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- Nietzsche and the Becoming of Life
- Book
- 2014
- Published by: Fordham University Press
- Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
summary
Throughout his writing career Nietzsche advocates 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. _x000B__x000B_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._x000B__x000B_
Table of Contents
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- List of Abbreviations
- pp. xi-xii
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xiii-xvi
- Introduction
- pp. 1-16
- PA RT I
- PA RT II
- PA RT III
- 7. Life, Injustice, and Recurrence
- pp. 121-136
- PA RT IV
- 9. Toward the Body of the Overman
- pp. 161-176
- PA RT V
- PA RT VI
- List of Contributors
- pp. 385-388
Additional Information
ISBN
9780823262908
Related ISBN(s)
9780823262861
MARC Record
OCLC
891603400
Pages
424
Launched on MUSE
2014-09-29
Language
English
Open Access
No