Nietzsche on Art and Life

Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-0-19-954596-4
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 266 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 243 mm, Gewicht: 554 g

Nietzsche was not interested in the nature of art as such, or in providing an aesthetic theory of a traditional sort. For he regarded the significance of art to lie not in l'art pour l'art, but in the role that it might play in enabling us positively to 'revalue' the world and human experience. This volume brings together a number of distinguished figures in contemporary Anglo-American Nietzsche scholarship to examine his views on art and the aesthetic in the context of this wider philosophical project. All of the major themes of Nietzsche's aesthetics are discussed: art and the affirmation of life, the relationship between art and truth, music, tragedy, the nature of aesthetic experience, the role of art in Nietzsche's positive ethics, his critique of romanticism, and his ambivalent attitude towards Richard Wagner.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Came, Daniel

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Kulturphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 19. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Deutsche Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction

- 1: Bernard Reginster: Art and Affirmation

- 2: Christopher Janaway: Beauty is False, Truth Ugly: Nietzsche on Art and Life

- 3: Christopher C. Raymond: Nietzsche on Tragedy and Morality

- 4: Ken Gemes and Chris Sykes: Nietzsche's Illusion

- 5: Stephen Mulhall: Orchestral Metaphysics: The Birth of Tragedy between Drama, Opera and Philosophy

- 6: Daniel Came: Nietzsche on Ethics and Aesthetics

- 7: Adrian Del Caro: Zarathustra vs. Faust, or Anti-Romantic Rivalry among Superhumans

- 8: A. E. Denham: Attuned, Transcendent, and Transfigured: Nietzsche's Appropriation of Schopenhauer's Aesthetic Psychology

- 9: Sabina Lovibond: Nietzsche on Distance, Beauty and Truth

- 10: Aaron Ridley: Nietzsche and Music

- 11: Roger Scruton: Nietzsche on Wagner

Über Autor(innen)

Daniel Came is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Hull. He received his B.A. and M.Phil. degrees in Philosophy from the University of Cambridge and his D.Phil. in Philosophy from the University of Oxford. He has held a Junior Research Fellowship in Philosophy at Worcester College, Oxford and a College Lectureship in Philosophy at St Hugh's College, Oxford. His main research interests are in ethics and the history of ethics (especially within the post-Kantian German tradition).