the backdrop of modern European philosophy and, in particular, the work of Kant, Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty. He contextualizes recent theories of the cognitive potential of metaphor within modern European philosophy and explores the impact which the notion of cognitive metaphor has on key positions and concepts within aesthetics, epistemology and the philosophy of science.

Author : Dirk R. Johnson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010-08-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139490399

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Nietzsche's Anti-Darwinism by Dirk R. Johnson Pdf

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 : Michael R. Trimble
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-22
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780199693184

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Why Humans Like to Cry by Michael R. Trimble Pdf

Human beings are the only species to have evolved the trait of emotional crying. We even create music, fiction, film, and theatre - 'Tragedy' - to encourage crying. Michael Trimble looks at the physiology and evolution of this unique human behaviour, exploring its links with language, consciousness, empathy, and religious practices.

Author : Manuel Dries
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110246537

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Nietzsche on Consciousness and the Embodied Mind by Manuel Dries Pdf

Nietzsche’s thought has been of renewed interest to philosophers in both the Anglo- American and the phenomenological and hermeneutic traditions. Nietzsche on Consciousness and the Embodied Mind presents 16 essays from analytic and continental perspectives. Appealing to both international communities of scholars, the volume seeks to deepen the appreciation of Nietzsche’s contribution to our understanding of consciousness and the mind. Over the past decades, a variety of disciplines have engaged with Nietzsche’s thought, including anthropology, biology, history, linguistics, neuroscience, and psychology, to name just a few. His rich and perspicacious treatment of consciousness, mind, and body cannot be reduced to any single discipline, and has the potential to speak to many. And, as several contributors make clear, Nietzsche’s investigations into consciousness and the embodied mind are integral to his wider ethical concerns. This volume contains contributions by international experts such as Christa Davis Acampora (Emory University), Keith Ansell-Pearson (Warwick University), João Constâncio (Universidade Nova de Lisboa), Frank Chouraqui (Leiden University), Manuel Dries (The Open University; Oxford University), Christian J. Emden (Rice University), Maria Cristina Fornari (University of Salento), Anthony K. Jensen (Providence College), Helmut Heit (Tongji University), Charlie Huenemann (Utah State University), Vanessa Lemm (Flinders University), Lawrence J. Hatab (Old Dominion University), Mattia Riccardi (University of Porto), Friedrich Ulfers and Mark Daniel Cohen (New York University and EGS), and Benedetta Zavatta (CNRS).

Author : Frederick George Thomas Bridgham
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781571133403

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The First World War as a Clash of Cultures by Frederick George Thomas Bridgham Pdf

Contains essays examining the perceived tensions between British and German cultural traditions and beliefs before 1914 and how popular literature, public debate, cultural distinction, and war-time propaganda determined historical, political, and military events leading to war.

Author : Vanessa Lemm
Publisher : Fordham University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009-08-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780823238002

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Nietzsche's Animal Philosophy by Vanessa Lemm Pdf

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 corpus as a whole 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 on-going 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. Lemm's book presents Nietzsche as the thinker of an emancipatory and affirmative biopolitics. This book will appeal not only to readers interested in Nietzsche, but also 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.

Author : Ritchie Robertson
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781789146073

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Friedrich Nietzsche by Ritchie Robertson Pdf

An accessible and informative study of the life and work of this vaunted German philosopher. In this concise yet comprehensive critical biography, Ritchie Robertson examines the work of Friedrich Nietzsche within the context of his life. The book traces Nietzsche’s development from outstanding classical scholar to cultural critic, who measured Imperial Germany by the standards of ancient Greece. It follows him on his path from a prophet (in the persona of Zarathustra) to a savage polemicist against modern liberal values, offering a “philosophy of the future.” Robertson argues that Nietzsche’s middle-period writings offer a subtle and searching analysis of his culture, more rewarding than the strident and often-controversial later works. The book also assesses Nietzsche’s claim to be continuing the Enlightenment and shows that he valued reason, evidence, and fact, without which his historical case against Christianity would make no sense.