On what grounds could life be made worth living, given its abundant
suffering? Friedrich Nietzsche was among many who attempted to
answer this question. While always seeking to resist pessimism,
Nietzsche's strategy for doing so, and the extent to which he was
willing to concede conceptual grounds to pessimists, shifted
dramatically over time. His reading of pessimists such as Eduard
von Hartmann, Olga Plümacher, and Julius Bahnsen—as well as
their critics, such as Eugen Dühring and James Sully—has been
under-explored in the secondary literature, isolating him from his
intellectual context. Patrick Hassan's book seeks to correct this.
After closely mapping Nietzsche's philosophical development on to
the relevant axiological and epistemological issues, it
disentangles his various critiques of pessimism, elucidating how
familiar Nietzschean themes (e.g. eternal recurrence, aesthetic
justification, will to power, and his critique of Christianity) can
and should be assessed against this philosophical backdrop.
General
Imprint: |
Cambridge UniversityPress
|
Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
October 2023 |
Authors: |
Patrick Hassan
|
Pages: |
284 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-00-938027-0 |
Categories: |
Books
|
LSN: |
1-00-938027-3 |
Barcode: |
9781009380270 |
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