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Nietzsche's system

Author: John Richardson
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.
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In recent years post-modernist critics have embraced Nietzsche as a philosopher who broke fundamentally free from the traditions of Western philosophy, even to the point of rejecting the goal of truth. In this original study that is sure to provoke stimulating discussion, John Richardson challenges these interpretations with a "conservative" reading of Nietzsche which, instead, displays his deep continuities with  Read more...
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Named Person: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche; Friedrich Nietzsche
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: John Richardson
ISBN: 0195098463 9780195098464 0195155955 9780195155952
OCLC Number: 32203707
Description: xii, 316 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: 1. Being. 1.1. The metaphysics of will to power. 1.2. Wills to power as perspectives. 1.3. Will to power's basic forms: active versus reactive. 1.4. Persons and societies as synthetic wills. 1.5. The typology of persons --
2. Becoming. 2.1. The temporal aspects of the power ontology. 2.2. The temporality of the active and reactive. 2.3. Persons' complex time. 2.4. History as societies' time. 2.5. The basic temporal types of persons --
3. Value. 3.1. Nietzsche's advice: maximize power. 3.2. A broader self-interest. 3.3. Nietzsche's politics. 3.4. Nietzsche's ethics. 3.5. The force of Nietzsche's values --
4. Truth. 4.1. Against truth's possibility. 4.2. Against truth's value. 4.3. The genealogy of the will to truth. 4.4. The new philosophers. 4.5. Truth with perspectivism --
Appendix: A Nietzschean Vocabulary.
Responsibility: John Richardson.
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This volume argues that Nietzsche does in fact have a metaphysical system - but that this is to his credit. Rather than renouncing philosophy's traditional project, he still aspires to find and state  Read more...

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