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Nietzsche and the Becoming of Life
Vanessa Lemm (Ed.)
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Description for Nietzsche and the Becoming of Life
Paperback. Takes stock of the complexities and perspectives that Nietzsche brings to bear on the problem of life's becoming on earth by engaging various interpretative paradigms reaching from existentialist to Darwinist readings of Nietzsche and measuring their continued importance against the standards of the latest advances of scholarship on Nietzsche. Editor(s): Lemm, Vanessa. Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy (FUP). Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPM; HPQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 154 x 35. Weight in Grams: 582.
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 various interpretative paradigms reaching from existentialist to Darwinist readings of Nietzsche. In an age in which the biological sciences claim to have unlocked the deepest secrets and codes of life, the essays in this volume propose a more skeptical view. Life is both what is closest and what is furthest from ... Read more
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 various interpretative paradigms reaching from existentialist to Darwinist readings of Nietzsche. In an age in which the biological sciences claim to have unlocked the deepest secrets and codes of life, the essays in this volume propose a more skeptical view. Life is both what is closest and what is furthest from ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Fordham University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
424
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780823262878
SKU
V9780823262878
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About Vanessa Lemm (Ed.)
Vanessa Lemm is Professor of Philosophy at the School of Humanities and Languages at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. She is the author of Nietzsche's Animal Philosophy: Culture, Politics, and the Animality of the Human Being (New York: Fordham University Press, 2009), Nietzsche y el pensamiento politico contemporaneo (Santiago: Fondo de cultura economica, 2013) and several articles ... Read more
Reviews for Nietzsche and the Becoming of Life
The roster of contributors is impressive, comprising top-notch Nietzsche scholars from North and South America, as well as Europe. The seventeen papers collected here represent a diverse but coherent and complementary range of interpretive approaches, all of which focus on different aspects of Nietzsche's conception of life and related topics. A collection like this is a real boon to Nietzsche ... Read more