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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... particular views are animated by a fundamental philosophical motivation , as I believe they are , this approach runs the risk of missing it , and therefore of misunderstanding them . Other interpretations favor a more global systematic ...
... particular , is common to all existing interpretations : none has yet been able to explain adequately why Nietzsche regards the affirmation of life as his defining philosophical achievement . The systematic approach I adopt in this book ...
... particular problem or crisis . The systematicity of his philosophy , in other words , is determined not by a central philosophical doctrine , but by the re- quirements of his response to a particular crisis in late modern Euro- pean ...
... particular desire . And so , his analyses aim more at determining what people want under the name of truth than at the nature of truth as it occupies contemporary analytic phi- losophers . The present book departs from much of the ...
... particular , it seems that we lose the means to establish the value of power . I examine various proposals to address this paradox and draw on metaethical considerations de- veloped in Chapter 2 to articulate a plausible resolution for ...
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 |