Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- A Note on References
- Introduction
- Nietzsche on the Illusions of Everyday Experience
- Masters without Substance
- Rethinking the Subject: Or, How One Becomes-Other Than What One Is
- The Youngest Virtue
- Morality as Psychology, Psychology as Morality: Nietzsche, Eros, and Clumsy Lovers
- On the Rejection of Morality: Bernard Williams's Debt to Nietzsche
- Nietzsche's Virtues: A Personal Inquiry
- Nietzschean Normativity
- Nietzsche's Perfectionism: A Reading of Schopenhauer as Educator
- Bibliography
Nietzsche's Virtues: A Personal Inquiry
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 May 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- A Note on References
- Introduction
- Nietzsche on the Illusions of Everyday Experience
- Masters without Substance
- Rethinking the Subject: Or, How One Becomes-Other Than What One Is
- The Youngest Virtue
- Morality as Psychology, Psychology as Morality: Nietzsche, Eros, and Clumsy Lovers
- On the Rejection of Morality: Bernard Williams's Debt to Nietzsche
- Nietzsche's Virtues: A Personal Inquiry
- Nietzschean Normativity
- Nietzsche's Perfectionism: A Reading of Schopenhauer as Educator
- Bibliography
Summary
Give style to your character, a great and rare art.
Nietzsche, The Gay ScienceWhat are we to make of Nietzsche? There has been an explosion of scholarship over the past twenty years, much of it revealing and insightful, a good deal of it controversial if not polemical. The controversy and polemics are for the most part straight from Nietzsche, of course, and the scholarly disputes over what he “really” meant are rather innocuous and often academic compared with what Nietzsche meant (or might have meant) with his conscientiously inflammatory rhetoric and hyperbole. We have been treated to extended debates about Nietzsche's politics, his attacks on Christianity and morality, his famed notion of the Übermensch, and his less lampooned (but more edifying) doctrine of the “eternal recurrence.” We have recently heard Nietzsche reinterpreted as an analytic philosopher, as a deconstructionist, as a feminist, even as a closest Christian and a liberal. Stephen Aschheim suggests in his recent book that Nietzsche provides us with something like a Rorschach test, inviting readers with amazingly different commitments and ideologies to “make their own Nietzsche” (as a TLS review bluntly put it).
But there is another approach to Nietzsche, quite different from interpreting him in terms of his various “theses” and positions, unpacking his “system” or repeating unhelpfully that he displayed no such coherence and consistency – something more than finding out “who” Nietzsche is as opposed to what we have made out of him.
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- Nietzsche's PostmoralismEssays on Nietzsche's Prelude to Philosophy's Future, pp. 123 - 148Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2000
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