Download or read book Concepts of Power in Kierkegaard and Nietzsche written by J. Keith Hyde and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-17 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The name Friedrich Nietzsche has become synonymous with studies in political power. The application of his theory that the vast array of human activities comprises manifestations of the will to power continues to influence fields as diverse as international relations, political studies, literary theory, the social sciences, and theology. To date, the introduction of Søren Kierkegaard into this discussion has been gradual at best. Long derided as the quintessential individualist, the social dimension of his fertile thought has been neglected until recent decades. This book situates Kierkegaard in direct dialogue with Nietzsche on the topic of power and authority. Significant contextual similarities warrant such a comparison: both severely criticized state Lutheranism, championed the self and its imaginative ways of knowing against the philosophical blitzkrieg of Hegelianism, and endured the turbulent emergence of the nation-state. However, the primary justification remains the depth-defying prescience with which Kierkegaard not only fully anticipates but rigorously critiques Nietzsche's power position thirty years in advance.
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Download or read book The Will to Power written by Friedrich Nietzsche and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-13 with total page 916 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "How does one become stronger? By deciding slowly; and by holding firmly to the decision once it is made. Everything else follows of itself." ― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power This carefully crafted collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. "The Will to Power (Vol.1&2)" describes what Nietzsche may have believed to be the main driving force in humans – achievement, ambition, and the striving to reach the highest possible position in life. These are all manifestations of the will to power; however, the concept was never systematically defined in Nietzsche's work, leaving its interpretation open to debate. "Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is" is the last book written by Nietzsche before his final years of insanity that lasted until his death in 1900. According to Walter Kaufmann, Nietzsche's most prominent English translators, the book offers "Nietzsche's own interpretation of his development, his works, and his significance." "Selected Letters" includes various personal letters by Nietzsche to his family and friends. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) was a German philosopher, poet, and Latin and Greek scholar whose work has exerted a profound influence on Western philosophy and modern intellectual history. Because of Nietzsche's evocative style and provocative ideas, his philosophy generates passionate reactions. His works remain controversial, due to varying interpretations and misinterpretations of his work. In the Western philosophy tradition, Nietzsche's writings have been described as the unique case of free revolutionary thought, that is, revolutionary in its structure and problems, although not tied to any revolutionary project.
Download or read book Philosophy Collection written by Arthur Russell and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-04-20 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ✔ Are you interested in philosophy? ✔ Do the greatest thinkers from the past influence the way you think and act? Philosophers have been shaping the world for centuries. Their ideas have shaped the way we act as individuals and groups for as long as we can remember, and their deep thought processes have been marveled at and replicated by millions across the world. Now some of the greatest of these have been presented in one fantastic book, Philosophy Collection: The Ideas and Biographies of Friedrich Nietzsche, Soren Kierkegaard, Immanuel Kant, Seneca and Schopenhauer, which examines ideas surrounding: ★ Metaphysics ★ Stoicism ★ Nihilism ★ Will to Power ★ Existentialism ★ And more... Men like Nietzsche, Seneca and Schopenhauer, to name but three, have fascinated us with the way they have presented ideas and theories on a wide range of topics and that remains true to this today. So if you wanted to know even more about these astonishing people and what lay behind their principles and notions, then Philosophy Collection is a book that you simply must read now! ✔ Get a copy and see what made these great minds think the way they did.
Download or read book The Will to Power written by Friedrich Nietzsche and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2019-08-14 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout his career, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche explored the concept of the will to power, interpreting it variously as a psychological, biological, and metaphysical principle. This posthumously produced volume, drawn from his unpublished notebooks, collects the nineteenth-century philosopher's thoughts on the force that drives humans toward achievement, dominance, and creative activity. Misunderstandings of Nietzsche's previous works compelled the author to attempt to express his doctrines in a more unequivocal form. These writings elucidate the principle that he held to be the essential factor of all existence — the drive and energy to develop independently according to one's nature, rather than being dominated by outside forces. A work that both illuminates and extends our understanding of Nietzsche's earlier books, this volume offers reflections on art, morality, Christianity, nihilism, and other topics that provide absorbing glimpses into the mind of one of philosophy's great thinkers.
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Download or read book The Will to Power Part II written by Friedrich Nietzsche and published by Livraria Press. This book was released on with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Der Wille zur Macht" (The Will to Power) is a posthumously published collection of Nietzsche's notes and unpublished writings, organized by his sister Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche. Although Nietzsche did compile the notes and drafts titled "The Will to Power", it was not published during his lifetime. Instead, it was posthumously edited and published by his sister, Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche, and Peter Gast in 1901. Due to the enormous size of the document, this was published in two different parts. The book is often considered controversial due to questions about its editing and compilation by his sister and the team of Academics who first published it. However, it contains important insights into Nietzsche's evolving thoughts on power, creativity, and the nature of reality. The concept of the will to power is central to Nietzsche's philosophy and is found in nearly every single one of his works, major and minor. The Will-to-Power (Wille-zur-Macht) is a kind of "Life force" similar to the Logos of Heraclitus mentioned in the New Testament, and the Leibnizian Via Viva used in the Physics of the day. This is the driving force behind all human action and the desire for self-overcoming, a re-formulation of Schopenhauer's Will-to-Live (Wille-zum-Leben). The term Will-to-Power, presented more fully in his notebooks from about 1885 and found informally in his childhood essays, embodies a multifaceted interpretation of power that includes the affirmation of eternal cycles of life and death and the assertion of individual autonomy in shaping one's interpretation of existence. This will is intertwined with the interpretation of life, where the ability to integrate even the most horrific experiences leads to "tragic greatness" and the acceptance, even embrace, of fate. The "will to power" becomes the means to autonomy, "liberating" the individual through the freedom gained from integrated life interpretations including "right" and "wrong". Nietzsche's idea has inspired various interpretations, ranging from Heidegger's metaphysical inquiry to Foucault's discourse theory, while contemporary perspectives tend to see it as less central to Nietzschean philosophy, emphasizing its critical function against fixed truths and its role in shaping interpretive processes rather than as a static state of power. This is a new 2024 translation from this original 1884 German manuscript (first manuscript published in 1901) and contains a new Afterword by the Translator, a timeline of Nietzsche's life and works, an index with descriptions of his core concepts and summaries of his complete body of works. This translation is designed to allow the armchair philosopher to engage deeply with Nietzsche's works without having to be a full-time Academic. The language is modern and clean, with simplified sentence structures and diction to make Nietzsche's complex language and arguments as accessible as possible. This Reader's Edition also contains extra material that amplifies the manuscript with autobiographical, historical and linguistic context. This provides the reader a holistic view of this very enigmatic philosopher as both an introduction and an exploration of Nietzsche's works; from his general understanding of his philosophic project to an exploration of the depths of his metaphysics and unique contributions. This edition contains: • An Afterword by the Translator on the history, impact and intellectual legacy of Nietzsche • Translation notes on the original German, Latin and Greek manuscript • An index of Philosophical concepts used by Nietzsche with a focus on Existentialism and Phenomenology • A chronological list of Nietzsche's entire body of works • A detailed timeline of Nietzsche's life and works
Download or read book Kierkegaard and Nietzsche on the Self written by Joan Marie Hoy and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Birth and Death of Meaning written by Ernest Becker and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uses the disciplines of psychology, anthropology, sociology and psychiatry to explain what makes people act the way they do.
Download or read book Nietzsche Power and Politics written by Herman Siemens and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2009-02-26 with total page 901 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nietzsche’s legacy for political thought is a highly contested area of research today. With papers representing a broad range of positions, this collection takes stock of the central controversies (Nietzsche as political / anti-political thinker? Nietzsche and / contra democracy? Arendt and / contra Nietzsche?), as well as new research on key concepts (power, the agon, aristocracy, friendship i.a.), on historical, contemporary and futural aspects of Nietzsche’s political thought. International contributors include well-known names (Conway, Ansell-Pearson, Hatab, Taureck, Patton, Connolly, Villa, van Tongeren) and young emerging scholars from various disciplines.
Download or read book Nietzsche German Idealism and Its Critics written by Katia Hay and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-10-16 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nietzsche is known as a severe critic of German Idealism, but what exactly is the relation between his thought and theirs? And how does Nietzsche's stance differ from the critique of idealism in Kierkegaard and Schopenhauer? The papers from leading international specialists in German Idealism, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard and Nietzsche address these questions. The aim of the volume is to introduce novel ways of addressing the complex relations between Nietzsche and his immediate philosophical predecessors: Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Hegel, Schelling, Fichte and Kant. The focus is on the profound interconnections and affinities between their ways of thinking. Each paper considers one particular aspect of Nietzsche's philosophy (such as his notion of "spirit", "law", "power", "will", his "physiology" or his critique of morality) in relation to the above-mentioned philosophers. This largely systematic approach reveals surprising affinities between Nietzsche and the German idealists, despite their patent differences and generates new perspectives from which to understand and reinterpret Nietzsche's thought. Contributors: Maria J. Branco; Danielle Cohen Levinas; Joao Constancio; Carlos J. Correia; Katia Hay; Lore Hühn; Jose Justo; Elisabetta Marques J.de Sousa; Frederick Neuhouser; Leonel R. dos Santos; Philipp Schwab; Herman Siemens.
Download or read book The Will to Power Part I written by Friedrich Nietzsche and published by Livraria Press. This book was released on with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Der Wille zur Macht" (The Will to Power) is a posthumously published collection of Nietzsche's notes and unpublished writings, organized by his sister Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche. Although Nietzsche did compile the notes and drafts titled "The Will to Power", it was not published during his lifetime. Instead, it was posthumously edited and published by his sister, Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche, and Peter Gast in 1901. Due to the enormous size of the document, this was published in two different parts; this is Part I. Nietzsche's sister introduces the document, explaining the origins and development of Nietzsche's thoughts leading up to "The Will to Power. She describes how Nietzsche's ideas evolved over time, influenced by his earlier works such as "Thus Spoke Zarathustra. She shares personal anecdotes and reflections on how Nietzsche's experiences, especially during times of war, shaped his philosophy. Nietzsche discusses the origins of nihilism, focusing on the moral interpretation of existence and the decline of Christianity. He critiques how modern science, politics, and history contribute to the nihilistic worldview. Nietzsche defines nihilism as the devaluation of the highest values, where traditional beliefs and goals lose their meaning. He examines how nihilism manifests as both a philosophical position and a psychological state. This is a new 2024 translation from this original 1884 German manuscript (first manuscript published in 1901) and contains a new Afterword by the Translator, a timeline of Nietzsche's life and works, an index with descriptions of his core concepts and summaries of his complete body of works. This extra material amplifies upon the text to give the reader a holistic view of this enigmatic philosopher. This translation is designed to allow the armchair philosopher to engage deeply with Nietzsche's works without having to be a full-time Academic. The language is modern and clean, with simplified sentence structures and diction to make Nietzsche's complex language and arguments as accessible as possible. This Reader's Edition also contains extra material that amplifies the manuscript with autobiographical, historical and linguistic context. This provides the reader a holistic view of this very enigmatic philosopher as both an introduction and an exploration of Nietzsche's works; from his general understanding of his philosophic project to an exploration of the depths of his metaphysics and unique contributions. This edition contains: • An Afterword by the Translator on the history, impact and intellectual legacy of Nietzsche • Translation notes on the original German, Latin and Greek manuscript • An index of Philosophical concepts used by Nietzsche with a focus on Existentialism and Phenomenology • A chronological list of Nietzsche's entire body of works • A detailed timeline of Nietzsche's life and works
Download or read book The Will To Power Book I and Ii written by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A philosophical work by the famous German philosopher, scholar, philologist, poet and cultural critic Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, 'The Will to Power, Book I and II' was first published in the year 1914 in London. The work in two parts focuses on the Nihilist philosophical movement and related views which effected it widely.
Download or read book The Will to Power Volumes I and II written by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche and published by Digireads.Com. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First released in 1901, about one year after Nietzsche's death, "The Will to Power" is a collection of Nietzsche's unedited and unpublished writings. Though the title and all of the ideas are of the radical philosopher's own invention, the order and selection of Nietzsche's notebooks are due to the organization of his sister. As a result of his poor health, Nietzsche used his remaining energy to write a different work, leaving "The Will to Power" in the earliest stages of writing. The topics he explores vary widely and include nihilism, religion, morality, the theory of knowledge, and art. Some ideas are reflected in the works Nietzsche managed to complete in his lifetime, while others show his progression toward those ideas in his earlier life. Overall, "The Will to Power" is an opportunity to read the intellectual journaling of one of the nineteenth century's most brilliant thinkers.
Download or read book The Passion of Infinity written by Daniel Greenspan and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2008-11-03 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Passion of Infinity generates a historical narrative surrounding the concept of the irrational as a threat which rational culture has made a series of attempts to understand and relieve. It begins with a reading of Sophocles' Oedipus as the paradigmatic figure of a reason that, having transgressed its mortal limit, becomes catastrophically reversed. It then moves through Aristotle's ethics, psychology and theory of tragedy, which redefine reason's collapses in moral-psychological rather than religious terms. By changing the way in which the irrational is conceived, and the nature of its relation to reason, Aristotle eliminates the concept of an irrationality which reason cannot in principle dissolve. The book culminates in an extensive reading of Kierkegaard's pseudonyms, who, in a critical retrieval of both Greek tragedy and Aristotle, prescribe their apparently pathological age a paradoxical task: develop a finite form of subjectivity willing to undergo an unthinkable thought ‐ allow the transcendence of a god to enter into the mind as well as the marrow, to make a tragic appearance in which a limit to the immanence of human reason can again be established.
Download or read book Nietzsche s Will to Power written by Raymond Angelo Belliotti and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2016-12-14 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book represents a unique contribution to Nietzschean scholarship in its analysis of the concept of power as preliminary to addressing Nietzsche’s psychological version of will to power. It advances a fresh interpretation of will to power that connects it explicitly to the meaning of human life, and, in so doing, the author addresses major questions such as: What does will to power designate? What does it presuppose? What effects does it engender? What is its status, epistemologically and metaphysically? How is will to power to be evaluated? How persuasive is will to power as an explanation of fundamental human instincts and as the lynchpin of a way of life? The volume argues that Nietzsche’s psychological notion of will to power cannot plausibly be understood as merely a first-order drive to attain and exert power. Moreover, despite some of the philosopher’s extravagant rhetoric, will to power is not an inherent instinct to oppress other people or things. Instead, will to power, understood generically, is a second-order desire to have, pursue and attain first-order desires; it bears a relationship to confronting and overcoming resistances and obstacles, and is related to the pursuit of excellence and personal transformation, as well as to experiences of feeling power. As, according to Nietzsche’s account, all human beings embody will to power, the book concludes that we should distinguish at least three varieties: robust, moderate, and attenuated will to power. Only by doing this, can we understand and evaluate will to power concretely.
Download or read book The Will to Power written by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-04-08 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Will to Power - An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values by Friedrich Nietzsche Translated By Anthony m. Ludovici VOL. I BOOKS I AND II The will to power is a prominent concept in the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche. The will to power describes what Nietzsche may have believed to be the main driving force in humans - achievement, ambition, and the striving to reach the highest possible position in life. These are all manifestations of the will to power; however, the concept was never systematically defined in Nietzsche's work, leaving its interpretation open to debate. Alfred Adler incorporated the will to power into his individual psychology. This can be contrasted to the other Viennese schools of psychotherapy: Sigmund Freud's pleasure principle (will to pleasure) and Viktor Frankl's logotherapy. Each of these schools advocates and teaches a very different essential driving force in human beings. Throughout the 1880s, in his notebooks, Nietzsche also developed an equally elusive theory of the "eternal recurrence of the same" and much speculation on the physical possibility of this idea and the mechanics of its actualization recur in his later notebooks. Here, the will to power as a potential physics is integrated with the postulated eternal recurrence. Taken literally as a theory for how things are, Nietzsche appears to imagine a physical universe of perpetual struggle and force that repeatedly completes its cycle and returns to the beginning.
