Website Search
Find information on spaces, staff, and services.
Catalog Search
Books
The Affirmation of Life : Nietzsche on Overcoming Nihilism
- Author / Creator
- Available as
- Online
- Summary
-
While most recent studies of Nietzsche's works have lost sight of the fundamental question of the meaning of a life characterized by inescapable suffering, Bernard Reginster's book The Affirmation ...
While most recent studies of Nietzsche's works have lost sight of the fundamental question of the meaning of a life characterized by inescapable suffering, Bernard Reginster's book The Affirmation of Life brings it sharply into focus. Reginster identifies overcoming nihilism as a central objective of Nietzsche's philosophical project, and shows how this concern systematically animates all of his main ideas.
Details
- Creator
- Bernard REGINSTER
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
-
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, [2006]
- ©2006
- Physical Details
-
- 1 online resource
- text file PDF
- ISBNs
- 9780674042643, 0674042646
- OCLC
- ocn979910030
- Electronic reproduction. Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.] : Harvard University Press, 2006. Mode of access: World Wide Web. System requirements: Web browser. Access may be restricted to users at subscribing institutions.
- Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
- In English.
- Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter One. Nihilism -- Chapter Two. Overcoming Disorientation -- Chapter Three. The Will to Power -- Chapter Four. Overcoming Despair -- Chapter Five. The Eternal Recurrence -- Chapter Six. Dionysian Wisdom -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index