Nietzsche's Affirmative Morality: A Revaluation Based in the Dionysian World-View

Peter Durno Murray

Published by De Gruyter 1999

Nietzsche's Affirmative Morality

A Revaluation Based in the Dionysian World-View

Peter Durno Murray

Volume 42 in the series Monographien und Texte zur Nietzsche-Forschung

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110800517

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This book argues that Nietzsche bases his affirmative morality on the model of individual responsiveness to otherness which he takes from the mythology of Dionysus. The subject is not free to choose to avoid such responding to the demands of the other. Nietzsche finds that the basic mode of responding is pleasure. This feeling, as a basis for morality, underlies the morality which is true to the earth and the major concepts of “will to power”, “eternal return”, and “amor fati”. The priority of otherness makes all thought ethical and not only aesthetic. The basis of all meanings combines the fundamental impulse of responding outwards with an immediate complement in the individual interpretation-world. This is specifically ethical because the recognition of our own historical specificity arises as a result of the refusal of others to become mere differences within our notion of the Same, and through their demand that we “become who we are” in the recognition of their separate existence.

Reviews

"Peter D. Murray's book is the best treatment of Nietzschean affirmation since Deleuze."
Tyler Roberts in: New Nietzsche Studies 1-2/2002

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Foreword Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	VII
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	XI
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	XIII
Abbreviations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	XV
Part One. The Dionysian World-View
I. Nietzsche's Dionysus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
II. Contradiction, Duplicity and Opposition Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	58
III: The Language of Redemption Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	98
Part Two. Affirmative Morality
IV: The Basis in Pleasure Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
V. A Sense of the Earth Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
VI: Eternal Return Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	210
VII: Affirmation: The Love of Fate Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251
Conclusion: A Beautiful in Vain? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	288
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	293
Name Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	313
Subject Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	316

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Edition: Reprint 2015
Pages
- Front matter: 16
- Main content: 320
Keywords: Nietzsche, Friedrich; Lust

eBook

Published: June 3, 2015
ISBN: 9783110800517

Hardcover

Published: August 4, 1999
ISBN: 9783110166019