Nietzsche : the ethics of an immoralist / Peter Berkowitz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Berkowitz, Peter, 1959-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethics, Modern--19th century.

Ethics, Modern.

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900.

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm.

Physical Description:

318 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, c1995.

Summary:

Nietzsche has come to be revered as a prophet of human liberation who broke radically with traditional forms of morality and philosophy. Berkowitz challenges this new orthodoxy, asserting that it produces a one-dimensional picture of Nietzsche's philosophical explorations and passes by much of what is provocative and problematic in his thought.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Preface

Abbreviations

Introduction

I. Nietzsche's Histories

1. The Ethics of History: On the Uses and Disadvantages of History for Life

2. The Ethics of Art: The Birth of Tragedy

3. The Ethics of Morality: On the Genealogy of Morals

4. The Ethics of Religion: The Antichrist

II. The Highest Type

5. The Beginning of Zarathustra's Political Education: Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Prologue)

6. The Ethics of Creativity: Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Part I)

7. The Lust for Eternity and the Pathos of Self-Deification: Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Parts II and III)

8. Retreat from the Extremes: Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Part IV)

9. The Ethics of Knowing: Beyond Good and Evil

Conclusion

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780674252394

067425239X