Tag: nietzsche
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‘Essays on Schopenhauer and Nietzsche: Values and the Will of Life’ by Christopher Janaway
Christopher Janaway’s Essays on Schopenhauer and Nietzsche: Values and the Will of Life advances a precise scholarly stake: it shows, across fourteen carefully argued studies, how Schopenhauer’s conception of will to life and Nietzsche’s critique and revaluation of values intersect at the level of first-order psychological explanation, second-order evaluative grammar, and the conditions of aesthetic…
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Schopenhauer and Nietzsche
Simmel’s Schopenhauer and Nietzsche advances a precise and programmatic claim: by staging a double inquiry into pessimism and exuberant moralism as temperaments that crystallize into systems, Simmel demonstrates how philosophy of life becomes a diagnostic instrument for the modern crisis of meaning, while also exposing the intrinsic antinomies that any such instrument generates. The distinctive…
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Friedrich Nietzsche – Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None (1883–1885)
Nietzsche · WorksNietzscheCollected WorksCritical Edition Edited byGiorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari Sixth DivisionVolume OneWalter de Gruyter & Co.Berlin 1968 Friedrich NietzscheThus Spoke ZarathustraA Book for All and None(1883–1885) Walter de Gruyter & Co.Berlin 1968Archive No. 3659681 © 1968 by Walter de Gruyter & Co., formerly G. J. Göschen’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung —J. Guttentag, Verlagsbuchhandlung — Georg Reimer…
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Welt und Zeit—Of the Abyss & the Void, 20:27—22. February 2025
In the tremors of our contemporary world, where the horizon of certainty has fractured under the weight of unprecedented shifts, one confronts two primordial dimensions that shape every aspect of existence: the abyss and the void. The two, at once unsettling and generative, stand at the heart of the human project, calling into question the…
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Friedrich Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human
The following text is a depiction so unrelenting in the thoroughness of its philosophical inquiry, so immoderate in the density of its conceptual detail, that it seems to stand as a great cavern of thought into which the attentive reader must plunge, armed with nothing but the steadfastness of one’s reason and the lucidity of…
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Nietzsche and the Shadow of God
Nietzsche and the Shadow of God is a work that ventures into the fraught terrain where Nietzsche’s philosophy confronts the two-thousand-year-old religious heritage of the West. Didier Franck’s study, here introduced for the first time to English-speaking audiences through a careful and readable translation by Bettina Bergo and Philippe Farah, does not aim at either…
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Friedrich Nietzsche’s The Gay Science: With a Prelude in German Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
This new edition of Friedrich Nietzsche’s The Gay Science, with a Prelude in German Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs, translated by Josefine Nauckhoff and introduced by Bernard Williams, offers a transformative encounter with one of Nietzsche’s central works, a text that the philosopher himself once described as “perhaps my most personal book.” Written at…
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Nietzsche’s Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits (Revised Edition)
In approaching the Revised Edition of Friedrich Nietzsche’s Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits, as translated by Marion Faber and Stephen Lehmann, with an introduction and introductory notes by Arthur C. Danto, one is immediately struck by the unique historical and philosophical significance of this work and by the profound care with…
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Friedrich Nietzsche’s Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
Friedrich Nietzsche’s Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits presents a striking departure from his earlier, more romantic and metaphysical works, marking a pivotal moment in his intellectual evolution. This collection, which contains almost 1,400 aphorisms, was originally published in three installments between 1878 and 1880. It reflects Nietzsche’s shift from his previous…
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Friedrich Nietzsche’s The Dawn of Day
Friedrich Nietzsche’s The Dawn of Day (1881), translated by J. M. Kennedy, is a seminal work in the development of Nietzsche’s philosophical journey, bridging his earlier explorations and his later, more fully developed ideas. The book, a collection of aphorisms and prose poems, represents a profound moment in Nietzsche’s intellectual maturation. Written during a period…
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Nietzsche: Daybreak – Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality
In Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality, Nietzsche embarks on a bold critique of traditional morality that not only challenges its assumptions but also lays the groundwork for his larger philosophical project—a radical revaluation of values that would come to define his mature work. The book represents a significant turning point in Nietzsche’s intellectual…
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Nietzsche’s Enlightenment: The Free-Spirit Trilogy of the Middle Period
In Nietzsche’s Enlightenment: The Free-Spirit Trilogy of the Middle Period, Paul Franco offers a comprehensive and insightful presentation of Friedrich Nietzsche’s works from his so-called middle period, a phase often overlooked or misunderstood in the broader sweep of Nietzschean scholarship. This middle period consists of three central works—Human, All Too Human, Daybreak, and The Gay…
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Nietzsche’s Journey to Sorrento: Genesis of the Philosophy of the Free Spirit
Nietzsche’s Journey to Sorrento: Genesis of the Philosophy of the Free Spirit by Paolo D’Iorio, as translated by Sylvia Gorelick, offers an in-depth and revealing portrait of Friedrich Nietzsche during a pivotal moment in his life and philosophy. In this compelling narrative, D’Iorio goes into the deep transformation Nietzsche experienced while spending time in southern…
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Nietzsche’s Free Spirit Philosophy
In Nietzsche’s Free Spirit Philosophy, Rebecca Bamford brings together an eclectic and sophisticated array of essays that illuminate the largely under-explored yet foundational concept of the “free spirit” in Nietzsche’s philosophy. This concept, which emerges in Nietzsche’s middle period, is particularly prominent in works like Human, All Too Human, Dawn (or Daybreak), and The Gay…
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Nietzsche’s Free Spirit Works: A Dialectical Reading
Matthew Meyer’s Nietzsche’s Free Spirit Works: A Dialectical Reading offers a key interpretation of Nietzsche’s middle period works, which span from 1878 to 1882 and include Human, All Too Human, Assorted Opinions and Maxims, The Wanderer and His Shadow, Daybreak, and The Gay Science. These texts, often dismissed as mere collections of aphorisms, are, according…
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Zarathustra’s Moral Tyranny: Spectres of Kant, Hegel and Feuerbach
Zarathustra’s Moral Tyranny: Spectres of Kant, Hegel, and Feuerbach by Francesca Cauchi is a philosophical analysis that reshapes our understanding of Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra, often regarded as one of his most enigmatic and richly layered texts. Cauchi provocatively reinterprets Zarathustra not merely as a herald of values opposed to Christianity, but as an advocate…
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