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Record Nr.

UNINA9910974057803321

Autore

Berkowitz Peter <1959->

Titolo

Nietzsche : the ethics of an immoralist / / Peter Berkowitz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, c1995

ISBN

9780674252394

067425239X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

318 p

Disciplina

193

Soggetti

Ethics, Modern - 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- I. Nietzsche's Histories -- 1. The Ethics of History: On the Uses and Disadvantages of History for Life -- 2. The Ethics of Art: The Birth of Tragedy -- 3. The Ethics of Morality: On the Genealogy of Morals -- 4. The Ethics of Religion: The Antichrist -- II. The Highest Type -- 5. The Beginning of Zarathustra's Political Education: Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Prologue) -- 6. The Ethics of Creativity: Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Part I) -- 7. The Lust for Eternity and the Pathos of Self-Deification: Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Parts II and III) -- 8. Retreat from the Extremes: Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Part IV) -- 9. The Ethics of Knowing: Beyond Good and Evil -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Nietzsche has come to be revered as a prophet of human liberation who broke radically with traditional forms of morality and philosophy. Berkowitz challenges this new orthodoxy, asserting that it produces a one-dimensional picture of Nietzsche's philosophical explorations and passes by much of what is provocative and problematic in his thought.