Nietzsche and the becoming of life / edited by Vanessa Lemm.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lemm, Vanessa, Author.

Contributor:

Lemm, Vanessa, editor.

Series:

Perspectives in continental philosophy.

Perspective in Continental Philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900.

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (421 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

List of Abbreviations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 The Optics of Science, Art, and Life

2 Nietzsche, Nature, and Life Affirmation

3 Is Evolution Blind?

4 Nietzsche and the Nineteenth- Century Debate on Teleology

5 Nietzsche’s Conception of “Necessity” and Its Relation to “Laws of Nature”

6 Life and Justice in Nietzsche’s Conception of History

7 Life, Injustice, and Recurrence

8 Heeding the Law of Life

9 Toward the Body of the Overman

10 Nietzsche’s Synaesthetic Epistemology and the Restitution of the Holistic Human

11 Nietzsche’s Naturalist Morality of Breeding: A Critique of Eugenics as Taming

12 An “Other Way of Being.”

13 Nietzsche and the Transformation of Death

14 Becoming and Purification

15 “Falling in Love with Becoming”

16 “We Are Experiments”

17 States and Nomads

Notes

List of Contributors

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

0-8232-6652-4

0-8232-6290-1

0-8232-6289-8

OCLC:

891603400