Eros in Plato, Rousseau, and Nietzsche : : The Politics of Infinity / / Laurence D. Cooper.
Human beings are restless souls, ever driven by an insistent inner force not only to have more but to be more-to be infinitely more. Various philosophers have emphasized this type of ceaseless striving in their accounts of humanity, as in Spinoza's notion of conatus and Hobbes's identifica...
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction: The Oneness of Desire-But Which One
- 1 The Republic as Prologue
- PART ONE Platonic Eros-the Effectual Truth
- 2 First Truths
- 3 What Does Eros Want
- 4 Love of Wisdom versus Love of the Wise: Eros in Action
- PART TWO Rousseau and the Expansiveness of Being
- 5 Between Eros and Will to Power: Rousseau and ''The Desire to Extend Our Being''
- 6 Emile, or On Philosophy
- PART THREE Nietzsche's New Eternity
- 7 Nietzsche's Politeia, I
- 8 Nietzsche's Politeia, II
- 9 Will to Power versus Eros, or a Battle of Eternities
- Epilogue: One or Many
- References
- Index