Nietzsche - Philosophie de la légèreté

Olivier Ponton

Published by De Gruyter 2007

Nietzsche - Philosophie de la légèreté

Olivier Ponton

Volume 53 in the series Monographien und Texte zur Nietzsche-Forschung

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110204322

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Nietzsche’s philosophy is a philosophy of lightness, a lightness which doesn’t consist in breaking with gravity but in controlling it: being light is being able to take charge of life, ie bearing and loving it, wanting it.
This book is first devoted to Greek lightness for Nietzsche finds in Ancient Greece the pattern for an alleviation which enables to unload one’s drives without denying oneself. The study of Greek culture is thus the starting point of a close analysis of the “human, all-too-human” things, ie an inquiry whose orientation is definitely antimetaphysical, ie antiplatonic, antischopenhauerian and antiwagnerian:

Nietzsche first shows that alleviation in religion has a “double face”: on the one hand, religion makes man’s heart heavy with sinfulness; on the other hand it lightens it with the fiction of a merciful God. True alleviation thus consists in freeing oneself from religious lightening, and proclaiming the radical innocence of everything.
Nietzsche also criticizes alleviation in art, ie a romantic alleviation. He shows that – like alleviation in religion – it requires a previous heaviness. Therefore he praises a classical art and an aesthetic of lightness.
Nietzsche eventually focuses on a philosophical alleviation of life, defined as a freeing of spirit. Such a definition leads him to develop the “doctrine of the closest things”, which consist of the organization of a dietary alleviation of life.

Dans les années 1875-1879, Nietzsche se tourne vers la philosophie de la " libre pensée ", élaborant alors une éthique originale. Notre objectif ici est double: analyser la formation de cette nouvelle éthique et montrer que celle-ci peut être définie comme une éthique de l'affirmation de soi et de la légèreté de la vie - une légèreté qui ne consiste pas en une rupture avec la gravité mais plutôt en un contrôle et un jeu avec celle-ci. La naissance de cette philosophie de la légèreté va de paire avec la profonde transformation des idées de Nietzsche sur la religion, l'art et la connaissance, ainsi qu'avec l'évolution de son interprétation de Schopenhauer et du pessimisme grec.

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Olivier Ponton, La Grand-Croix, France.

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Frontmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	I
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I. La légèreté grecque Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	5
II. La légèreté des choses humaines Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	46
III. L’innocence du devenir Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	82
IV. L’embellissement de la vie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
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Language: French
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Academics, Institutes, Libraries
Pages
- Front matter: 11
- Main content: 343
Keywords: Nietzsche; Friedrich; Human; All-Too-Human; Leightness; Free Spirit; Ethic

eBook

Published: August 27, 2008
ISBN: 9783110204322

Hardcover

Published: December 14, 2007
ISBN: 9783110193466