Unavailable
Unavailable
Unavailable
Ebook415 pages5 hours
Nietzsche's Final Teaching
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
5/5
()
Currently unavailable
Currently unavailable
About this ebook
In the seven and a half years before his collapse into madness, Nietzsche completed Thus Spoke Zarathustra, the best-selling and most widely read philosophical work of all time, as well as six additional works that are today considered required reading for Western intellectuals. Together, these works mark the final period of Nietzsche’s thought, when he developed a new, more profound, and more systematic teaching rooted in the idea of the eternal recurrence, which he considered his deepest thought.
Cutting against the grain of most current Nietzsche scholarship, Michael Allen Gillespie presents the thought of the late Nietzsche as Nietzsche himself intended, drawing not only on his published works but on the plans for the works he was unable to complete, which can be found throughout his notes and correspondence. Gillespie argues that the idea of the eternal recurrence transformed Nietzsche’s thinking from 1881 to 1889. It provided both the basis for his rejection of traditional metaphysics and the grounding for the new logic, ontology, theology, and anthropology he intended to create with the aim of a fundamental transformation of European civilization, a “revaluation of all values.” Nietzsche first broached the idea of the eternal recurrence in Thus Spoke Zarathustra, but its failure to gain attention or public acceptance led him to present the idea again through a series of works intended to culminate in a never-completed magnum opus. Nietzsche believed this idea would enable the redemption of humanity. At the same time, he recognized its terrifying, apocalyptic consequences, since it would also produce wars of unprecedented ferocity and destruction.
Through his careful analysis, Gillespie reveals a more radical and more dangerous Nietzsche than the humanistic or democratic Nietzsche we commonly think of today, but also a Nietzsche who was deeply at odds with the Nietzsche imagined to be the forefather of Fascism. Gillespie’s essays examine Nietzsche’s final teaching—its components and its political, philosophical, and theological significance. The book concludes with a critical examination and a reflection on its meaning for us today.
Cutting against the grain of most current Nietzsche scholarship, Michael Allen Gillespie presents the thought of the late Nietzsche as Nietzsche himself intended, drawing not only on his published works but on the plans for the works he was unable to complete, which can be found throughout his notes and correspondence. Gillespie argues that the idea of the eternal recurrence transformed Nietzsche’s thinking from 1881 to 1889. It provided both the basis for his rejection of traditional metaphysics and the grounding for the new logic, ontology, theology, and anthropology he intended to create with the aim of a fundamental transformation of European civilization, a “revaluation of all values.” Nietzsche first broached the idea of the eternal recurrence in Thus Spoke Zarathustra, but its failure to gain attention or public acceptance led him to present the idea again through a series of works intended to culminate in a never-completed magnum opus. Nietzsche believed this idea would enable the redemption of humanity. At the same time, he recognized its terrifying, apocalyptic consequences, since it would also produce wars of unprecedented ferocity and destruction.
Through his careful analysis, Gillespie reveals a more radical and more dangerous Nietzsche than the humanistic or democratic Nietzsche we commonly think of today, but also a Nietzsche who was deeply at odds with the Nietzsche imagined to be the forefather of Fascism. Gillespie’s essays examine Nietzsche’s final teaching—its components and its political, philosophical, and theological significance. The book concludes with a critical examination and a reflection on its meaning for us today.
Unavailable
Read more from Michael Allen Gillespie
Nietzsche's Final Teaching Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHegel, Heidegger, and the Ground of History Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Theological Origins of Modernity Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related to Nietzsche's Final Teaching
Related ebooks
Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5What a Philosopher Is: Becoming Nietzsche Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWhat is Nietzsche's Zarathustra?: A Philosophical Confrontation Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSimply Nietzsche Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5The Challenge of Nietzsche: How to Approach His Thought Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHuman, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Essential Nietzsche Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTweetable Nietzsche: His Essential Ideas Revealed and Explained Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsExistentialism: A Beginner's Guide Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Portable Nietzsche (Portable Library) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Friedrich Nietzsche Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Kierkegaard's Writings, XI, Volume 11: Stages on Life's Way Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Nietzsche For Beginners Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Will to Power Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Birth of Tragedy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5German Existentialism Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5The Genealogy of Morals (Translated by Horace B. Samuel with an Introduction by Willard Huntington Wright) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Pragmatism Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Kierkegaard's Universe. A Guide to the Genius Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHow Philosophy Became Socratic: A Study of Plato's "Protagoras," "Charmides," and "Republic" Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5German Idealism: The Struggle against Subjectivism, 1781–1801 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Kant's Philosophical Revolution: A Short Guide to the Critique of Pure Reason Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThus Spoke Zarathustra (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Collected Works of Spinoza, Volumes I and II: One-Volume Digital Edition Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Persecution and the Art of Writing Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Fragments of Heraclitus Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Heidegger's Children: Hannah Arendt, Karl Löwith, Hans Jonas, and Herbert Marcuse Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
History & Theory For You
The Prince: Second Edition Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Art of War Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The End Is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings9/11 Synthetic Terror: Made in USA, 5th edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Theory of Justice: Original Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Five Minds for the Future Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Origins Of Totalitarianism Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Summary Guide: The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene | The Mindset Warrior Summary Guide Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Reconstruction Updated Edition: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-18 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Republic by Plato Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Wretched of the Earth Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How to Blow Up a Pipeline: Learning to Fight in a World on Fire Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Fourth Turning Is Here: What the Seasons of History Tell Us about How and When This Crisis Will End Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Is Administrative Law Unlawful? Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Intellectuals: From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5On War: With linked Table of Contents Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Death of Democracy: Hitler's Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Consequences of Capitalism: Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Psychology of Totalitarianism Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Age of Reason Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Antisemitism: Part One of The Origins of Totalitarianism Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Socialism . . . Seriously: A Brief Guide to Human Liberation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Bloodbath Nation Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Essential Chomsky Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Reviews for Nietzsche's Final Teaching
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
5/5
1 rating0 reviews