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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... normative guidance spawns nihilism , understood as disorientation . In contrast to the received interpretation , I argue that in Nietzsche's considered view , nihilism is primarily a claim about the world and our life in it , and not ...
... showing that values lack the metaethical characteristics required to possess normative authority . There is no reason to despair over the unrealizability of values that prove to be illegitimate . Chapter Introduction⚫ 9.
... normative objec- tivism , which is the view that the authority of values — in his words , the " value of these values " —depends on their objective standing . The devaluation of values consists here in showing that they lack objective ...
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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 |