Nietzsche and paradox / Rogerio Miranda de Almeida ; translated by Mark S. Roberts.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Almeida, Rogério Miranda de.

Standardized Title:

Nietzsche et le paradoxe. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900.

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (234 p.)

Place of Publication:

Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Newly translated into English, this book analyzes the paradoxical discourse that flows through and fundamentally characterizes Nietzsche's writings. Examining Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy; Human, All Too Human; Beyond Good and Evil; On the Genealogy of Morals; and The Antichrist; Rogério Miranda de Almeida patiently opens these texts to the multiplicity of truths that unfold through the process of continuous reinterpretation and reevaluation. Never formally defining the contradictions within Nietzsche's conception of metaphysics, religion, art, science, and philosophy, Miranda de Almeida acknowledges instead that the history of thought, and the development of Nietzsche's writings in particular, is an interplay of forces and drives, encroachment and surrender, construction and destruction, overcoming and transformation, lack and fulfillment, satisfaction and dissatisfaction, pleasure and displeasure, pain and delight. This book reveals the endless perspectives and truths that Nietzsche creates and transforms.

Contents:

The birth of tragedy

Apollo and Dionysus

Justification by aesthetics and the question of nature

Socrates, tragedy, science

Nihilism, ressentiment, "great Pan is dead"

What wills The birth of tragedy?

The interval : human, all too human

The world as representation and error

Science, art, religion

The relation of forces, the will to power, morality

"Descent into Hades"

Thought and writing as artifice

Of style and masks

Suffering, writing, transfigurations

The eternal return, will to power, amor fati

Nietzsche and Christianity

St. Paul, the Jewish Pascal

Such people, such gods

Providence, beautiful chaos and sublime chance

"We godless others"

"Who are we anyway?"

Morality exceeded by morality

"We the good"

Guilt and bad conscience

Ascetic ideals

Zarathustra, moralist

Beyond good and evil

Of reading and rewriting

The true, the false, appearances

"In the horizon of the infinite".

Notes:

Translated from the French.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-215) and index.

ISBN:

9780791481127

0791481123

9781429413749

1429413743

OCLC:

76822024