Nietzsche, Philosophy and the Arts

Klappentext This collection of essays examines Nietzsche's aesthetic account of the origins and ends of philosophy. Zusammenfassung Nietzsche's writings have shaped much contemporary reflection on the relation between philosophy and art. This book brings together a number of distinguished contributors to examine his aesthetic account of the origins and ends of philosophy. Their essays set out the ground for future debate about the inter-relation between art! philosophy! and value. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Nietzsche and art Salim Kemal, Ivan Gaskell and Daniel W. Conway; 1. Nietzsche's conception of irony Ernst Behler; 2. The transfiguration of intoxication: Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Dionysus Martha Nussbaum; 3. Nietzschean self-transformation and the transformation of the Dionysian Adrian Del Caro; 4. Socratism and the question of aesthetic justification Randall Havas; 5. What is the meaning of Aesthetic ideals? Aaron Ridley; 6. The splitting of historical consciousness Stephen Bann; 7. Gustav Klimt's Beethoven Frieze, truth, and The Birth of Tragedy Timothy W. Hiles; 8. Improvisations, on Nietzsche/on jazz John Carvalho; 9. Unstable identities: Nietzsche on the force of art and language Fiona Jenkins; 10. Dionysus lost and found: literary genres in Nietzsche and Lukács Henry Staten; 11. Nietzsche's politics of aesthetic genius Salim Kemal; 12. Love's labour's lost: the philosopher's Versucherkunst Daniel W. Conway; 13. Nietzsche's Dionysian arts: dance, song, and silence Claudia Crawford.

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• Authors: Salim Kemal, Salim (University of Dundee) Gaskell Kemal, Salim Gaskell Kemal
• Assisted by: Daniel W. Conway (Editor), Ivan Gaskell (Editor), Salim Kemal (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.08.2002
• EAN: 9780521522724
• ISBN: 978-0-521-52272-4
• No. of pages: 368
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Philosoph
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day