Nietzsche's system / John Richardson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Richardson, John, 1951- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900.

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm.

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 316 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, [1996]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This title challenges the popular recent view of Nietzsche as an anti-systematic, anti-traditional thinker, and argues that his work is in fact highly systematic, and therefore congruent with the main traditions of western philosophy.

Contents:

Being. The metaphysics of will to power ; Wills to power as perspectives ; Will to power's basic forms: active versus reactive ; Persons and societies as synthetic wills ; The typology of persons

Becoming. The temporal aspects of the power ontology ; The temporality of the active and reactive ; Persons' complex time ; History as societies' time ; The basic temporal types of persons

Value. Nietzsche's advice: maximize power ; A broader self-interest ; Nietzsche's politics ; Nietzsche's ethics ; The force of Nietzsche's values

Truth. Against truth's possibility ; Against truth's value ; The genealogy of the will to truth ; The new philosophers ; Truth with perspectivism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-280-45149-1

9786610451494

0-585-35915-6

OCLC:

1027193062