Nietzsche's system / John Richardson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Richardson, John, 1951-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900.

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm.

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (329 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book argues, against recent interpretations, that Nietzsche does in fact have a metaphysical system--but that this is to his credit. Rather than renouncing philosophy's traditional project, he still aspires to find and state essential truths, both descriptive and valuative, about us and the world. These basic thoughts organize and inform everything he writes; by examining them closely we can find the larger structure and unifying sense of his strikingly diverse views. With rigor and conceptual specificity, Richardson examines the will-to-power ontology and maps the values that emerge from it. He also considers the significance of Nietzsche's famous break with Plato--replacing the concept of "being" with that of "becoming." By its conservative method, this book tries to do better justice to the truly radical force of Nietzsche's ideas--to demonstrate more exactly their novelty and interest.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Introduction

1. Being

1.1 The metaphysics of will to power

1.1.1 Power as growth in activity

1.1.2 Power as over others

1.2 Wills to power as perspectives

1.3 Will to power's basic forms: active versus reactive

1.4 Persons and societies as synthetic wills

1.5 The typology of persons

1.5.1 The master

1.5.2 The slave

1.5.3 The overman

2. Becoming

2.1 The temporal aspects of the power ontology

2.1.1 A world 'essentially changing'

2.1.2 Plato's attack on becoming

2.1.3 Nietzsche's theory of becoming

2.2 The temporality of the active and reactive

2.3 Persons' complex time

2.4 History as societies' time

2.5 The basic temporal types of persons

2.5.1 The master's active effort to preserve

2.5.2 The slave's revenge against time

2.5.3 The overman's embrace of becoming

3. Value

3.1 Nietzsche's advice: maximize power

3.1.1 Whose power?

3.1.2 Why power?

3.1.3 What power is

3.2 A broader self-interest

3.3 Nietzsche's politics

3.3.1 Against equality

3.3.2 For what type of inequality?

3.4 Nietzsche's ethics

3.4.1 Friends and enemies

3.4.2 Men and women

3.5 The force of Nietzsche's values

3.5.1 Against reflection?

3.5.2 Freedom and fate

3.5.3 Rank order

4. Truth

4.1 Against truth's possibility

4.1.1 Becoming can't be known

4.1.2 Knowing can't be detached

4.2 Against truth's value

4.3 The genealogy of the will to truth

4.3.1 As a tool of the drives

4.3.2 As ascetic opponent to the drives

4.3.3 In its active maturity

4.4 The new philosophers

4.5 Truth with perspectivism

4.5.1 The new truth method

4.5.2 The new truth goal

4.5.3 A Nietzschean metaphysics

Appendix: A Nietzschean Vocabulary

Bibliography

Primary Sources

Secondary Sources

Index

Name Index

A

B

C

D.

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

Q

R

S

T

V

W

Z

Subject Index

D

E

U

W.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-303) and indexes.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-028874-4

1-282-26799-X

9786612267994

0-19-802589-0

1-4237-3873-X

OCLC:

559910080