Introducing Nietzsche
A Graphic Guide
Published on 5. June 2014
176 pages
978-1-84831-762-8 (ISBN)
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Why must we believe that God is dead? Can we accept that traditional morality is just a 'useful mistake'? Did the principle of 'the will to power' lead to the Holocaust? What are the limitations of scientific knowledge? Is human evolution complete or only beginning? It is difficult to overestimate the importance of Friedrich Nietzsche for our present epoch. His extraordinary insights into human psychology, morality, religion and power seem quite clairvoyant today: existentialism, psychoanalysis, semiotics and postmodernism are plainly anticipated in his writings - which are famously enigmatic and often contradictory."Introducing Nietzsche" is the perfect guide to this exhilarating and oft-misunderstood philosopher.
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Laurence Gane read Philosophy at UCL and King's College, London. He now lives in Snowdonia and runs a recording studio. Piero is an artist and graphic designer whose work has twice been included in the Royal College of Art's 'The Best of British Illustration'.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Contents
- Copyright
- Early Years
- Schopenhauer: the Denial of Life
- The Scholar as Anti-Scholar
- The Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit of Music
- Apollo and Dionysus
- Music, the Origin of Myth
- Music and Tragedy
- The Triumph of Apolline Philosophy
- The Case of Richard Wagner
- What is History?
- What is Education?
- What is Culture?
- A Critique of Metaphysics
- Kant's Idealism
- Kant's Spectacles
- Kantian Morality: You Know it Makes Sense
- Nietzsche's Style
- Lightness of Touch
- The Aphorism
- On Readers
- The Price of Knowledge
- The Eternal Return
- Nietzsche and Women
- The Micro-histories of Daily Life
- Is Virtue a Virtue?
- The Power of the Herd
- The Death of God
- Life Without God?
- A Critique of Science
- The Methods of Science
- From Description to Image
- The Psychoanalysis of Knowledge
- Anti-Darwinian Evolution
- The Evolution of Quality
- Politics: Morality and the State
- The Paradox of Democracy
- Invitation to a Political Party
- Politics: the Prostitution of the Intellect
- Politics: the Death of Truth
- Thus Spake Zarathustra
- The Oracle Speaks
- On Nihilism
- On Virtuous Hypocrisy
- On Fear
- What is "The Superman"?
- Mastery of the Self
- A Human or Post-Human Future?
- The Will to Power
- Self-Obedience
- The Free Spirit
- The Circle of Time
- A Pessimistic Consolation
- Wagner's Shadow
- The Germans and the Jews
- Anti-Germany
- Beyond Good and Evil (1885-6)
- The Dishonesty of Philosophy
- Of Religion
- Of Faith
- Making the Most of Suffering
- On the Natural History of Morals
- The Ruler as Servant
- Evil
- On Madness
- On Love
- On Truth
- On Morality
- The Master and the Slave
- Noble Ethics
- Slave Ethics
- The Man Apart
- The Genealogy of Morals
- The Ethics of pity
- The Slave Revolt in Ethics
- The Sins of the Fathers
- Slave Ethics: the Inversion of Values
- The Idea of evil
- The Rancour of the Weak
- Two Views of the Enemy
- The Origins of conscience
- The Disease of Consciousness
- The Origin of "Good"
- The Ascetic Ideal
- The Anti-Christ
- Recognition at Last?
- Nietzsche's Breakdown
- Nietzsche and the Nazis
- The Case for the Defence
- Nietzsche and Psychoanalysis
- Wittgenstein: Linguistic Philosophy
- Heidegger and Nietzsche
- Jean-Paul Sartre: Existentialism
- Le Néant
- Derrida: Deconstruction
- Foucault: Knowledge and Power
- Foucault's Micro-Histories
- Nietzsche and Postmodernism
- (Postmodern) Theory Wars
- The Simulacrum
- Postmodern Hyper-reality
- A Postmodern Fable
- Further Reading
- Acknowledgements
- About the Author
- Index
