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Record Nr.

UNISA996248349203316

Titolo

Nietzsche and the becoming of life / / edited by Vanessa Lemm

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Fordham University Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-8232-6652-4

0-8232-6290-1

0-8232-6289-8

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (421 p.)

Collana

Perspective in Continental Philosophy

Disciplina

193

Soggetti

PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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,



the essays in this volume propose a more skeptical view. Life is both what is closest and what is furthest from us, because life experiments through us as much as we experiment with it, because life keeps our thinking and our habits always moving, in a state of recurring nomadism. Nietzsche’s philosophy is perhaps the clearest expression of the antinomy contained in the idea of “studying” life and in the Socratic ideal of an “examined” life and remains a deep source of wisdom about living.