Nietzsche's values / John Richardson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Richardson, John, 1951- author.

Contributor:

Rev. C. P. Krauth Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900.

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm.

Values.

Physical Description:

xvi, 546 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2020]

Summary:

"The book gives a uniquely comprehensive philosophical analysis of Nietzsche's thinking. It shows how this thinking has its unifying focus on values--both the past and prevailing values that his psychologies and genealogies explain, and the new values that he himself creates and defends. It maps, in detail, the argumentative structure of his thinking as it bears on this central topic. It argues that his ultimate ambition is to show how we can incorporate the truth about values into our own valuing-and that he is therefore more deeply committed to truth than often supposed. The book's chapters examine twelve key concepts, each at the heart of a network of problems and ideas. A first group of concepts (value, life, drives, affects) treat the bodily valuing he attributes to our drives and affects; a second group (human, words, nihilism, freedom) treat the valuing we carry out in our deeply-flawed conception of ourselves as moral agents; the third group (the Yes, self, creating, Dionysus) project the values he offers as the lesson of his critiques--values centered on a universal affirmation expressed in the idea of eternal return. Each chapter organizes the rich complexity of Nietzsche's thought on its topic, and works to resolve contradictions, often by showing how he treats the concepts and problems as historical. The book synthesizes these detailed analyses into a systematic picture of his thought"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1 Value: Introducing the Problems p. 1

1.1 Studying values-and valuing p. 3

1.2 The value of values p. 6

1.3 Twelve principles from the study of values p. 13

1.4 Incorporating the truth about values p. 26

1.5 Metaethical multiplicity p. 30

Part I Body Values

2 Life: As Valuer and Valued p. 39

2.1 Life: an introduction p. 41

2.2 Life as valuing p. 46

2.3 Life values power p. 53

2.4 Justifying power p. 61

2.5 Lessons from life's value p. 71

3 Drives: Psychology of Drives Not Agents p. 81

3.1 Knowing the drives p. 83

3.2 Drives valuing p. 92

3.3 Conflict and synthesis of drives p. 101

3.4 New relation to the drives p. 108

4 Affects: Memory and Suffering p. 115

4.1 Affects p. 117

4.1.1 Analyzing affects p. 118

4.1.2 Affects and drives p. 121

4.1.3 Lessons for the affects p. 124

4.2 The problem of the past p. 127

4.2.1 The past's importance p. 130

4.2.2 Problems with retrospection p. 134

4.3 Suffering and pessimism p. 139

4.3.1 Defining suffering p. 140

4.3.2 Reply to Schopenhauer p. 143

4.3.3 Suffering's genealogy and types p. 147

4.3.4 Sick and healthy suffering p. 153

Part II Human Values

5 Human: Agency as Our life-Condition p. 161

5.1 Doubts against the subject/agent p. 164

5.2 Do life-conditions justify? p. 172

5.2.1 Transcendental argument in Kant p. 173

5.2.2 Against transcendental argument p. 175

5.2.3 Necessary perspectives p. 180

5.3 Genealogy of agency p. 188

5.4 Human means values as true p. 196

6 Words: Language and Community p. 204

6.1 Community and the common p. 206

6.2 Who speaks? p. 211

6.3 Language's risks p. 217

6.4 Commons and individuals p. 224

6.5 New language, new community p. 233

7 Nihilism: Against Morality-and Truth? p. 240

7.1 Nihilism p. 242

7.1.1 No-to-life nihilism p. 246

7.1.2 No-values nihilism p. 251

7.2 Morality p. 255

7.2.1 What it is p. 255

7.2.2 Why it's bad p. 258

7.3 Critiques of moral values p. 266

7.3.1 Against pity p. 268

7.3.2 Against equality p. 277

7.4 Genealogy of the will to truth p. 283

7.5 Assessing the will to truth p. 290

8 Freedom: Science, History, Psychology p. 304

8.1 Doubts about science p. 306

8.2 Freedom p. 315

8.2.1 Animal freedom as drive-unity p. 318

8.2.2 Human freedom as agency p. 319

8.2.3 Nietzschean freedom by genealogy p. 322

8.3.1 Nietzsche's path from UM.ii p. 328

8.3.2 The new science of history p. 334

8.3.3 The historical sense p. 339

8.4 Psychology p. 342

Part III Nietzsche Values

9 The Yes: Value Monism p. 353

9.1 Monisms and dualisms p. 356

9.2 Against opposite values p. 363

9.3 Saying Yes and saying yes-and-no p. 374

9.3.1 The Yes and everyday values p. 378

9.3.2 Dualism redux p. 383

9.4 How to say Yes p. 387

9.5 The value of the Yes p. 394

10 Self: To Become Who One Is p. 398

10.1 Selfhood as reflexivity p. 400

10.2 Genealogy of the self p. 405

10.3 A Nietzschean self p. 412

10.4 How to become a self p. 417

10.4.1 Self out of multiple parts p. 418

10.4.2 Self out of enveloping other p. 424

10.5 Being one's own p. 429

10.5.1 One's own perspective p. 429

10.5.2 Selfishness p. 432

11 Creating: Founding New Social Norms p. 439

11.1 Herds and individuals p. 442

11.2 Creating values, founding norms p. 449

11.2.1 Creating p. 451

11.2.2 Founding p. 453

11.3 De-moralizing norms p. 455

11.4 Recognizing rank-order p. 461

11.4.1 The ladder of human types p. 464

11.4.2 Social classes: noble and herd p. 467

12 Dionysus: New Gods and Eternal Return p. 475

12.1 Superhuman p. 478

12.2 Religions and gods p. 482

12.2.1 Diagnosing religion p. 485

12.2.2 New religion p. 494

12.3 Eternal return p. 507

12.4 In lieu of a conclusion p. 523.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rev. C. P. Krauth Fund.

ISBN:

9780190098230

0190098236

OCLC:

1141222827

Publisher Number:

99985017431