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Contesting Nietzsche (Hardcover)
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Contesting Nietzsche (Hardcover)
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In this groundbreaking work, Christa Davis Acampora offers a
profound rethinking of Friedrich Nietzsche's crucial notion of the
agon. Analyzing an impressive array of primary and secondary
sources and synthesizing decades of Nietzsche scholarship, she
shows how the agon, or contest, organized core areas of Nietzsche's
philosophy, providing a new appreciation of the subtleties of his
notorious views about power. By focusing so intensely on this
particular guiding interest, she offers an exciting, original
vantage from which to view this iconic thinker: "Contesting
Nietzsche". Though existence - viewed through the lens of
Nietzsche's agon - is fraught with struggle, Acampora illuminates
what Nietzsche recognized as the agon's generative benefits. It
imbues the human experience with significance, meaning, and value.
Analyzing Nietzsche's elaborations of agonism - his remarks on
types of contests, qualities of contestants, and the conditions in
which either may thrive or deteriorate - she demonstrates how much
the agon shaped his philosophical projects and critical assessments
of others. The agon led him from one set of concerns to the next,
from aesthetics to metaphysics to ethics to psychology, via Homer,
Socrates, Saint Paul, and Wagner. In showing how one obsession
catalyzed so many diverse interests, "Contesting Nietzsche" sheds
fundamentally new light on some of this philosopher's most
difficult and paradoxical ideas.
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