Nietzsche and the Becoming of Life /

Nietzsche and the Becoming of Life / / Vanessa Lemm.

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Throughout his writing career Nietzsche advocated the affirmation of earthly life as a way to counteract nihilism and asceticism. This volume takes stock of the complexities and wide-ranging perspectives that Nietzsche brings to bear on the problem of life’s becoming on Earth by engaging various int...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
VerfasserIn:
Lemm, Vanessa,
MitwirkendeR:
Ansell-Pearson, Keith,
Babich, Babette,
Bergoffen, Debra,
Cano, Virginia,
Conway, Daniel,
Cragnolini, Mónica B.,
Cruz, Mariana A.,
Hanshe, Rainer J.,
Hatab, Lawrence J.,
Jenkins, Scott,
Lemm, Vanessa,
Miyasaki, Donovan,
Nasser, Eduardo,
Shapiro, Gary,
Strong, Tracy B.,
Thomä, Dieter,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2014]
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
Series:Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
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Physical Description:1 online resource (424 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • PART I : CONTESTING NIETZSCHE’S NATURALISM
  • 1 The Optics of Science, Art, and Life
  • 2 Nietzsche, Nature, and Life Affirmation
  • PART II: EVOLUTION, TELEOLOGY, AND THE LAWS OF NATURE
  • 3 Is Evolution Blind?
  • 4 Nietzsche and the Nineteenth- Century Debate on Teleology
  • 5 Nietzsche’s Conception of “Necessity” and Its Relation to “Laws of Nature”
  • PART III: JUSTICE AND THE LAW OF LIFE
  • 6 Life and Justice in Nietz sche’s Conception of History
  • 7 Life, Injustice, and Recurrence
  • 8 Heeding the Law of Life
  • PART IV: THE BECOMING OF A NEW BODY AND SENSIBILITY
  • 9 Toward the Body of the Overman
  • 10 Nietzsche’s Synaesthetic Epistemology and the Restitution of the Holistic Human
  • 11 Nietzsche’s Naturalist Morality of Breeding: A Critique of Eugenics as Taming
  • 12 An “Other Way of Being.”
  • PART V: PURIFICATION AND THE FREEDOM OF DEATH
  • 13 Nietzsche and the Transformation of Death
  • 14 Becoming and Purification
  • PART VI: THE BECOMING OF THE SOUL: NOMADISM AND SELF-EXPERIMENT
  • 15 “Falling in Love with Becoming”
  • 16 “We Are Experiments”
  • 17 States and Nomads
  • Notes
  • List of Contributors
  • Index

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