Affectivity and Philosophy After Spinoza and Nietzsche - Making Knowledge the Most Powerful Affect

Informationen zum Autor Stuart Pethick is an independent writer and researcher within early modern and modern European philosophy with a special interest in the relationship between affectivity, ideas and language. Klappentext Pethick investigates a much neglected philosophical connection between two of the most controversial figures in the history of philosophy: Spinoza and Nietzsche. By examining the crucial role that affectivity plays in their philosophies, this book claims that the two philosophers share the common goal of making knowledge the most powerful affect. Zusammenfassung Pethick investigates a much neglected philosophical connection between two of the most controversial figures in the history of philosophy: Spinoza and Nietzsche. By examining the crucial role that affectivity plays in their philosophies! this book claims that the two philosophers share the common goal of making knowledge the most powerful affect. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. Spinoza: Discovering What the Body Can Do 2. Nietzsche: The Sign Language of the Affects 3. Will-to-power: Redeeming the Body from the Ascetic Ideal 4. Making Knowledge the Most Powerful Affect

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Stuart Pethick
• Verlag: Palgrave UK
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 31.10.2015
• EAN: 9781137486059
• ISBN: 978-1-137-48605-9
• Seiten: 261
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Philosophie > Allgemeines, Lexika; Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Naturwissenschaften allgemein; Sachbuch > Philosophie, Religion > Philosophie: Antike bis Gegenwart; B, Philosophy of Language, Ethics, Philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, History of Philosophy, Modern philosophy: since c 1800, Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics, Language and languages—Philosophy, Palgrave Religion & Philosophy Collection, Modern Philosophy, Early Modern Philosophy