Download or read book Nietzsche Religion and Mood written by Sampsa Andrei Saarinen and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-05-20 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does Nietzsche, as psychologist, envision the future of religion and atheism? While there has been no lack of “psychological” studies that have sought to illuminate Nietzsche's philosophy of religion by interpreting his biography, this monograph is the first comprehensive study to approach the topic through the philosopher's own psychological thinking. The author shows how Nietzsche's critical writings on religion, and especially on religious decline and future possibilities, are informed by his psychological thinking about moods. The author furthermore argues that the clarification of this aspect of the philosopher’s work is essential to interpreting some of the most ambiguous words found in his writings; the words that God is dead. Instead of merely denying the existence of God in a way that leaves a melancholic need for religion or a futile search for replacements intact, Nietzsche arguably envisions the possibility of a radical atheism, which is characterized by a mood of joyful doubt. The examination of this vision should be of great interest to scholars of Nietzsche and of the history of philosophy, but also of relevance to all those who take an interest in the interdisciplinary discourse on secularization.
Download or read book Nietzsche s Philosophy of Religion written by Julian Young and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-04-06 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his first book, The Birth of Tragedy, Nietzsche observes that Greek tragedy gathered people together as a community in the sight of their gods, and argues that modernity can be rescued from 'nihilism' only through the revival of such a festival. This is commonly thought to be a view which did not survive the termination of Nietzsche's early Wagnerianism, but Julian Young argues, on the basis of an examination of all of Nietzsche's published works, that his religious communitarianism in fact persists through all his writings. What follows, it is argued, is that the mature Nietzsche is neither an 'atheist', an 'individualist', nor an 'immoralist': he is a German philosopher belonging to a German tradition of conservative communitarianism - though to claim him as a proto-Nazi is radically mistaken. This important reassessment will be of interest to all Nietzsche scholars and to a wide range of readers in German philosophy.
Download or read book Psychology in Nietzsche s Criticism of Religion written by Jan-Olav Henriksen and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2022-11-14 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nietzsche and the Gods written by Weaver Santaniello and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2001-10-05 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I have slain all gods—for the sake of morality!" — Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Although often regarded as an atheist who did not take religion seriously, Nietzsche in fact thought deeply about the gods and how they functioned in the human psyche. The son of a Lutheran pastor who dropped theology in college after only one semester, Nietzsche was a profound religious thinker who devoted much of his writing to reevaluating the concept of god that prevailed in nineteenth-century Germany. As this volume demonstrates, Nietzsche sharply discerned between the positive and negative aspects of various gods, including the Christian God, the Jewish God (Yahweh), the Greek gods (especially Apollo and Dionysus), and the Buddha. The essays further touch upon Nietzsche's relationship to prominent religious thinkers of his time, as well as his influence on later religious thinkers, such as Martin Buber and Paul Tillich. Wide-ranging and diverse, Nietzsche and the Gods will be indispensable to our continuing understanding of Nietzsche's thought and to the broader study of philosophy and religion.
Download or read book The Happy Science written by Friedrich Nietzsche and published by Livraria Press. This book was released on with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Happy Science", sometimes translated as "The Gay Science" or "The Joyful Science" is a pivotal work in which Nietzsche further develops his critique of traditional values and his vision of a life-affirming philosophy beyond the Pessimistic outlook on reality he inherited from Schopenhauer. The book is known for its proclamation of the "death of God" and the challenges it poses to the foundations of morality and religion. In this work, Nietzsche emphasizes the importance of embracing uncertainty and creating one's own values, advocating for a joyful and creative approach to life. The Happy Science is notable for its aphoristic style and its blend of poetic and philosophical elements, echoing Nietzsche's belief in the interconnectedness of art and philosophy, and is one of the most elegant books of Nietzsche. Written while he was living in Genoa, Italy, the text is notable for its aphoristic style (borrowed from Schopenhauer, who borrowed from Rabelais and Erasmus) and its exploration of themes such as the affirmation of life, the death of God, and eternal recurrence. Nietzsche's concept of the "happy science" refers to a joyful and liberated approach to philosophy, one that embraces the uncertainty and chaos of existence with a playful and creative spirit. The book includes famous passages such as "The Madman," which proclaims the death of God and examines the profound implications of this event for Western civilization. Camus would go on to create a watered-down version of this "positivist nihilism," all based on Schopenhauer's pessimism. The text marks a transition from Nietzsche's earlier, more skeptical and critical writings to a more affirmative and constructive phase of his philosophy. It foreshadows the themes he would develop in Thus Spoke Zarathustra, including the superman and the will to power. The work's cheerful and provocative tone reflects Nietzsche's call for a reassessment of values and a new way of thinking that transcends traditional moral and metaphysical constraints. "Die fröhliche Wissenschaft" was first published in Leipzig, Germany, in 1882 by the publishing house E. W. Fritzsch. This is a new 2024 translation from this original 1882 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 Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche written by Peacock Books and published by . This book was released on 2020-08 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond Good and Evil is a book by philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche that expands the ideas of his previous work Thus Spoke Zarathustra with a more critical and polemical approach. In Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche accuses past philosophers of lacking critical sense and blindly accepting dogmatic premises in their consideration of morality. Specifically, he accuses them of founding grand metaphysical systems upon the faith that the good man is the opposite of the evil man, rather than just a different expression of the same basic impulses that find more direct expression in the evil man. The work moves into the realm "beyond good and evil" in the sense of leaving behind the traditional morality which Nietzsche subjects to a destructive critique in favour of what he regards as an affirmative approach that fearlessly confronts the perspectival nature of knowledge and the perilous condition of the modern individual.
Download or read book Nietzsche The Anti Christ Ecce Homo Twilight of the Idols written by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-10-27 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers new translations of five of Nietzsche's late works.
Download or read book God is Dead God Remains Dead And We Have Killed Him written by Friedrich Nietzsche and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2020-09-24 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'We have left dry land and put out to sea! We have burned the bridge behind us - what is more, we have burned the land behind us!' Nietzsche's devastating demolition of religion would have seismic consequences for future generations. With God dead, he envisages a brilliant future for humanity: one in which individuals would at last be responsible for their destinies. One of twenty new books in the bestselling Penguin Great Ideas series. This new selection showcases a diverse list of thinkers who have helped shape our world today, from anarchists to stoics, feminists to prophets, satirists to Zen Buddhists.
Download or read book What Nietzsche Taught written by Willard Huntington Wright and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-04-04 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: What Nietzsche Taught by Willard Huntington Wright
Download or read book Human All Too Human written by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2019-10-11 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits” is a 1878 book by 19th-century philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. It represents Nietzsche's first work in the aphoristic style that would become a dominant force in his writings, exploring a range of ideas in short sayings or paragraphs. This fascinating volume is not to be missed by those with an interest in philosophy and constitutes a must-read for fans and collectors of Nietzsche influential work. Contents include: “Of the First and Last Things”, “History of the Moral Feelings”, and “Religious Life”. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844–1900) was a German critic, philosopher, composer, philologist, poet, and Latin and Greek scholar. Other notable works by this author include: “Thus Spoke Zarathustra” (1892), “The Antichrist” (1888), and “The Birth of Tragedy” (1872). Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with the original text and artwork.
Download or read book Nietzsche and the Shadow of God written by Didier Franck and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Nietzsche and the Shadow of God (Nietzsche et l’ombre de Dieu), his study of Nietzsche’s integral philosophical corpus, Franck revisits the fundamental concepts of Nietzsche’s thought, from the death of God and the will to power, to the body as the seat of thinking and valuing, and finally to his conception of a post-Christian justice. The work engages Heidegger’s interpretation of Nietzsche’s destruction of the Platonic-Christian worldview, showing how Heidegger’s hermeneutic overlooked Nietzsche’s powerful confrontation with revelation and justice by working through the Christian body, as set forth in the Epistles of Saint Paul and reread both by Martin Luther and by German Idealism. Franck shows systematically how Nietzsche “transvalued” the metaphysical tenets of the Christian body of believers. In so doing, he provides an unparalleled demonstration of the coherence of Nietzsche’s project and the ways in which the revaluation of values, amor fati, and the trials of eternal recurrence reshape the living self toward a creative existence beyond original sin—indeed, beyond an ethics of “good” versus “evil.” Bergo and Farah’s clear translation introduces this work to an English-speaking audience for the first time.
Download or read book Nietzsche on Human Emotions written by Yunus Tuncel and published by Schwabe Verlag (Basel). This book was released on 2021-11-23 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much has been said on particular feelings that appear in Nietzsche's works, such as pity, revenge, altruism, guilt, shame, and ressentiment. But there has not been a significant study on Nietzsche's overall teachings on feeling and emotion. What does Nietzsche mean by feeling and the related phenomena? Out of such disparate types of feelings and disparate reflections by Nietzsche on them, can one make sense or can one speak of a theory of feelings in Nietzsche? If so, how does this theory fit with his philosophy of value? On the other hand, how do his teachings relate to some of the later concepts of his philosophy such as the overhuman, the will to power and the eternal return of the same? While the book will contextualize Nietzsche's emotive theory in relation to other emotive theories in the history of ideas, it will also explore Nietzsche's influence on later generations in this area. "Although Nietzsche is a brilliant and original philosopher of the emotions and passions there has been to date no concerted attempt to present and examine him as such. This admirable study by Yunus Tuncel goes a long way towards meeting this need and is essential reading for all scholars and readers of Nietzsche." Keith Ansell-Pearson, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, University of Warwick "It's remarkable there hasn't been a good book on Nietzsche and the emotions – until this remarkable work by Yunus Tuncel. His insightful discussions range from ressentiment and Schadenfreude to a crucial emotion in these sad times: the feeling of power." Graham Parkes, University of Vienna
Download or read book The Joyful Wisdom La Gaya Scienza written by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-16 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Joyful Wisdom ("La Gaya Scienza")" by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Download or read book Nietzsche s Philosophy of Art written by Julian Young and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a clear and lucid account of Nietzsche's philosophy of art.
Download or read book The Joyful Wisdom written by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2023-10-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Joyful Wisdom by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche: The Joyful Wisdom, also known as The Gay Science, is a philosophical work by Friedrich Nietzsche. In this book, Nietzsche explores various themes, including the nature of truth, the eternal recurrence, the death of God, and the concept of the Ubermensch. With his characteristic wit and provocative style, Nietzsche challenges conventional wisdom and invites readers to question deeply held beliefs and embrace a life-affirming philosophy. Key Aspects of the Book "The Joyful Wisdom": Philosophical Exploration: The book delves into Nietzsche's philosophical ideas, offering insights into his thoughts on truth, morality, religion, and the human condition. Provocative and Contrarian Perspectives: Nietzsche's writing challenges traditional beliefs and offers alternative viewpoints, encouraging readers to engage in critical thinking and self-reflection. Affirmation of Life: The Joyful Wisdom promotes the idea of embracing life's challenges, finding joy in the present moment, and creating meaning in a world without absolute truths. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) was a German philosopher, cultural critic, and writer. He is known for his works that critique traditional values and morality, and his influence on existentialism, nihilism, and postmodernism. The Joyful Wisdom is a significant contribution to Nietzsche's body of work and showcases his distinct philosophical style and thought-provoking ideas.
Download or read book What Nietzsche Taught written by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Beyond Good and Evil written by Nietzsche and published by VM eBooks. This book was released on 2016-02-18 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INDEX PREFACE Chapter I. PREJUDICES OF PHILOSOPHERS Chapter II. THE FREE SPIRIT Chapter III. THE RELIGIOUS MOOD Chapter IV. APOPHTHEGMS AND INTERLUDES Chapter V. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF MORALS Chapter VI. WE SCHOLARS Chapter VII. OUR VIRTUES Chapter VIII. PEOPLES AND COUNTRIES Chapter IX. WHAT IS NOBLE?
