Nietzsche as Affirmative Thinker

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Nietzsche and the Method of Philosophy

   1. Nietzsche on Philosophy, Interpretation and Truth

      • Richard Schacht

      Pages 1-19

   2. Nietzsche, Hume, and the Genealogical Method

      • David Couzens Hoy

      Pages 20-38

   3. Nietzsche and the Project of Bringing Philosophy to an End

      • Bernd Magnus

      Pages 39-57

   4. Nietzsche and Contemporary Hermeneutics

      • Gianni Vattimo

      Pages 58-68

3. Varieties of Nietzsche’s Affirmation

   1. A More Severe Morality: Nietzsche’s Affirmative Ethics

      • Robert C. Solomon

      Pages 69-89

   2. Will to Knowledge, Will to Ignorance and Will to Power in Beyond Good and Evil

      • Alexander Nehamas

      Pages 90-108

   3. The Socratic Nietzsche

      • Ran Sigad

      Pages 109-118

   4. Nietzsche’s Concept of Education

      • Eliyahu Rosenow

      Pages 119-131

   5. Nietzsche’s Style of Affirmation: The Metaphors of Genealogy

      • Eric Blondel

      Pages 132-146

   6. Nietzsche: Psychology vs. Philosophy, and Freedom

      • Shlomo Pines

      Pages 147-159

   7. Nietzsche’s Enticing Psychology of Power

      • Jacob Golomb

      Pages 160-182

4. Nietzschean Affinities and Confrontations

   1. Nietzsche and Spinoza: amor fati and amor dei

      • Yirmiyahu Yovel

      Pages 183-203

   2. Nietzsche und Heine. Kritik des christlichen Gottesbegriffs

      • Eugen Biser

      Pages 204-218

   3. Nietzsche — Wagner im Sommer 1878

      • Mazzino Montinari

      Pages 219-228

5. Back Matter

   Pages 229-233

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The full century that has elapsed since Nietzsche was at the height of his work did not obliterate his impact. In many ways he is still a contemporary philosopher, even in that sense of 'contemporary' which points to the future. We may have outgrown his style (always, however, admirable and exciting to read), his sense of drama, his creative exaggeration, his sometimes flamboy­ ant posture of a rebel wavering between the heroic and the puerile. Yet Nietzsche's critique of transcendental values and, especially, his attack on the inherited conceptions of rationality remain pertinent and continue to pro­ voke anew cultural critique or dissent. Today Nietzsche is no longer discussed apologetically, nor is his radicalism shunned or suppressed. That his work remains the object of extremely diverse readings is befitting a philosopher who replaced the concept of truth with that of interpretation. It is, indeed, around the concept of interpretation that much of the rem:wed interest in Nietzsche seems to center today. Special emphasis is being laid on his manner of doing philosophy, and his views on interpretation and the genealogical method are often re-read in the context of contemporary hermeneutics and "deconstructionist" positions.

• Friedrich Nietzsche
• ethics
• freedom
• interpret
• knowledge
• philosophy
• psychology
• truth

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