The Affirmation of Life: Nietzsche on Overcoming NihilismAmong all the great thinkers of the past two hundred years, Nietzsche continues to occupy a special place--not only for a broad range of academics but also for members of a wider public, who find some of their most pressing existential concerns addressed in his works. Central among these concerns is the question of the meaning of a life characterized by inescapable suffering, at a time when the traditional responses inspired by Christianity are increasingly losing their credibility. While most recent studies of Nietzsche's works have lost sight of this fundamental issue, Bernard Reginster's book The Affirmation of Life brings it sharply into focus. |
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... important book , gives some psycho- logical and even biographical details about me and my writings ; people will at last suddenly see me . The tone of the work , one of gay detach- ment fraught with a sense of destiny , as is everything ...
... important philosoph- ical contributions — namely , nihilism , the revaluation of values ( which includes the ... importance in Nietzsche's eyes . And they have also overlooked 2. Introduction.
Nietzsche on Overcoming Nihilism Bernard Reginster. importance in Nietzsche's eyes . And they have also overlooked themes that are no less important for being more implicit , such as , for example , Nietzsche's ubiquitous concern with ...
... importance in his eyes . Most signifi- cantly , we become able to understand the nature and privileged standing of his ... important themes , concepts , and aspects of his thought . For example , this book has little to say about the ...
... important ideas of both . I hope to show , for example , that he inherited from Schopenhauer his ubiquitous concern with the problem of suf- fering , that his concept of the will to power grew out of his original understanding of the ...
Contents
Nihilism | 21 |
Overcoming Disorientation | 54 |
The Will to Power | 103 |
Overcoming Despair | 148 |
The Eternal Recurrence | 201 |
Dionysian Wisdom | 228 |
Notes | 271 |
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The Affirmation of Life: Nietzsche on overcoming nihilism Bernard REGINSTER,Bernard Reginster Limited preview - 2009 |
The Affirmation of Life: Nietzsche on Overcoming Nihilism Bernard Reginster No preview available - 2009 |