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Contesting Nietzsche (Paperback)
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Contesting Nietzsche (Paperback)
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A brilliant exploration of a significant and understudied aspect of
Nietzsche's philosophy. 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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