Nietzsche's voices / John Sallis and Richard Rojcewicz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sallis, John, 1938- author.

Rojcewicz, Richard, author.

Series:

The Collected Writings of John Sallis

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900.

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (202 pages)

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2023]

Summary:

Nietzsche's Voices, a much-anticipated volume of the Collected Writings of John Sallis, presents his two-semester lecture course on Nietzsche offered in the Philosophy Department of Duquesne University during the school year 1971-72. "Nietzsche is easy to read; his is apparently the easiest of all the great philosophies. Yet the easy intelligibility is deceptive. Nietzsche's writings make us believe we have understood when in fact we have not. His philosophy is actually the exact opposite of easy, " says Sallis. With this warning always in mind, Sallis first discusses Nietzsche's life and the relevance of the ancient Greeks to his thought and then analyzes Nietzsche's views on truth, history, morality, and the death of God. The entire second half of the book is devoted to Nietzsche's main work, the tragic, comedic, poetic Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Nietzsche's Voices offers a sensitive and brilliant introduction to the thought of Friedrich Nietzsche, as presented by one of today's most significant philosophers.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Key to the Citations of Nietzsche's Works

I. Introduction

II. Nietzsche's Life

A. Life in Relation to Thought.

B. Boyhood.

C. University Student Years.

D. The Basel Period.

E. Last Years.

F. Behold the Man.

III. The Greeks

A. The Contemporary Relevance of the Greeks.

B. The Birth of Tragedy.

C. Culture.

D. The Wisdom of Silenus.

E. Apollo and Dionysus.

F. Apollinian Culture.

G. Lyric Poetry.

H. Greek Tragedy.

I. The Death of Tragedy and the Birth of Socratism.

J. The Contemporary Task.

IV. Truth

A. General Issues in Nietzsche's Essay on Truth.

B. The Value and Nature of Truth.

C. Falsification and Forgetfulness.

D. A Music-Practicing Socrates.

V. History

A. Human Temporality.

B. History and Life.

C. Kinds of History.

D. History as Threat to Life.

E. Nihilism.

VI. Morality

A. Freedom and Morality.

B. The Ground of Morality.

C. Life as will to Power.

D. Morality and Life.

E. The Slave Revolt.

F. Contradictions.

VII. The Death of God

A. The Madman.

B. God as Crime Against Life.

C. Our Role in the Killing of God.

D. The Lantern.

E. This-Worldly Comfort.

F. Transformation into Overman.

G. Beginning of a Higher History.

H. The Shadows of God.

I. Madness.

VIII. Thus Spoke Zarathustra

A. The Task of Becoming Overman.

B. The Task of Homecoming.

C. Image-Language.

D. The Central Idea of Thus Spoke Zarathustra.

E. Thus Spoke Zarathustra as Tragedy.

F. Images in the Prologue.

G. First Stage of Homecoming: The Camel.

H. Second Stage of Homecoming: The Lion.

I. Final Stage of Homecoming: The Child.

J. The child in the First Part of Thus Spoke Zarathustra.

K. Marriage and Women.

L. The Child in the Second Part of Thus Spoke Zarathustra.

M. The Night Song.

N. The Dancing Song.

O. The Tomb Song.

P. Metaphysics.

Q. Knowledge and Truth.

R. Night.

S. Priority of Art Over Truth.

T. The Sublime Man.

U. Philosophy and Art.

V. The Eternal Recurrence.

W. Conclusion. Song.

Editor's Afterword

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Sallis, John Nietzsche's Voices

ISBN:

9780253063625

0253063620