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Abstract: One of the best-known passages in Nietzsche's work is the section of The Gay Science entitled "The Greatest Weight" (GS 341). It consists of two parts: a scenario in which a "demon" tells you that your life must be lived again, infinitely many times, and a commentary that describes two ways in which a hearer might respond to the demon's message:1 "Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus' Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: 'You are a god and never have I heard anything more godlike!'" The reasons for these responses are then given. The first hearer is apparently "crushed" by the "greatest weight" of the section title.2 ... Read More PubDate: 2024-05-19T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: In Nietzsche: Life as Literature (1985), Alexander Nehamas observed that "Nietzsche's view [of the soul] … is surprisingly similar to Plato's analysis of the soul in the Republic. Both divide the subject, both depend on a political metaphor for the self, and both are faced with the problem of relocating the agent once they have accomplished their division."1 Since then, Nietzsche scholars have often returned to these supposed similarities.2 Nonetheless, a sustained comparative analysis of Plato's and Nietzsche's conceptions of the human soul is still missing. My aim in this article is to contribute to that task by focusing on the ways in which Plato and Nietzsche "divide the subject," as Nehamas has it.According to ... Read More PubDate: 2024-05-19T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: In the preface to the second edition of GS, Nietzsche ends his opening aphorism with a new and unexpected invocation: "'Incipit tragœdia' we read at the end of this awesomely aweless book. Beware! Something downright wicked and malicious is announced here: incipit parodia, no doubt" (GS P:1).1 There are no mentions of parody in the first edition of GS. Tragedy, on the other hand, is of central importance to the text. Nietzsche closes the first edition with a passage titled "incipit tragœdia," where he presents the prologue of Z to suggest that "the tragedy begins" with that text (GS 342). He also opens the first edition with the claim that "we still live in the age of tragedy, the age of moralities and religions" ... Read More PubDate: 2024-05-19T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Nietzsche believes that "the influence of science has already acquired [considerable] depth and breadth" (D 433), but "to complete the de-deification of nature," he informs us, we must "begin to 'naturalize' humanity" (GS 109).1 "Hardened in the discipline of science," humanity should view itself as it views "the rest of nature" (BGE 230). If what it means to be a naturalist is to deny the supernatural and, in some sense, privilege science, Nietzsche is evidently a naturalist, but beyond this minimal description, what his naturalism entails is disputed. Even among those scholars who thematize his naturalism ("the naturalists"), there are strong disagreements as to its features.Clarifying Nietzsche's naturalism is ... Read More PubDate: 2024-05-19T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Without a doubt, Nietzsche's political philosophy is one of the most elusive and ambiguous features of his corpus. How else can we explain the dizzying, even contradictory, variety of interpretations of Nietzsche's politics' Some read him as anti-political or a liberal skeptical of state power. For others, he is an aristocratic radical, obsessed with using state power to entrench a new class of Übermenschen. For still others, his thought is most compatible with democracy, as his defenses of perspectivism and agonism are best realized within a democratic political system. Finally, some other scholars throw up their hands and say that Nietzsche's political thought is incoherent.In this two-volume work, Donovan ... Read More PubDate: 2024-05-19T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: One might imagine making a rough division between two different modes of modern European philosophy. In one, the way that the world seems to proceed belies the actual ground of things; the task of philosophy is to uncover the sources of our misunderstanding and identify the categories that account for genuinely real processes. The other mode of philosophy questions the determinacy and stability of the categories through which we make sense of the world. Here the task of philosophy is not to settle on the right categories or the actual ground, but to gain some purchase on our confusions and self-deceptions when we try to make sense of things. There may be some philosophers (Hegel and Wittgenstein, perhaps) who try ... Read More PubDate: 2024-05-19T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Daniel Came's most recent edited collection features original essays from leading figures in the field. As most of its chapters are well-written and well-argued, it will interest Nietzsche scholars generally. It's difficult to narrow the volume's intended audience much further than this, however. The source of this difficulty is not merely titular, though one wonders what aspects of Nietzsche's philosophy could not plausibly be yoked under the dual headings of "morality" and "life affirmation." Rather, the difficulty stems from a shortcoming of Nietzsche's. As Came puts the point in his introduction, "Nietzsche is greatly more forthcoming in his diagnosis of the life-denying nature of morality than he is about what ... Read More PubDate: 2024-05-19T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: While every good philosopher engages a philosophical tradition in some way, the history of philosophy is more central to Nietzsche's work than to most. Insofar as a wide range of philosophers are implicated in a metaphysics and framework of values Nietzsche seeks to overturn, he is drawn into ongoing conversation with interlocutors spanning millennia. Moreover, as Mark Conard notes in the opening of this volume, Nietzsche engages the history of philosophy in order to critique the practice of philosophy itself. Nietzsche prepares a way for philosophers of the future, Conard suggests, by reinterpreting traditional philosophy and its exemplars (3). The motivation for this volume, which is devoted to Nietzsche's ... Read More PubDate: 2024-05-19T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: The same citation format is used throughout the journal. References to Nietzsche's texts are given in the body of the articles and reviews. References to Nietzsche's unpublished writings are standardized, whenever possible, to refer to the most accessible print editions of Nietzsche's notebooks and publications: Kritische Studienausgabe (ksa), compiled under the general editorship of Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari and based on the complete edition of the Kritische Gesamtausgabe (kgw) (Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1967ff) or the electronic version published in the Nietzsche Source collection (http://www.nietzschesource.org/eKGWB) [abbreviated ekgwb]). References to the print editions of letters ... Read More PubDate: 2024-05-19T00:00:00-05:00
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