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At the core of Nietzsche's famous critique of 'morality' lies the sweeping claim that morality is the primary source of a stance of 'life-denial,' and hence an obstacle to the possibility of an affirmative stance toward life. Moral values, Nietzsche argues, are inimical to the affirmation of life, since they typically denigrate certain ineliminable features of the world and human existence (suffering, loss, impermanence, the body, instinctual desire). Other values, allegedly, are life-affirming because they cultivate or augment a life-affirming tendency. Nietzsche's pervasive concern with undermining morality and fostering an affirmative attitude towards life are thus closely intertwined: he attacks morality because it underwrites a condemnation of life and seeks to supplant morality with an alternative, life-enhancing ethics of affirmation. This volume brings together a number of new essays by leading Nietzsche scholars to examine these centrally important and overlapping themes in Nietzsche's philosophical enterprise.

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Author:   Daniel Came (Senior Lecturer and Programme Leader in Philosophy, Senior Lecturer and Programme Leader in Philosophy, university of Lincoln)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.522kg
ISBN:  

9780198728894

ISBN 10:   0198728891
Pages:   232
Publication Date:   09 June 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Daniel Came: Introduction 1: Ken Gemes: Nietzsche, Nihilism, and the Paradox of Affirmation 2: Daniel Came: Nietzsche as a Christian Thinker 3: Bernard Reginster: Ressentiment , Power, and Value 4: Maudemarie Clark: On the 'Meaning' of the Ascetic Ideal: A Normative Interpretation of GM III 5: Patrick Hassan: Organic Unity and the Heroic: Nietzsche's Aestheticization of Suffering 6: Andrew Huddleston: Affirmation, Admirable Overvaluation, and the Eternal Recurrence 7: Christopher Janaway: Who -- or What -- Says Yes to Life? 8: Tom Stern: Against Nietzsche's Theory of Affirmation 9: Edward Kanterian: Life's Affirmation and Denial

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Daniel Came is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Lincoln. His main areas of research are the philosophy of religion and post-Kantian European philosophy, especially Schopenhauer and Nietzsche. He has also written on the ethics/aesthetics distinction and the philosophy of immortality.

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