[PDF] Nietzsche Biology And Metaphor eBook

Author : Gregory Moore
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 17,58 MB
Release : 2002-01-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 113943294X

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Nietzsche, Biology and Metaphor explores the German philosopher's response to the intellectual debates sparked by the publication of Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species. By examining the abundance of biological metaphors in Nietzsche's writings, Gregory Moore questions his recent reputation as an eminently subversive and (post-) modern thinker, and shows how deeply Nietzsche was immersed in late nineteenth-century debates on evolution, degeneration and race. The first part of the book provides a detailed study and interpretation of Nietzsche's much disputed relationship to Darwinism. Uniquely, Moore also considers the importance of Nietzsche's evolutionary perspective for the development of his moral and aesthetic philosophy. The second part analyzes key themes of Nietzsche's cultural criticism - his attack on the Judaeo-Christian tradition, his diagnosis of the nihilistic crisis afflicting modernity and his anti-Wagnerian polemics - against the background of fin-de-siècle fears about the imminent biological collapse of Western civilization.

Author : Sarah Kofman
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 30,22 MB
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780485120981

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This long-overdue translation brings to the English-speaking world the work that set the tone for the Post-structuralist reading of Nietzsche.

Author : Christa Davis Acampora
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 39,82 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780742514270

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'A Nietzschean Bestiary' gathers essays treating the most vivid & lively animal images in Nietzsche's work, such as the howling beast of prey, Zarathustra's laughing lions, & the notorious blond beast.

Author : Tim Murphy
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 40,8 MB
Release : 2001-10-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780791450888

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Presents a radically anti-foundationalist reading of Nietzsche's philosophy of religion.

Author : Tim Murphy
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 29,98 MB
Release : 2001-10-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0791490084

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Nietzsche argued that metaphor is at the basis of language, concepts, and perception, making it the vehicle by which humans interpret the world. As such, metaphor has profound consequences for the nature of religion and of philosophy. Nietzsche, Metaphor, Religion connects Nietzsche's early writings on rhetoric and metaphor, especially as understood by contemporary French philosophers and literary theorists, with Nietzsche's later writings on religion. The result is a radically anti-foundationalist reading of Nietzsche's "philosophy of religion" as an unending series of metaphoric-literary agons or contests.

Author : Vanessa Lemm
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 11,44 MB
Release : 2009-08-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0823230295

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“[Lemm] consolidates her reputation as one of Nietzsche’s most original, attentive, and lively readers.” —The Journal of Nietzsche Studies This book explores the significance of human animality in the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche, and provides the first systematic treatment of the animal theme in Nietzsche’s body of work. Vanessa Lemm argues that the animal is neither a random theme nor a metaphorical device in Nietzsche’s thought. Instead, it stands at the center of his renewal of the practice and meaning of philosophy itself. Lemm provides an original contribution to ongoing debates on the essence of humanism and its future. At the center of this new interpretation stands Nietzsche’s thesis that animal life and its potential for truth, history, and morality depends on a continuous antagonism between forgetfulness (animality) and memory (humanity). This relationship accounts for the emergence of humanity out of animality as a function of the antagonism between civilization and culture. By taking the antagonism of culture and civilization to be fundamental for Nietzsche’s conception of humanity and its becoming, Lemm gives a new entry point into the political significance of Nietzsche’s thought. The opposition between civilization and culture allows for the possibility that politics is more than a set of civilizational techniques that seek to manipulate, dominate, and exclude the animality of the human animal. By seeing the deep-seated connections of politics with culture, Nietzsche orients politics beyond the domination over life and, instead, offers the animality of the human being a positive, creative role in the organization of life. This book will appeal not only to those interested in Nietzsche, but to anyone interested in the theme of the animal in philosophy, literature, cultural studies, and the arts, as well as those interested in the relation between biological life and politics.

Author : Christian Emden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 42,33 MB
Release : 2014-05-29
Category : History
ISBN : 1107059631

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This book examines Nietzsche's philosophical naturalism both historically and philosophically, establishing a link between his discussions of nature and normativity.

Author : Kristen Brown Golden
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 11,13 MB
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0791482197

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In Nietzsche and Embodiment Kristen Brown reveals the smartness of bodies, challenging the traditional view in the West that bodies are separate from and morally inferior to minds. Drawing inspiration from Nietzsche, Brown vividly describes why the interdependence of mind and body matters, both in Nietzsche's writings and for contemporary debates (non-dualism theory, Merleau-Ponty criticism, and metaphor studies), activities (spinal cord research and fasting), and specific human experiences (menses, trauma, and guilt). Brown's theories about the dynamic relationship between body and mind provide new possibilities for self-understanding and experience.

Author : Emmelyn Butterfield-Rosen
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 32,86 MB
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 022674504X

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Figures of Thought: Poseuses and the Controversy of the Grande Jatte -- Beethoven's Farewell: The Creative Genius "in the Claws of the Secession" -- The Mise-en-scène of Dreams: L'Après-midi d'un faune.