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Beyond Selflessness - Reading Nietzsche's Genealogy (Hardcover)
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Beyond Selflessness - Reading Nietzsche's Genealogy (Hardcover)
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Christopher Janaway presents a full commentary on Nietzsche's most
studied work, On the Genealogy of Morality, and combines close
reading of key passages with an overview of Nietzsche's wider aims.
Arguing that Nietzsche's goal is to pursue psychological and
historical truths concerning the origins of modern moral values,
Beyond Selflessness differs from other books on Nietzsche in that
it emphasizes the significance of his rhetorical methods as an
instrument of persuasion. Nietzsche's outlook is broadly
naturalist, but he is critical of typical scientific and
philosophical methods for their advocacy of impersonality and
suppression of the affects. In contrast to his opponents,
Schopenhauer and Paul Ree, who both account for morality in terms
of selflessness, Nietzsche believes that our allegiance to a
post-Christian morality that centres around selflessness,
compassion, guilt, and denial of the instincts is not primarily
rational but affective: underlying feelings, often ambivalent and
poorly grasped in conscious thought, explain our moral beliefs. The
Genealogy is designed to detach the reader from his or her
allegiance to morality and prepare for the possibility of new
values. In addition to examining how Nietzsche's "perspectivism"
holds that one can best understand a topic such as morality through
allowing as many of one's feelings as possible to speak about it,
Janaway shows that Nietzsche seeks to enable us to "feel
differently": his provocation of the reader's affects helps us
grasp the affective origins of our attitudes and prepare the way
for healthier values such as the affirmation of life (as tested by
the thought of eternal return) and the self-satisfaction to be
attainedby "giving style to one's character."
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