Nietzsche's aesthetic turn : reading Nietzsche after Heidegger, Deleuze, and Derrida / James J. Winchester. [electronic resource]

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Winchester, James J.

Series:

SUNY series in contemporary continental philosophy

SUNY series in contemporary continental philosophy Nietzsche's aesthetic turn

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900.

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm.

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900--Aesthetics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 208 p. ) ill. ;

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c1994.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"This clearly written book, intended for both specialists and nonspecialists, focuses on Nietzsche's later writings, where he appears unsystematic and indifferent to questions of truth. "This book undertakes three important and related tasks. The first is a comprehensive analysis of Nietzsche's notoriously slippery writings; the second is a critique of several major positions in Nietzsche interpretation; and the third is a proposal for a kind of philosophizing 'beyond the truth standard, ' a philosophy without nostalgia for the lost grounds of truth. These topics are important today, and form the basis for a considerable debate about the significance of Nietzsche in particular and his role in shaping the twentieth century in general."--Book cover.

Contents:

Introduction

1. The Eternal Return and the Plurality of Nietzsche's Voices

2. A System of Will to Power?

3. Deleuze's Reading of Nietzsche As a Pluralist

4. Philosophical Constructions in the Age of the Loss of Absolutes

5. Necessary Fictions

6. Nietzsche's Aesthetic Criteria

7. Aesthetics and Morality: The Moral Implications of the Aesthetic Turn.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-202) and index.

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

1-4384-2420-5

0-585-04515-1