Friedrich Nietzsche

"Asceticism and the Value of Truth in Nietzsche's The Genealogy of Morals"

by Julianne Buchsbaum

Published in Episteme: Journal of Undergraduate Philosophy, 4, 1993, p.17-27.

I argue in this paper that the will to truth is another form of the ascetic ideal, and that Nietzsche's critique of... more I argue in this paper that the will to truth is another form of the ascetic ideal, and that Nietzsche's critique of priestly Christian asceticism implies that if we can avoid baptizing our beliefs as "truths" with deadly solemnity and endure the destabilizing movement towards questioning in the absence of totalizing solutions, we can aspire to the Nietzschean ideal of an "artistic Socrates" in conjoining the awareness of the indeterminacy of the theoretical ground on which we stand with a willingness, nonetheless, to commit ourselves passionately to our beliefs.

Nietzsche's theory of truth

by Alessandra Tanesini

Nietzsche’s Pharaonic Thought: Hieroglyphic Transduction

by Nandita Biswas Mellamphy (UWO)

Forthcoming in Horst Hutter, ed., Becoming Loyal to the Earth: Ecology and Life-Affirmation in Nietzsche’s Vision -- Nietzsche’s Teaching as a Therapy for Political Culture (London: Continuum Books, 2012).

"The Loneliest Desert": Science and the Ascetic Ideal in Nietzsche's Genealogy

by Nicholas Smyth

Draft, all comments welcome!

This paper is my attempt to make sense of Nietzsche's claim, made in the final few sections of the Genealogy of... more This paper is my attempt to make sense of Nietzsche's claim, made in the final few sections of the Genealogy of Morals, that scientific practise and the Christian 'ascetic ideal' share the same foundation. This is a puzzling and counterintuitive claim, yet, I shall attempt to elucidate and defend Nietzsche on this score, arguing that the scientist's attempt to eliminate pretense-like mental states from inquiry is a paradigm case of ascetic activity. Nietzsche's fundamental insight is that science, qua ascetic practise, cannot stand as the required counter-ideal that might banish the ascetic ideal from human life.

We Have Been Waiting...

by Peter McDonald

Published in Rhizomes (2010)

An experimental essay on, and in, the first person plural and post-structuralist philosophy. An experimental essay on, and in, the first person plural and post-structuralist philosophy.

Machado de Assis educador: considerações a partir de Schopenhauer e Nietzsche

by Vitor Cei

Lampejo – revista eletrônica de filosofia

Arthur Schopenhauer, in Über die Universitätsphilosophie (1851), Friedrich Nietzsche, in Über die Zukunft unserer... more Arthur Schopenhauer, in Über die Universitätsphilosophie (1851), Friedrich Nietzsche, in Über die Zukunft unserer Bildungsanstalten (1872) and Machado de Assis, in Teoria
do Medalhão (1882), criticizes the education system and the cultural structures of the nineteenth-century. Attacking the university philosophy of their time they show how the ideas were transformed into material signs of distinction. This question is analyzed from a comparative reading of the three authors. The main objective is to identify trends that still lead to a weakening of the educational system. The reading of Machado’s books can indicate the possibilities opened to the philosophical thinking by the literature.

Wilderness, Wasteland and Homeland: Comments on Drenthen

by Nathan Kowalsky

published in 'Ethical Perspectives,' 2007

Judging a place as wasteland or homeland is not a matter of objective fact, but a matter of perspective: presupposed... more Judging a place as wasteland or homeland is not a matter of objective fact, but a matter of perspective: presupposed values, knowledge through acquaintance, and comportment. Therefore, contra Martin Drenthen, the value of wilderness is a judgement call, not a conceptual necessity. I show this by first distinguishing wilderness from “wildness,” then culture from civilization, and finally, by situating Nietzsche’s teachings of the will to power in the context of a devalued world-view. Nevertheless, I agree with Drenthen that some understandings of wilderness are more appropriate than others. When wild nature is understood to be “good” in an axiologically transcendent sense, morality and humanness per se are not undermined, and the transcendence of wildness is still sufficiently immanent to avoid the drive to devalue it. Even thought such conceptualisation can be attained by civilized urbanites, it seems to be optimally actualised in life by non-civilised cultures. This leads to implications that are not easy for us to accept, but deserve our serious consideration nonetheless.

Nietzschean Philosophy: The Possibility for Positive Gender Relationships

by Nicholas Locke

Nietzsche a Wall Street

by daniele balicco

published in "www.leparoleelecose.it"

Nietzsche è stato, insieme a pochi altri pensatori classici, il punto di riferimento filosofico più importante per la... more Nietzsche è stato, insieme a pochi altri pensatori classici, il punto di riferimento filosofico più importante per la cultura teorica del secondo Novecento occidentale. Ma se è vero che i nomi dei filosofi sono poco più che metonimie, dove momentaneamente si cristallizzano e transitano flussi collettivi di pensiero , molto probabilmente non lo è stato per caso. La tradizione interpretativa francese che lo ha progressivamente trasformato in un polo magnetico generatore di vita teorica, di modelli esistenziali, di pratiche estetiche e di radicalismo politico, ha segnato a fondo gli ultimi tre decenni del Novecento e l’atmosfera teorica che ancora respiriamo. Il corpus di queste letture ha costruito un’egemonia. In questo scritto provo a ricostruirne le mosse teoriche fondamentali e la sua successiva metamorfosi statunitense.

Notas sobre a actualidade do caso Wagner

by João Pedro Cachopo

Published in "Obras de Richard Wagner", TNSC, 2008 [in Portuguese]

EL CUERPO DES-ENCARNADO. APUNTES PARA UNA TEORÍA DE LA INFANCIA COMO RESISTENCIA

by Mauricio Amar

Published in "ACTUEL MARX INTERVENCIONES N° 9 PRIMER SEMESTRE 2010", pp. 59-75.

El hombre contemporáneo es un ser des-encarnado. En la medida en que el capitalismo se ha extendido de manera extensa... more El hombre contemporáneo es un ser des-encarnado. En la medida en que el capitalismo se ha extendido de manera extensa e intensa por el planeta, el habla ha sido expropiada por el poder, alejando su relación con la experiencia del cuerpo. Este último se transforma así en espacio de consumo, donde el deseo es transformado en valor de cambio. Se bosqueja en este artículo la posibilidad de re-encuentro del hombre con la experiencia, no transformándola en parte del museo de la infancia, ni recurriendo a la tradición, sino trayendo de vuelta una infancia que, en tanto lugar privilegiado del uso del mundo, contiene siempre una posibilidad de re-encarnamiento del cuerpo.

A Penny for the Old Guy: Exploring The Mythological Framework of Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby

by Beau Wuthrich

Fitzgerald’s Jazz Age was turbulent. The sobering “Death of God” in Nietzsche’s philosophical wake, the Great War, a... more Fitzgerald’s Jazz Age was turbulent. The sobering “Death of God” in Nietzsche’s philosophical wake, the Great War, a suddenly roaring economy and the infamous prohibition all contributed to The Great Gatsby, a novel which centers on the American subject’s autopoiesis amidst drifting continents of categorical reality. The beginning of the Modernist age was fraught with a fragmented, spiritual ennui, and many thinkers, instead of aspiring to Christian-influenced transcendental philosophy, plunged the dark depths of the subconscious frontier. Notably, Carl Jung’s Psychology of the Subconscious, which bravely spelunked the mythical heart of human thought and culture, was published in English in 1916. The publication of Fitzgerald’s novel introduced a new species of man, one with a “heightened sensitivity” (Fitzgerald, 49) to complexified life. As Robert Berman intuits, “Fitzgerald relies on a montage for the same reasons as modernist painters. There is no innate principle of composition” (The Great Gatsby and Modern Times, 90). Although there existed no innate principle, all paintings require raw material. Fitzgerald’s Modernist writing describes and arranges a fragmented reality, but in those fragments is retained a deep mythical significance.

Stirner, Deleuze, Esposito: la maschera del diritto e il vitalismo anarchico

by Giacomo Pezzano

Published in “Lessico di Etica pubblica”, I, 2, 2010, pp. 87-96

A short summary of the evolution of the theoretical foundations of anarchism A short summary of the evolution of the theoretical foundations of anarchism

Madame Bovary, tra letteratura e filosofia. Jules de Gaultier ed il Bovarismo

by Alice Gonzi

Zarathustra a Parigi nel primo Novecento: Jules de Gaultier e Nietzsche

by Alice Gonzi

Il mito di Sisifo. Il dialogo tra Camus, ŠSestov, Fondane e Rachel Bespaloff

by Alice Gonzi

Bad conscience is a sickness... rather like pregnancy. (GM II 19). What did Nietzsche mean by this Critically evaluate his argument on this point.

by Daniel. J. Woolley

This is an essay that I wrote during my final year as an undergraduate.

I shall argue that Nietzsche believed that bad conscience is a sickness like pregnancy because it is only through bad... more I shall argue that Nietzsche believed that bad conscience is a sickness like pregnancy because it is only through bad conscience that anything of great magnitude can be born. This is in reference to great pieces of art and music to the sovereign individual. I shall do this by explicating Nietzsche’s account of how man becomes ‘sick’ with bad conscience. Once this is established I will state the reasons why bad conscience plays a vital role in the production of great art and music. Also, expounding how the sovereign individual could not come into existence without a society victimised by bad conscience.

René Girard e la mancata ricezione di Nietzsche come pensatore morale

by Giulia Moiraghi

published in "Il Cannocchiale, Rivista di Studi Filosofici", I, Jan-Apr 2011

Starting from René Girard’s analysis of deconstructionist Nietzsche reception, this paper argues that Nietzsche’s... more Starting from René Girard’s analysis of deconstructionist Nietzsche reception, this paper argues that Nietzsche’s foremost concern was on moral subject and that, nonetheless, many contemporary philosophers, who recognize themselves in the so-called post-nietzschean tradition, fail to face directly Nietzsche’s contribution to future moral thinking. The second part, after having disagreed from the meaning that Girard ascribes to this lack and having outlined a different scenario at the base of this phenomenon, claims an urgent confrontation with the paradoxical relation between moral and postmodernism to be one of the most difficult and important challenges for today’s contemporary philosophy.

Sarah Kofman's Art of Affirmation, or the Non-illusory Life of an Illusion”

by Pleshette DeArmitt

Frederick, B. J. & Fradella, H. F. (In press). Leopold and Loeb. SAGE Social History of Crime and Punishment in America (pp.___-___). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage

by Brian Jay Frederick

Co-authored with Dr Henry F. Fradella, J.D.

Encyclopedia entry for the "SAGE Social History of Crime and Punishment in America." Article discusses... more Encyclopedia entry for the "SAGE Social History of Crime and Punishment in America." Article discusses Leopold & Loeb, convicted of the murder of a young boy in a wealthy neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois.