Nietzsche on Morality and the Affirmation of Life

This volume brings together a number of new essays by leading Nietzsche scholars to examine the philosopher's famous critique of morality and his emphasis on life-affirming values.

List of contents

• Introduction


• 1: Ken Gemes: Nietzsche, Nihilism, and the Paradox of Affirmation


• 2: Daniel Came: Nietzsche as a Christian Thinker


• 3: Bernard Reginster: Ressentiment , Power, and Value


• 4: Maudemarie Clark: On the 'Meaning' of the Ascetic Ideal: A Normative Interpretation of GM III


• 5: Patrick Hassan: Organic Unity and the Heroic: Nietzsche's Aestheticization of Suffering


• 6: Andrew Huddleston: Affirmation, Admirable Overvaluation, and the Eternal Recurrence


• 7: Christopher Janaway: Who -- or What -- Says Yes to Life?


• 8: Tom Stern: Against Nietzsche's Theory of Affirmation


• 9: Edward Kanterian: Life's Affirmation and Denial

About the author

Daniel Came is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Lincoln. His main areas of research are the philosophy of religion and post-Kantian European philosophy, especially Schopenhauer and Nietzsche. He has also written on the ethics/aesthetics distinction and the philosophy of immortality.

Summary

This volume brings together a number of new essays by leading Nietzsche scholars to examine the philosopher's famous critique of morality and his emphasis on life-affirming values.

Product details

• Authors: Daniel Came, Daniel (Senior Lecturer and Programme Leader Came
• Assisted by: Came (Editor), Daniel Came (Editor), Came Daniel (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2022
• EAN: 9780198728894
• ISBN: 978-0-19-872889-4
• No. of pages: 232
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Ethics & moral philosophy, Philosophy: aesthetics, Ethics and moral philosophy, Phenomenology & Existentialism, Phenomenology and Existentialism