Beyond selflessness : reading Nietzsche's Genealogy / Christopher Janaway.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Janaway, Christopher, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900. Zur Genealogie der Moral.

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 284 pages)

Other Title:

Reading Nietzsche's Genealogy

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Christopher Janaway presents a full commentary on Nietzsche's most studied work, On the Genealogy of Morality, and combines close reading of key passages with an overview of Nietzsche's wider aims. Arguing that Nietzsche's goal is to pursue psychological and historical truths concerning the origins of modern moral values, Beyond Selflessness is distinctive in that it also emphasizes the significance of Nietzsches rhetorical methods as an instrument of persuasion.Nietzsche's outlook is broadly naturalist, but he is critical of typical scientific and philosophical methods for their advocacy of i

Contents:

Nietzsche's aims and targets

Reading Nietzsche's preface

Naturalism and genealogy

Selflessness : the struggle with Schopenhauer

Nietzsche and Paul Ree on the origins of moral feelings

Good and evil : affect, artistry, and revaluation

Free will, autonomy, and the sovereign individual

Guilt, bad conscience, and self-punishment

Will to power in the Genealogy

Nietzsche's illustration of the art of exegesis

Disinterestedness and objectivity

Perspectival knowing and the affects

The ascetic ideal, meaning, and truth

Beyond selflessness.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-277) and index.

ISBN:

0-19-957085-X

1-281-16486-0

9786611164867

0-19-153551-6

1-4356-2383-5

OCLC:

183915539