Nietzsche's Affirmative Morality : A Revaluation Based in the Dionysian World-View / Peter Durno Murray.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Murray, Peter Durno, Author.

Series:

Monographien und Texte zur Nietzsche-Forschung ; 42

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm.

Ethics.

Lust--Nietzsche, Friedrich.

Lust.

Moraal.

Moral.

Nietzsche, Friedrich.

Local Subjects:

Lust.

Nietzsche, Friedrich.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (336 pages) : illustrations, tables.

Edition:

Reprint 2015

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book argues that Nietzsche bases his affirmative morality on the model of individual responsiveness to otherness which he takes from the mythology of Dionysus. The subject is not free to choose to avoid such responding to the demands of the other. Nietzsche finds that the basic mode of responding is pleasure. This feeling, as a basis for morality, underlies the morality which is true to the earth and the major concepts of “will to power”, “eternal return”, and “amor fati”. The priority of otherness makes all thought ethical and not only aesthetic. The basis of all meanings combines the fundamental impulse of responding outwards with an immediate complement in the individual interpretation-world. This is specifically ethical because the recognition of our own historical specificity arises as a result of the refusal of others to become mere differences within our notion of the Same, and through their demand that we “become who we are” in the recognition of their separate existence.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Contents

Abbreviations

I. Nietzsche's Dionysus

II. Contradiction, Duplicity and Opposition

III: The Language of Redemption

IV: The Basis in Pleasure

V. A Sense of the Earth

VI: Eternal Return

VII: Affirmation: The Love of Fate

Conclusion: A Beautiful in Vain?

Bibliography

Name Index

Subject Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 17. Jun 2020)

ISBN:

9783110800517

3110800519

OCLC:

979751579