Author: Friedrich Nietzsche,Raymond Geuss,Ronald Speirs Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 873 Category: Philosophy Page: 165 View: 9011 The Birth of Tragedy is one of the seminal philosophical works of the modern period. Nietzsche's discussion of the nature of culture, of the conditions under which it can flourish and of those under which it will decline, his analysis of the sources of discontent with the modern world, his criticism of rationalism and of traditional morality, his aesthetic theories and his conception of the 'Dionysiac' have had a profound influence on the philosophy, literature, music, and politics of the twentieth century. This edition presents a new translation by Ronald Speirs and an introduction by Raymond Geuss that sets the work in its historical and philosophical context. The volume also includes two essays on related topics that Nietzsche wrote during the same period, and that throw further light on the themes treated in the main text.
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A Book for Free Spirits Author: Friedrich Nietzsche Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 046 Category: Philosophy Page: 400 View: 7488 This volume presents Nietzsche's remarkable collection of almost 1400 aphorisms in R. Hollingdale's distinguished translation, together with a new historical introduction by Richard Schacht. Subtitled 'A Book for Free Spirits,' Human, All Too Human marked for Nietzsche a new 'positivism' and skepticism with which he challenged his previous metaphysical and psychological assumptions. Nearly all the themes of his later work are displayed here with characteristic perceptiveness and honesty-not to say suspicion and irony-in language of great brio. It remains one of the fundamental works for an understanding of his thought. Negotiating the Boundary between Subject and Object Author: Ferdia J.
ISSN 1908-7330. Point well when a man named Socrates was condemned to death, proof rather. The new philosophers, artists, and saints (Nietzsche, 1983: 159) who were.
Stone-Davis Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers ISBN: Category: Philosophy Page: 228 View: 9761 This book offers an important new perspective on the Western tradition of musical aesthetics through an examination of Anicius Boethius and Immanuel Kant. Within the trajectory illuminated by these two thinkers, musical meaning is framed by and formed through the concept of beauty-a concept which is shaped by prior understandings about notions of the self and the world. Beauty opens up a space within which the boundary between the self and the world, subject and object, is negotiated and configured. In doing so, either the subject or the object is asserted to the detriment of the other, and to the physicality of music. This book asserts that the uniqueness of music's ontology emerges from its basis in sound and embodied practice. It suggests that musical beauty is generated by the mutuality of subject and object arising within the participation that music encourages, one which involves an ekstatic mode of attention on the part of the subject. Author: Paul Raimond Daniels Publisher: Routledge ISBN: Category: Philosophy Page: 256 View: 8177 Nietzsche's philosophy - at once revolutionary, erudite and deep - reaches into all spheres of the arts.
Well into a second century of influence, the profundity of his ideas and the complexity of his writings still determine Nietzsche's power to engage his readers. His first book, 'The Birth of Tragedy', presents us with a lively inquiry into the existential meaning of Greek tragedy. We are confronted with the idea that the awful truth of our existence can be revealed through tragic art, whereby our relationship to the world transfigures from pessimistic despair into sublime elation and affirmation. It is a landmark text in his oeuvre and remains an important book both for newcomers to Nietzsche and those wishing to enrich their appreciation of his mature writings. 'Nietzsche and The Birth of Tragedy' provides a clear account of the text and explores the philosophical, literary and historical influences bearing upon it.
Each chapter examines part of the text, explaining the ideas presented and assessing relevant scholarly points of interpretation. The book will be an invaluable guide to readers in Philosophy, Literary Studies and Classics coming to 'The Birth of Tragedy' for the first time. Author: Friedrich Nietzsche,Daniel Breazeale,R. Hollingdale Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 842 Category: Philosophy Page: 276 View: 640 The four early essays in Untimely Meditations are key documents for understanding the development of Nietzsche's thought and clearly anticipate many of his later writings. They deal with such broad topics as the relationship between popular and genuine culture, strategies for cultural reform, the task of philosophy, t he nature of education, and the relationship between art, science and life. This new edition presents R. Hollingdale's translation of the essays and a new introduction by Daniel Breazeale, who places them in their historical context and discusses their significance for Nietzsche's philosophy.
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche,Keith Ansell-Pearson Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 109 Category: History Page: 205 View: 1704 A Genealogy of Morality is Nietzsche's most important work on morality. A polemical contribution to moral and political theory, it traces the history of concepts such as guilt, responsibility, and justice, offering insight into Nietzsche's assessment of modern times as the epoch of nihilism. This volume contains new translations of the Genealogy and The Greek State and sections from other of Nietzsche's work to which he refers within it (Human All Too Human, Daybreak, The Joyful Science, and Beyond Good and Evil).
. 132 Downloads. Abstract Nietzsche was a philosopher, not a biologist, Nevertheless his philosophical thought was deeply influenced by ideas emerging from the evolutionary biology of the nineteenth century. His relationship to the Darwinism of his time is difficult to disentangle. It is argued that he was in a sense an unwitting Darwinist. It follows that his philosophical thought is of considerable interest to those concerned to develop an evolutionary biology of mankind.
His approach can be likened to that of an extraterrestrial sociobiologist studying “clever beasts. In some out of the way corner of the universe.” It is shown how be uses this viewpoint to account for the origin of the central psychobiology of humankind: for dualistic philosophies, such as that of Descartes (which Ryle famously called ‘the official doctrine’), for human notions of ‘truth’ and ‘falsehood’, ‘being’ and ‘becoming’, and for other fundamental concepts of Western philosophy and science. All these, he argues, are no more and no less than the necessary adaptations of a zoological species, Homo sapiens, in its ‘struggle for life’ in a Darwinian world. It is concluded that Nietzsche was the first philosopher to accept and use in their full depth the philosophical implications of nineteeth-century evolutionism, implications which are still resisted to this day. It is also argued that this interpretation of Nietzsche's aphoristic writings provides them with an organic consistency.