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UNINA9910788040103321 |
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Autore |
Lemm Vanessa |
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Nietzsche and the becoming of life / / edited by Vanessa Lemm |
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New York : , : Fordham University Press, , 2015 |
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©2015 |
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ISBN |
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0-8232-6652-4 |
0-8232-6290-1 |
0-8232-6289-8 |
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Edizione |
[First edition.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (421 p.) |
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Collana |
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Perspective in Continental Philosophy |
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PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front matter -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 The Optics of Science, Art, and Life -- 2 Nietzsche, Nature, and Life Affirmation -- 3 Is Evolution Blind? -- 4 Nietzsche and the Nineteenth- Century Debate on Teleology -- 5 Nietzsche’s Conception of “Necessity” and Its Relation to “Laws of Nature” -- 6 Life and Justice in Nietzsche’s Conception of History -- 7 Life, Injustice, and Recurrence -- 8 Heeding the Law of Life -- 9 Toward the Body of the Overman -- 10 Nietzsche’s Synaesthetic Epistemology and the Restitution of the Holistic Human -- 11 Nietzsche’s Naturalist Morality of Breeding: A Critique of Eugenics as Taming -- 12 An “Other Way of Being.” -- 13 Nietzsche and the Transformation of Death -- 14 Becoming and Purification -- 15 “Falling in Love with Becoming” -- 16 “We Are Experiments” -- 17 States and Nomads -- Notes -- List of Contributors -- Index |
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Throughout his writing career Nietzsche advocated the affirmation of earthly life as a way to counteract nihilism and asceticism. This volume takes stock of the complexities and wide-ranging perspectives that Nietzsche brings to bear on the problem of life’s becoming on Earth by engaging various interpretative paradigms reaching from existentialist to Darwinist readings of Nietzsche. In an age in which the biological sciences claim to have unlocked the deepest secrets and codes of life, |
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