Nietzsche and the Becoming of Life.

Throughout his writing career Nietzsche advocated the affirmation of earthly life as a way to counteract nihilism and asceticism. This volume takes stock of the complexities and wide-ranging perspectives that Nietzsche brings to bear on the problem of life's becoming on Earth by engaging variou...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Lemm, Vanessa
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Bronx : Fordham University Press, 2014.
Subjects:	Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, > 1844-1900. Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, > 1844-1900 PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern.
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Table of Contents:

Nietzsche and the Becoming of Life
Contents
Abbreviations
Acknowledgments
Nietzsche and the Becoming of Life
Introduction
Contesting Nietzscheâ€?s Naturalism
The Optics of Science, Art, and Life
Nietzsche, Nature, and the Affirmation of Life
Evolution, Teleology, and the Laws of Nature
Is Evolution Blind?
Nietzsche and the Nineteenth- Century Debate on Teleology
Nietzscheâ€?s Concept of â€œNecessityâ€? and Its Relation to â€œLaws of Natureâ€?
Justice and the Law of Life
Life and Justice in Nietzscheâ€?s Conception of History Life, Injustice, and Recurrence
Heeding the Law of Life
The Becoming of a New Body and Sensibility
Toward the Body of the Overman
Nietzscheâ€?s Synaesthetic Epistemology and the Restitution of the Holistic Human
Nietzscheâ€?s Naturalist Morality of Breeding
An â€œOther Way of Beingâ€?
Purification and the Freedom of Death
Nietzsche and the Transformation of Death
Becoming and Purification
The Becoming of the Soul: Nomadism and Self-Experiment
Â€œFalling in Love with Becomingâ€? â€œWe Are Experimentsâ€?
States and Nomads
Notes
Contributors
Index
Perspectives in Continental Philosophy

Nietzsche and the Becoming of Life.

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