Overview

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.

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Author:   Daniel Came (University of Hull)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.30cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 24.30cm
Weight:   0.554kg
ISBN:  

9780199545964

ISBN 10:   0199545960
Pages:   266
Publication Date:   24 April 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction 1: Bernard Reginster: Art and Affirmation 2: Christopher Janaway: Beauty is False, Truth Ugly: Nietzsche on Art and Life 3: Christopher C. Raymond: Nietzsche on Tragedy and Morality 4: Ken Gemes and Chris Sykes: Nietzsche's Illusion 5: Stephen Mulhall: Orchestral Metaphysics: The Birth of Tragedy between Drama, Opera and Philosophy 6: Daniel Came: Nietzsche on Ethics and Aesthetics 7: Adrian Del Caro: Zarathustra vs. Faust, or Anti-Romantic Rivalry among Superhumans 8: A. E. Denham: Attuned, Transcendent, and Transfigured: Nietzsche's Appropriation of Schopenhauer's Aesthetic Psychology 9: Sabina Lovibond: Nietzsche on Distance, Beauty and Truth 10: Aaron Ridley: Nietzsche and Music 11: Roger Scruton: Nietzsche on Wagner

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This is a fine collection of subtle and coherent reflections on a major theme of Nietzschean obscurantism. Daniel Binney, Times Higher Education To conclude, this volume is an excellent collection of substantive essays by seasoned scholars on the topic of art and life in Nietzsche, and it marks an important step in reading Nietzsche's project through his practical-existential orientation Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews Online

To conclude, this volume is an excellent collection of substantive essays by seasoned scholars on the topic of art and life in Nietzsche, and it marks an important step in reading Nietzsche's project through his practical-existential orientation * Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews Online * This is a fine collection of subtle and coherent reflections on a major theme of Nietzschean obscurantism. * Daniel Binney, Times Higher Education *

This is a fine collection of subtle and coherent reflections on a major theme of Nietzschean obscurantism. Daniel Binney, Times Higher Education

Author Information

Daniel Came is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Hull. He received his B.A. and M.Phil. degrees in Philosophy from the University of Cambridge and his D.Phil. in Philosophy from the University of Oxford. He has held a Junior Research Fellowship in Philosophy at Worcester College, Oxford and a College Lectureship in Philosophy at St Hugh's College, Oxford. His main research interests are in ethics and the history of ethics (especially within the post-Kantian German tradition).

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