Within Nietzsche's Labyrinth

Within Nietzsche's Labyrinth
Author: Alan White
Publisher:
Total Pages: 218
Release: 1990
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN:

This monograph attempts to go beyond Nietzsche's flamboyant but ambiguous words of praise for violence and oppression, in search of the subtler teachings. It then assesses the ethical and political implications of his doctrine of earthly revitalization, and its affirmative power.

Nietzsche and the Question of Interpretation

Nietzsche and the Question of Interpretation
Author: Alan Schrift
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2014-02-25
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1317857232

The first attempt at assessing the references to interpretation theory in the Nietzschean text.

Labyrinths of the Mind

Labyrinths of the Mind
Author: Daniel Ray White
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 240
Release: 1998-01-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780791437872

Applies postmodern theory to the working assumptions and consequent practices of therapy in various disciplines, from clinical psychology to schooling.

Nietzsche's Presence in Freud's Life and Thought

Nietzsche's Presence in Freud's Life and Thought
Author: Ronald Lehrer
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 392
Release: 1995-01-01
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9780791421451

This book examines the nature of Freud's relationship to the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. Nietzsche regarded himself, among other things, as a psychologist. His psychological explorations included an understanding of the meaning and function of dreams, the unconscious, sublimation of drives, drives turned inward upon the self, unconscious guilt, unconscious envy, unconscious resistance, and much more that anticipated some of Freud's fundamental psychoanalytic concepts. Although Freud wrote of Nietzsche having anticipated psychoanalytic concepts, he denied that Nietzsche had any influence on his thought.

Nietzsche's Ethics and his War on 'Morality'

Nietzsche's Ethics and his War on 'Morality'
Author: Simon May
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 230
Release: 1999-12-02
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0191543969

Simon May presents a fresh and wide-ranging critique of Nietzsche's famous attack on traditional morality, and of his controversial ethics of 'life-enhancement'. He reveals Nietzsche as both revolutionary and conservative–as one who repudiates traditional 'moral' conceptions of God, guilt, asceticism, pity, and truthfulness, and yet retains a demanding ethics of discipline, conscience, 'self-creation', generosity, and honesty. In particular, May shows how Nietzsche rejects truthfulness as an unconditional value and yet celebrates it as one of his own highest values, whose worth is determined by who is pursuing it, for what end, and when in their lives. May is strongly critical of various aspects of Nietzsche's thought–his self-defeating conception of justice, his assumption that 'life-enhancement' necessarily demands world-affirmation, his ambition to de-deify the world, and the impossible and undesirable autonomy of the Übermensch. But Nietzsche is shown to offer modernity key elements of a coherent ethic, and to provide moral philosophy with important tools for reassessing some of its most cherished values and concepts. May's book will be illuminating not just for scholars and students of Nietzsche, in philosophy, literature, and history of ideas, but for anyone interested in current debates about ethics and modernity.

Nietzsche's Mirror

Nietzsche's Mirror
Author: Linda L. Williams
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2002-07-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0585385629

Nietzsche's Mirror introduces the reader to one of the most central and pervasive themes in Friedrich Nietzsche's works—will to power. The book traces Nietzsche's use of the terms 'power,' 'will,' and 'will to power' as they are presented in both the works he authorized for publication and his literary remains, called the Nachlass. The author demonstrates that will to power as it is presented in the Nachlass differs from the way it is presented in the works Nietzsche authorized for publication before his collapse in 1889. Then it is argued that the problems that the Nachlass poses for scholars suggests that the Nachlass material should not be held in the same regard as the works Nietzsche authorized for publication. Because of the discrepancy between the published and unpublished writings, will to power should not be interpreted as a metaphysical principle operating behind the world, since the metaphysical-sounding passages are located in the Nachlass, but rather as a tool for interpreting relations, especially human relations, within the world. The final chapter examines Nietzsche's unique style of writing, which the author calls 'mirror writing.' Mirror writing is a technique Nietzsche deliberately employs in order to have such visionary themes as will to power, master morality, and eternal recurrence reflect the reader's values back to himself. Since this book is meant to be an introduction to will to power, at the end of each chapter is a list of additional books, so that the reader can delve further into the themes presented in the chapter, such as Nietzsche's biography, ethics, writings on truth, and eternal recurrence.

Nietzsche's Zarathustra

Nietzsche's Zarathustra
Author: Kathleen Marie Higgins
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2010
Genre:
ISBN: 0739120867

Nietzsche's Zarathustra is a guide through the convoluted territory of Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra. It shows the philosophical significance of the fictional format as a means to simultaneously propose alternatives to traditional dogmas within the Western tradition and reveal the danger of mistaking doctrinal formulations for living philosophical insight.

Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Author: James Luchte
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2008-09-17
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1441107401

Nietzsche famously regarded Thus Spoke Zarathustra as his greatest work. However, despite Nietzsche's pervasive influence upon the philosopher and non-philosopher alike, and his own intense regard for Zarathustra, there has been relatively little serious study of Nietzsche's magnum opus. This book seeks to address this gap in the available literature by taking Thus Spoke Zarathustra seriously, not only with respect to its impact on the interpretation of Nietzsche's philosophy, but also in light of the broader questions of the relationships between poetry, philosophy and existence. Fifteen leading Nietzsche scholars examine the structure, method, style and sources of Zarathustra as a philosophical text and its relationship to methodological and metaphilosophical questions amid the broader discussions of philosophy. The book also explores the implications of the philosophical questioning, interventions and teachings of Zarathustra with respect to both its negative engagement with the tradition and its attempt to set forth something new under the sun in its affirmative overcoming of nihilism.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche
Author: Tracy B. Strong
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 810
Release: 2017-05-15
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1351935623

From his first readers to the present, Friedrich Nietzsche has found supporters and detractors on every point of the political spectrum. In the introduction to this volume, Tracy Strong analyzes the reasons for this diversity of reception. They are to be found, not only in modern social and political developments but, more importantly, in the purpose and style of Nietzsche's writing. The volume includes selections from all major interpretive schools, including some from the early part of the twentieth century, an appendix presenting a new translation of one of Nietzsche's most controversial writings, The Greek State, and a lengthy bibliography of writings on Nietzsche and politics. The essays gathered together in this volume are the work of the most seminal Nietzsche scholars and, taken together, provide a comprehensive study of Nietzsche's political thought.

Nietzsche's Postmoralism

Nietzsche's Postmoralism
Author: Richard Schacht
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2001
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780521640855

An important collection of essays offering a full assessment of Nietzsche's contribution to philosophy, first published in 2000.