Nietzsche On Art And Life

Author : Daniel Came
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191662895
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nietzsche on Art and Life written by Daniel Came and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nietzsche was not interested in the nature of art as such, or in providing an aesthetic theory of a traditional sort. For he regarded the significance of art to lie not in l'art pour l'art, but in the role that it might play in enabling us positively to 'revalue' the world and human experience. This volume brings together a number of distinguished figures in contemporary Anglo-American Nietzsche scholarship to examine his views on art and the aesthetic in the context of this wider philosophical project. All of the major themes of Nietzsche's aesthetics are discussed: art and the affirmation of life, the relationship between art and truth, music, tragedy, the nature of aesthetic experience, the role of art in Nietzsche's positive ethics, his critique of romanticism, and his ambivalent attitude towards Richard Wagner.

Author : Daniel Came
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199545960
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nietzsche on Art and Life written by Daniel Came and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-04 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nietzsche had a particular interest in the relationship between art and life, and in art's contribution to his philosophical aims—to identify the conditions of the affirmation of life, cultural renewal, and exemplary human living. These new essays demonstrate that understanding his engagement with art is essential for understanding his philosophy.

Author : Mark Anderson
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1472532899
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plato and Nietzsche written by Mark Anderson and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-08-28 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is commonly known that Nietzsche is one of Plato's primary philosophical antagonists, yet there is no full-length treatment in English of their ideas in dialogue and debate. Plato and Nietzsche is an advanced introduction to these two thinkers, with original insights and arguments interspersed throughout the text. Through a rigorous exploration of their ideas on art, metaphysics, ethics, and the nature of philosophy, and by explaining and analyzing each man's distinctive approach, Mark Anderson demonstrates the many and varied ways they play off against one another. This book provides the background necessary to understanding the principle matters at issue between these two philosophers and to developing an awareness that Nietzsche's engagement with Plato is deeper and more nuanced than it is often presented as being.

Author : Julian Young
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521455756
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nietzsche's Philosophy of Art written by Julian Young and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a clear and lucid account of Nietzsche's philosophy of art.

Author : Aaron Ridley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134375441
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Nietzsche on Art written by Aaron Ridley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-01-15 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nietzsche is one of the most important modern philosophers and his writings on the nature of art are amongst the most influential of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This GuideBook introduces and assesses: Nietzsche's life and the background to his writings on art the ideas and texts of his works which contribute to art, including The Birth of Tragedy, Human, All Too Human and Thus Spoke Zarathustra Nietzsche's continuing importance to philosophy and contemporary thought. This GuideBook will be essential reading for all students coming to Nietzsche for the first time.

Author : Babette E. Babich
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791418659
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nietzsche's Philosophy of Science written by Babette E. Babich and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alexander Nehamas
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674624269
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nietzsche, Life as Literature written by Alexander Nehamas and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than eighty years after his death, Nietzsche's writings and his career remain disquieting, disturbing, obscure. His most famous views--the will to power, the eternal recurrence, the bermensch, the master morality--often seem incomprehensible or, worse, repugnant. Yet he remains a thinker of singular importance, a great opponent of Hegel and Kant, and the source of much that is powerful in figures as diverse as Wittgenstein, Derrida, Heidegger, and many recent American philosophers. Alexander Nehamas provides the best possible guide for the perplexed. He reveals the single thread running through Nietzsche's views: his thinking of the world on the model of a literary text, of people as if they were literary characters, and of knowledge and science as if they were literary interpretation. Beyond this, he advances the clarity of the concept of textuality, making explicit some of the forces that hold texts together and so hold us together. Nehamas finally allows us to see that Nietzsche is creating a literary character out of himself, that he is, in effect, playing the role of Plato to his own Socrates. Nehamas discusses a number of opposing views, both American and European, of Nietzsche's texts and general project, and reaches a climactic solving of the main problems of Nietzsche interpretation in a step-by-step argument. In the process he takes up a set of very interesting questions in contemporary philosophy, such as moral relativism and scientific realism. This is a book of considerable breadth and elegance that will appeal to all curious readers of philosophy and literature.

Author : Stephen Donadio
Publisher : New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nietzsche, Henry James, and the Artistic Will written by Stephen Donadio and published by New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pioneering contribution to the history of modern ideas connects two commanding figures ordinarily considered worlds apart. Observing that philosophy and fiction are two activities which have 'always sustained and offered criticisms of one another,' Stephen Donadio sets out to explore the continuities of thought and feeling which link Nietzsche, a European philosopher whose work often appears to reflect a feverish attraction to extremity, and James, an American novelist commonly identified with decorous assertions of magisterial detachment. Moving beyond the boundaries of isolated literary and philosophical investigation, this wide-ranging study represents a breakthrough in our understanding of the relations between the phenomenon of modernism and the settled presuppositions of American imaginative life. Donadio points out the correspondences between the Nietzschean conception of the superman and more immediately familiar assumptions regarding American identity. In addition, he provides a compelling account of that moment in cultural history at the turn of the century which produced a radical new view of the relationship of art to life. Donadio shows that James and Nietzsche shared an intense belief in the power of art as the only activity capable of raising experience from insignificance. For both of them, it was an activity requiring an unrelenting imposition of the will on the facts of experience, and they were accordingly joined in their resistance to the two dominant tendencies of the literature of their time... naturalism and 'art for art's sake.' Perhaps most significantly, they shared an abiding sense of kinship with Emerson, whom Nietzsche named as 'the author as yet the richest in ideas in this century.' -- Publisher description.

Author : Ken Gemes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199534640
Total Pages : 809 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Nietzsche written by Ken Gemes and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 809 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An international team of scholars offer a broad engagement with the thought of Friedrich Nietzsche. They discuss the main topics of his philosophy, under the headings of values, epistemology and metaphysics, and will to power. Other sections are devoted to his life, his relations to other philosophers, and his individual works.

Author : Roy Brand
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030547728
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Art and the Form of Life written by Roy Brand and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-03-31 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art and the Form of Life takes a classic theme—philosophy as the art of living—and gives it a contemporary twist. The book examines a series of watershed moments in artistic practice alongside philosophers’ most enduring questions about the way we live. Coupling Tino Sehgal with Wittgenstein, cave art with Foucault, Stanley Kubrick with Nietzsche, and the Bauhaus with Walter Benjamin, the book animates the idea that life is literally ours to make. It reflects on universal themes that connect the long histories of art and philosophy, and it does so using a contemporary approach. Drawing on great philosophical works, it argues that life practiced as an art form affords an experience of meaning, in the sense that it is engaging, creative, and participatory. It thus effects a fundamental renewal of experience.