Nietzsche's injunction to examine “the value of values” can be heard in a pragmatic key, as inviting us to consider not whether certain values are true, but what they do for us. This oddly neglected ...pragmatic approach to Nietzsche now receives authoritative support from Bernard Reginster's new book, which offers a compelling and notably cohesive interpretation of Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morality. In this essay, I reconstruct Reginster's account of Nietzsche's critique of morality as a “self‐undermining functionality critique” and raise three problems for it: (i) Is there room within an etiological conception of function for the notion of self‐undermining functionality? (ii) If Nietzsche's critique is internal and based solely on the function it ascribes to morality, where does that critique derive its normative significance from? (iii) Does Reginster's account not make out ascetic morality to be more universally dysfunctional than it is, given that some priestly types have done remarkably well out of morality?
That Schopenhauer's view of Buddhism influenced Wagner's and Nietzsche's Buddhism seems a commonplace among scholars. However, there seem to be no studies which actually demonstrated this, showing ...how Schopenhauer was their main source of Buddhism compared to the other Buddhist texts they read. In this article, I aim to fill this gap, analysing Wagner's and Nietzsche's Buddhism in the light of the sources of Buddhism they read. This will allow me to demonstrate how Schopenhauer was the main source of Buddhism for both Wagner and Nietzsche, having a deep and long-lasting impact on their conceptions of Buddhism.
In section 24 of The Antichrist, Nietzsche notes a problem namely “the origin of Christianity.” He offers two propositions toward its solution: the first is that “Christianity can only be understood ...on the soil where it grew:” and the second is that “the psychological type of the Galilean is still recognizable, but it had to assume a completely degenerate form (simultaneously mutilated and full of alien features) before it came to be used as a redeemer of humanity” (A 24). Significantly this passage suggests that the origins of Christianity rest on a reinterpretation of the type of the redeemer. This paper seeks to clarify the nature of such a modification and to identify some of its key ramifications. After clarifying the type, the paper argues that the type, thus understood, serves as a link between the texts On the Genealogy of Morality and The Antichrist and, as such, reveals the connection between Nietzsche's genealogical methods and the wider project of reevaluation. Though this reading is not the standard interpretive strategy, the paper argues that it is the strategy that Nietzsche himself recommends.
Philosophers have cataloged a range of genealogical methods by which different sorts of normative conclusions can be established. Although such methods provide diverging ways of pursuing genealogical ...inquiry, they typically converge in eschewing historiographic methodology, in favor of a uniquely philosophical approach. In contrast, one genealogist who drew on historiographic methodology is Michel Foucault. This article presents the motivations and advantages of Foucault's genealogical use of such a methodology. It advances two mains claims. First, that Foucault's early 1970s work employs a distinct genealogical method, which borrows from contemporary historiographic models of explanation to expand the range of objects that are proper to genealogical accounts of historical change. I demonstrate how Foucault modifies two central commitments of Nietzsche by broadening the dimensions of genealogical inquiry and explanation. Second, that historical method has normative relevance for genealogy, insofar as different historiographic choices can lead to different normative conclusions. I motivate this second claim by explaining how Foucault's multidimensional genealogical method expands both (a) the range of objects that are subject to evaluative assessment, and (b) the set of possible prescriptive recommendations that follow from such assessment.
This paper explores Nietzsche's philosophy in D. H. Lawrence's novel Women in Love. The novel's characters are created by the use of four key philosophical concepts of Nietzsche. Four key concepts ...from Nietzsche's philosophy are scrutinized: Revaluation of all values, the Overman, the Will to Power and the Last Man - the Blond Beast. D. H. Lawrence uses philosophical concepts to make his characters stand against each other and look vibrant. By analyzing the novel and manifesting Nietzsche's philosophy in the background of the novel this paper paves way for further research into classic novel and analysis of novels through philosophy.
In this article I argue that Nietzsche understands history as physiological history and that he takes the history of the body that he advances to be a repudiation of Christianity. Nietzsche’s body is ...the body as a coalition of drives (Triebe); in Antichrist, Nietzsche records Paul’s attempt to write the body out of history. The death of God represents a dawning self-awareness on the part of the body, such that Christianity’s disembodied history becomes untenable, providing an opening for Nietzsche’s form of history to assert itself at Christianity’s expense. However, I challenge the degree to which Nietzsche’s own sense of history is actually anti-Christian. I do this by initiating a dialogue between Nietzsche’s history and that presented in Augustine’s City of God, asking whether The City of God really is guilty of the suppression of the body of which Nietzsche accuses Paul and, by extension, Christianity. Through this intertextual engagement, we see there is a stronger Christian vestige in Nietzsche’s historical outlook than he is willing to admit. For both Nietzsche and Augustine, the truly historical paradigm depends on a certain asceticism that is not only a prescriptive or ethical stance but a deep conviction about the way things are. If we understand Nietzsche on his own terms, he might even be said to have radicalized Augustine’s Christian asceticism in his engagement of the body and history, by making the suffering of the body eternal.
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A Brief Hystery of the Phantasm Santiago, Christopher
Anthropology of consciousness,
03/2023, Letnik:
34, Številka:
1
Journal Article
Recenzirano
This article traces the radical devaluation of the phantasm throughout Western civilization. With the help of Nietzsche’s critical perspective, I develop a notion of hystery as the series of ...collective traumas repeated in each individual’s growth, whereby the phantasm changes value from psychosomatic interface, to evil incarnate, to disease of learning. Beginning with the Classical episteme represented by Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoics, then moving up through the Christian era, I focus primarily on Enlightenment thinkers such as Hobbes and Bacon, who represent the last nail in the imagination’s coffin. The next section examines Nietzsche’s rediscovery of the phantasm and the theoretical contributions of post‐structuralism that follow in Nietzsche’s wake. Juxtaposing Bataille and Deleuze, I look at Deleuze’s early enthusiasm and ultimate betrayal of the phantasm, and I posit Bataille’s emphasis on the affective force of the mythological phantasm as an insurrection to reclaim our experience and life along with it. The article ends with speculation, offering Bruno’s art of memory as an ontic and epistemic alternative to dominant Western hystery, other pasts opening to other possible futures, an ungrounding that paradoxically leads to a restoration of the human house in a re‐enchanted cosmos.
Nietzsche und die Weltanschauungsliteratur Beßlich, Barbara
Scientia poetica : Jahrbuch für Geschichte der Literatur und der Wissenschaften,
12/2021, Letnik:
25, Številka:
1
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Abstract
The study aims to demonstrate the significance of Friedrich Nietzsche for ›Weltanschauungsliteratur‹ (ideological literature) in the early 20th century. ›Weltanschauungsliteratur‹ adopts ...thematic elements of Nietzsche’s cultural criticism. Nietzsche’s habitus of the outmoded academic outsider becomes important for the writers’ self-staging. ›Weltanschauungsliteratur‹ closely observes Nietzsche’s combination of philosophical reasoning and literary writing and develops it further. Finally, the article examines exemplary ›Weltanschauungsliteratur‹ by Salomo Friedländer, Theodor Lessing, Rudolf Pannwitz, and Ernst Bertram.
The debate focuses on the performative turn, not with a view to the overriding structural and semantic components of a musical work, nor to its hermeneutically decoded meaning, but rather to a ...performance's sensibilities as they pertain to the experiential quality of "presence." Von einer solchen, dezidiert körperlichen "Ansteckung"6 des Wagner'schen Musiktheaters handelt auch - nun freilich in einem neutraleren Verständnis - die folgende Passage aus George Bernard Shaws The Perfect Wagnerite: Wagner sought always for some point of contact between his ideas and the physical senses, so that people might not only think or imagine them in the eighteenth century fashion, but see them on the stage, hear them from the orchestra, and feel them through the infection of passionate emotion ...: on all occasions he Wagner insists on the need for sensuous apprehension to give reality to abstract comprehension, maintaining, in fact, that reality has no other meaning7. Music and Gesture, hg. von Anthony Gritten und Elaine King, Aldershot 2006, S. 45-60. Music and the Construction of National Identities in the 19th Century, hg. von Beat A. Föllmi u. a., Baden-Baden und Bouxwiller 2010 (Collection d'études musicologiques / Sammlung musikwissenschaftlicher Ab andlungen 98), S. 225-240, hier S. 226.
