Author: Tsarina DoylePublisher:
ISBN: 1108417280
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
Presents a fresh interpretation of Nietzsche's controversial account of nature and value in relation to Kant and Hume.
The Will to Power
Author: Friedrich NietzschePublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781979842891
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Friedrich Nietzsche's classic and tremendously influential work exploring the concept he referred to as "The Will to Power" (ambition and striving for achievement) as the driving force in humanity. Nietzsche touches on religion, morality, science, and other fields. The work is divided into four books included within this volume: First Book: European Nihilism, Second Book: Criticism of the Highest Values that Have Prevailed Hitherto, Third Book: The Principles of A New Valuation, and Fourth Book: Discipline and Breeding.
Nietzsche's Sister and the Will to Power
Author: Carol DiethePublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252054695
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
A penetrating study of the sister who betrayed and endangered her famous brother's legacy In 1901, a year after her brother Friedrich's death, Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche published The Will to Power, a hasty compilation of writings he had never intended for print. In Nietzsche's Sister and the Will to Power, Carol Diethe contends that Förster-Nietzsche's own will to power and her desire to place herself--not her brother--at the center of cultural life in Germany are centrally responsible for Nietzsche's reputation as a belligerent and proto-Fascist thinker. Offering a new look at Nietzsche's sister from a feminist perspective, this spirited and erudite biography examines why Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche recklessly consorted with anti-Semites, from her own husband to Hitler himself, out of convenience and a desire for revenge against a brother whose love for her waned after she caused the collapse of his friendship with Lou Salomé. The book also examines their family dynamics, Nietzsche's dismissal of his sister's early writing career, and the effects of limited education on intelligent women. Diethe concludes by detailing Förster-Nietzsche's brief marriage and her subsequent colonial venture in Paraguay, maintaining that her sporadic anti-Semitism was, like most things in her life, an expedient tool for cultivating personal success and status. A volume in the series International Nietzsche Studies, edited by Richard Schacht
Author: Ralph Waldo EmersonThe Will to Power
Author: Friedrich NietzschePublisher: Jovian Press
ISBN: 1537808737
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
The will to power is a prominent concept in the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche. The will to power describes what Nietzsche may have believed to be the main driving force in humans - achievement, ambition, and the striving to reach the highest possible position in life. These are all manifestations of the will to power; however, the concept was never systematically defined in Nietzsche's work, leaving its interpretation open to debate.
Author: Friedrich NietzscheReading Nietzsche
Author: Robert C. SolomonPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195066739
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Paying particular attention to the issue of how to read Nietzsche, this book presents a series of accessible essays on the work of this influential German philosopher. The contributions include many of the leading Nietzsche scholars in the United States today - Frithjof Bergmann, Arthur Danto, Bernd Magnus, Christopher Middleton, Lars Gustaffson, Alexander Nehamas, Richard Schacht, Gary Shapiro, and Ivan Soll - and the majority of the essays have never been published. Works discussed include On the Genealogy of Morals, Beyond Good and Evil, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Twilight of the Idols, and The Will to Power.
Will to Power, Nietzsche's Last Idol
Author: Jean-Etienne JoulliéPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137363193
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
The book proposes a critique of Nietzsche's works 'from within'. In doing so, it answers the continuing question asked by any reader of Nietzsche: Why did he decide not to write the major work he said he would write?
Nietzsche's Mirror
Author: Linda L. WilliamsPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN: 0585385629
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Nietzsche's Mirror introduces the reader to one of the most central and pervasive themes in Friedrich Nietzsche's works—will to power. The book traces Nietzsche's use of the terms 'power,' 'will,' and 'will to power' as they are presented in both the works he authorized for publication and his literary remains, called the Nachlass. The author demonstrates that will to power as it is presented in the Nachlass differs from the way it is presented in the works Nietzsche authorized for publication before his collapse in 1889. Then it is argued that the problems that the Nachlass poses for scholars suggests that the Nachlass material should not be held in the same regard as the works Nietzsche authorized for publication. Because of the discrepancy between the published and unpublished writings, will to power should not be interpreted as a metaphysical principle operating behind the world, since the metaphysical-sounding passages are located in the Nachlass, but rather as a tool for interpreting relations, especially human relations, within the world. The final chapter examines Nietzsche's unique style of writing, which the author calls 'mirror writing.' Mirror writing is a technique Nietzsche deliberately employs in order to have such visionary themes as will to power, master morality, and eternal recurrence reflect the reader's values back to himself. Since this book is meant to be an introduction to will to power, at the end of each chapter is a list of additional books, so that the reader can delve further into the themes presented in the chapter, such as Nietzsche's biography, ethics, writings on truth, and eternal recurrence.
The Affirmation of Life
Author: Bernard REGINSTERPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674042646
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
While most recent studies of Nietzsche's works have lost sight of the fundamental question of the meaning of a life characterized by inescapable suffering, Bernard Reginster's book The Affirmation of Life brings it sharply into focus. Reginster identifies overcoming nihilism as a central objective of Nietzsche's philosophical project, and shows how this concern systematically animates all of his main ideas.
