Nietzsche On Art And Life

Author : Daniel Came
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191662898

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Nietzsche on Art and Life by Daniel Came Pdf

Nietzsche was not interested in the nature of art as such, or in providing an aesthetic theory of a traditional sort. For he regarded the significance of art to lie not in l'art pour l'art, but in the role that it might play in enabling us positively to 'revalue' the world and human experience. This volume brings together a number of distinguished figures in contemporary Anglo-American Nietzsche scholarship to examine his views on art and the aesthetic in the context of this wider philosophical project. All of the major themes of Nietzsche's aesthetics are discussed: art and the affirmation of life, the relationship between art and truth, music, tragedy, the nature of aesthetic experience, the role of art in Nietzsche's positive ethics, his critique of romanticism, and his ambivalent attitude towards Richard Wagner.

Author : Daniel Came
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199545964

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Nietzsche on Art and Life by Daniel Came Pdf

Nietzsche had a particular interest in the relationship between art and life, and in art's contribution to his philosophical aims—to identify the conditions of the affirmation of life, cultural renewal, and exemplary human living. These new essays demonstrate that understanding his engagement with art is essential for understanding his philosophy.

Author : Mark Anderson
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781472532893

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Plato and Nietzsche by Mark Anderson Pdf

It is commonly known that Nietzsche is one of Plato's primary philosophical antagonists, yet there is no full-length treatment in English of their ideas in dialogue and debate. Plato and Nietzsche is an advanced introduction to these two thinkers, with original insights and arguments interspersed throughout the text. Through a rigorous exploration of their ideas on art, metaphysics, ethics, and the nature of philosophy, and by explaining and analyzing each man's distinctive approach, Mark Anderson demonstrates the many and varied ways they play off against one another. This book provides the background necessary to understanding the principle matters at issue between these two philosophers and to developing an awareness that Nietzsche's engagement with Plato is deeper and more nuanced than it is often presented as being.

Author : Julian Young
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Art
ISBN : 0521455758

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Nietzsche's Philosophy of Art by Julian Young Pdf

This is a clear and lucid account of Nietzsche's philosophy of art.

Author : Aaron Ridley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2007-01-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134375455

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Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Nietzsche on Art by Aaron Ridley Pdf

Aaron Ridley offers a clear and insightful examination of Nietzsche's significant thoughts on art, and covers key texts such as The Birth of Tragedy, Human, All Too Human and Thus Spoke Zarathustra.

Author : Alexander Nehamas
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2000-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780520224902

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The Art of Living by Alexander Nehamas Pdf

In this wide-ranging, brilliantly written account, Nehamas provides an incisive reevaluation of Socrates' place in the Western philosophical tradition and shows the importance of Socrates for Montaigne, Nietzsche, and Foucault.

Author : Alexander Nehamas
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0674624262

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Nietzsche, Life as Literature by Alexander Nehamas Pdf

More than eighty years after his death, Nietzsche's writings and his career remain disquieting, disturbing, obscure. His most famous views--the will to power, the eternal recurrence, the bermensch, the master morality--often seem incomprehensible or, worse, repugnant. Yet he remains a thinker of singular importance, a great opponent of Hegel and Kant, and the source of much that is powerful in figures as diverse as Wittgenstein, Derrida, Heidegger, and many recent American philosophers. Alexander Nehamas provides the best possible guide for the perplexed. He reveals the single thread running through Nietzsche's views: his thinking of the world on the model of a literary text, of people as if they were literary characters, and of knowledge and science as if they were literary interpretation. Beyond this, he advances the clarity of the concept of textuality, making explicit some of the forces that hold texts together and so hold us together. Nehamas finally allows us to see that Nietzsche is creating a literary character out of himself, that he is, in effect, playing the role of Plato to his own Socrates. Nehamas discusses a number of opposing views, both American and European, of Nietzsche's texts and general project, and reaches a climactic solving of the main problems of Nietzsche interpretation in a step-by-step argument. In the process he takes up a set of very interesting questions in contemporary philosophy, such as moral relativism and scientific realism. This is a book of considerable breadth and elegance that will appeal to all curious readers of philosophy and literature.

Author : Sue Prideaux
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781524760823

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I Am Dynamite! by Sue Prideaux Pdf

"A biography of the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche"--

Author : Stephen Donadio
Publisher : New York : Oxford University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015004931914

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Nietzsche, Henry James, and the Artistic Will by Stephen Donadio Pdf

This pioneering contribution to the history of modern ideas connects two commanding figures ordinarily considered worlds apart. Observing that philosophy and fiction are two activities which have 'always sustained and offered criticisms of one another,' Stephen Donadio sets out to explore the continuities of thought and feeling which link Nietzsche, a European philosopher whose work often appears to reflect a feverish attraction to extremity, and James, an American novelist commonly identified with decorous assertions of magisterial detachment. Moving beyond the boundaries of isolated literary and philosophical investigation, this wide-ranging study represents a breakthrough in our understanding of the relations between the phenomenon of modernism and the settled presuppositions of American imaginative life. Donadio points out the correspondences between the Nietzschean conception of the superman and more immediately familiar assumptions regarding American identity. In addition, he provides a compelling account of that moment in cultural history at the turn of the century which produced a radical new view of the relationship of art to life. Donadio shows that James and Nietzsche shared an intense belief in the power of art as the only activity capable of raising experience from insignificance. For both of them, it was an activity requiring an unrelenting imposition of the will on the facts of experience, and they were accordingly joined in their resistance to the two dominant tendencies of the literature of their time... naturalism and 'art for art's sake.' Perhaps most significantly, they shared an abiding sense of kinship with Emerson, whom Nietzsche named as 'the author as yet the richest in ideas in this century.' -- Publisher description.

Author : Babette E. Babich
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0791418650

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Nietzsche's Philosophy of Science by Babette E. Babich Pdf

Author : Vanessa Lemm
Publisher : Fordham University Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 40,8 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 : John Kaag
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780374715748

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Hiking with Nietzsche by John Kaag Pdf

"A stimulating book about combating despair and complacency with searching reflection." --Heller McAlpin, NPR.org Named a Best Book of 2018 by NPR. One of Lit Hub's 15 Books You Should Read in September and one of Outside's Best Books of Fall A revelatory Alpine journey in the spirit of the great Romantic thinker Friedrich Nietzsche Hiking with Nietzsche: Becoming Who You Are is a tale of two philosophical journeys—one made by John Kaag as an introspective young man of nineteen, the other seventeen years later, in radically different circumstances: he is now a husband and father, and his wife and small child are in tow. Kaag sets off for the Swiss peaks above Sils Maria where Nietzsche wrote his landmark work Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Both of Kaag’s journeys are made in search of the wisdom at the core of Nietzsche’s philosophy, yet they deliver him to radically different interpretations and, more crucially, revelations about the human condition. Just as Kaag’s acclaimed debut, American Philosophy: A Love Story, seamlessly wove together his philosophical discoveries with his search for meaning, Hiking with Nietzsche is a fascinating exploration not only of Nietzsche’s ideals but of how his experience of living relates to us as individuals in the twenty-first century. Bold, intimate, and rich with insight, Hiking with Nietzsche is about defeating complacency, balancing sanity and madness, and coming to grips with the unobtainable. As Kaag hikes, alone or with his family, but always with Nietzsche, he recognizes that even slipping can be instructive. It is in the process of climbing, and through the inevitable missteps, that one has the chance, in Nietzsche’s words, to “become who you are."

Author : Roy Brand
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030547721

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Art and the Form of Life by Roy Brand Pdf

Art and the Form of Life takes a classic theme—philosophy as the art of living—and gives it a contemporary twist. The book examines a series of watershed moments in artistic practice alongside philosophers’ most enduring questions about the way we live. Coupling Tino Sehgal with Wittgenstein, cave art with Foucault, Stanley Kubrick with Nietzsche, and the Bauhaus with Walter Benjamin, the book animates the idea that life is literally ours to make. It reflects on universal themes that connect the long histories of art and philosophy, and it does so using a contemporary approach. Drawing on great philosophical works, it argues that life practiced as an art form affords an experience of meaning, in the sense that it is engaging, creative, and participatory. It thus effects a fundamental renewal of experience.

Author : Anthony Mario Ludovici
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1230434828

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Nietzsche and Art by Anthony Mario Ludovici Pdf

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 edition. Excerpt: ..."This, however, is the third thing I heard: to command is more difficult than to obey. And not only because the commander beareth the burden of all who obey, and because this burden easily crusheth him: --"An effort and a risk seemed all commanding unto me; and whenever it commandeth, the living thing risketh itself. "Yea, even when it commandeth himself, then also must it atone for its commanding. Of its own law must it become the judge and avenger and victim." 1 For opinions are a matter of will; they are always, or ought to be always, travelling tickets implying a certain definite aim and destination, and the opinions we hold concerning Life must point to a certain object we see in Life;--hence there is just as great a market for opinions, and just as great a demand for fixed values to-day as there ever was, and the jealous love with which men will quote well-established views, or begin to believe when they hear that a view is well established--a fact which is at the root of all the fruits of modern popularity--shows what a need and what a craving there is for authority, for authoritative information, and for unimpeachable coiners of opinions. Now all the arts either determine values or lay 1 Z., II, XXXIV. stress upon certain values already established.1 What, then, are the particular values that the graphic arts determine or accentuate? It must be clear that they determine what is beautiful, desirable, in fact, imperative, in form and colour. The purpose of the graphic arts, then, has remained the same as it ever was. It is to determine the values "ugly" and "beautiful" for those who wish to know what is ugly and what is beautiful. The fact that painters and sculptors have grown so tremulous and...

Author : Aaron Ridley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2007-01-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134375448

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Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Nietzsche on Art by Aaron Ridley Pdf

Nietzsche is one of the most important modern philosophers and his writings on the nature of art are amongst the most influential of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This GuideBook introduces and assesses: Nietzsche's life and the background to his writings on art the ideas and texts of his works which contribute to art, including The Birth of Tragedy, Human, All Too Human and Thus Spoke Zarathustra Nietzsche's continuing importance to philosophy and contemporary thought. This GuideBook will be essential reading for all students coming to Nietzsche for the first time.