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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... values , " to which the letter also refers , and which will prove to be an essential requirement of the af- firmation of life , has generated hardly less puzzlement and controversy . The ambition of the present book is to articulate a ...
... values . It is the conviction that our highest values cannot be realized in this world , and that there is no other world in which they can . The ensuing condition is best described as despair . The elaboration of a strategy to overcome ...
... values . Nihilism , remember , is despair , or the conviction that our highest values cannot be realized . Discrediting the belief in God ( and in a metaphysical world beyond this one ) motivates despair only on the assumption that our ...
... values . And I call the second 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 ...
... values and ideals . In its substantive form , by contrast , the revaluation of these values and ideals focuses on their content . Nietzsche declares that the revaluation of values is to be conducted under the aegis of his doctrine of ...
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 |