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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... remains marred by many shortcomings . I have also benefited from discussions following presentations of parts of this book with audiences at Brown University , the University of Illinois at Champaign - Urbana , Stanford University ...
... remains particularly tenacious throughout the first half of the nineteenth century . It is the ambition to make philosophical knowledge well founded and all inclusive , by showing how the entire body of knowledge can be derived from a ...
... remains the correct account of the normative authority of our value judgments . This strategy averts nihilistic dis- orientation by proposing to conceive of descriptive objectivism as a form of make - believe . Although objective values ...
... remains compatible with a condemnation of suffering , and therefore with the negation of life . Indeed , we might still coherently aspire to a world in which we do not have to suffer in order to be creative . To affirm life , we must ...
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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 |