Nietzsche, biology, and metaphor / Gregory Moore.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moore, Gregory, 1972- author.

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Metaphor.

Human evolution--Philosophy.

Human evolution.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 228 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Nietzsche, Biology & Metaphor

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

pt. 1. Evolution

1. The physiology of power

2. The physiology of morality

3. The physiology of art

pt. 2. Degeneration

4. Nietzsche and the nervous age

5. Christianity and degeneration

6. Degenerate art.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 212-224) and index.

ISBN:

1-107-12551-0

1-280-43397-3

0-511-32933-4

0-511-49063-1

0-511-04528-X

0-511-17594-9

0-511-15664-2

0-521-81230-5

OCLC:

475917511