1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910785270503321

Autore

Roberts Tyler T.

Titolo

Contesting Spirit : Nietzsche, Affirmation, Religion / / Tyler T. Roberts

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Princeton, NJ : , : Princeton University Press, , [1998]

©1999

ISBN

1-282-75346-0

9786612753466

1-4008-2261-0

Edizione

[Core Textbook]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (245 p.)

Disciplina

200/.92

261.51

Soggetti

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900 -- Religion

Philosophy

Religion - History - Philosophy - 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- NOTE ON TEXTS AND CITATIONS -- Introduction: NIETZSCHE AND RELIGION -- Chapter One. Too Much of Nothing: Metaphysics and the Value of Existence -- Chapter Two. Figuring Religion, Contesting Spirit -- Chapter Three. Nietzsche's Asceticism -- Chapter Four. The Problem of Mysticism in Nietzsche -- Chapter Five. Ecstatic Philosophy -- Chapter Six. Nietzsche's Affirmation: A Passion for the Real -- Conclusion: Alterity and Affirmation -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Challenging the dominant scholarly consensus that Nietzsche is simply an enemy of religion, Tyler Roberts examines the place of religion in Nietzsche's thought and Nietzsche's thought as a site of religion. Roberts argues that Nietzsche's conceptualization and cultivation of an affirmative self require that we interrogate the ambiguities that mark his criticisms of asceticism and mysticism. What emerges is a vision of Nietzsche's philosophy as the enactment of a spiritual quest informed by transfigured versions of religious tropes and practices. Nietzsche criticizes the ascetic hatred of the body and this-worldly life, yet engages in rigorous practices of self-denial--he sees philosophy as



such a practice--and affirms the need of imposing suffering on oneself in order to enhance the spirit. He dismisses the "intoxication" of mysticism, yet links mysticism, power, and creativity, and describes his own self-transcending experiences. The tensions in his relation to religion are closely related to that between negation and affirmation in his thinking in general. In Roberts's view, Nietzsche's transfigurations of religion offer resources for a postmodern religious imagination. Though as a "master of suspicion," Nietzsche, with Freud and Marx, is an integral part of modern antireligion, he has the power to take us beyond the flat, modern distinction between the secular and the religious--a distinction that, at the end of modernity, begs to be reexamined.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910917242703321

Autore

Seals Corinne A.

Titolo

Choosing a Mother Tongue : The Politics of Language and Identity in Ukraine / / Corinne A. Seals

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Blue Ridge Summit, PA : , : Multilingual Matters, , [2019]

©2019

ISBN

9781788925006

1788925009

9781788925013

1788925017

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (221 pages)

Collana

Multilingual Matters

Disciplina

306.44/09477

Soggetti

Ukrainian language - Political aspects

Language revival - Ukraine

Ukrainians - Ethnic identity

Language maintenance - Ukraine

Language and languages - Political aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Historical



Language Ideologies and Sociopolitical Conflict in Ukraine -- 2. Language and Identity After the Orange Revolution -- 3. Othering and Positioning During a Time of War -- 4. Who’s Responsible? The Politics of Language -- 5. Renegotiating Identity and ‘Changing Your Mother Tongue’ -- 6. Investment and Loyalty in the Ukrainian Diaspora -- 7. ‘It Doesn’t Matter What You Speak’: Challenges to Dominant Language Ideologies by Ukrainian Young Adults -- 8. Conclusion -- Appendices -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book presents a sociocultural linguistic analysis of discourses of conflict, as well as an examination of how linguistic identity is embodied, negotiated and realized during a time of war. It provides new insights regarding multilingualism among Ukrainians in Ukraine and in the diaspora of New Zealand, the US and Canada, and sheds light on the impact of the Russian-Ukrainian war on language attitudes among Ukrainians around the world. Crucially, it features an analysis of a new movement in Ukraine that developed during the course of the war – ‘changing your mother tongue’, which embodies what it is to renegotiate linguistic identity. It will be of value to researchers, faculty, and students in the areas of linguistics, Slavic studies, history, politics, anthropology, sociology and international affairs, as well as those interested in Ukrainian affairs more generally.