TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lemm,Vanessa
TI  - Nietzsche and the Becoming of Life
SN  - 9780823262885
AV  - B3317 .N548 2015 
U1  - 193 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - New York
PB  - Fordham University Press
KW  - Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm,-1844-1900
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Cover -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I: CONTESTING NIETZSCHE'S NATURALISM -- 1 The Optics of Science, Art, and Life: How Tragedy Begins -- 2 Nietzsche, Nature, and Life Affirmation -- PART II: EVOLUTION, TELEOLOGY, AND THE LAWS OF NATURE -- 3 Is Evolution Blind? On Nietzsche's Reception of Darwin -- 4 Nietzsche and the Nineteenth-Century Debate on Teleology -- 5 Nietzsche's Conception of "Necessity" and Its Relation to "Laws of Nature" -- PART III: JUSTICE AND THE LAW OF LIFE -- 6 Life and Justice in Nietzsche's Conception of History -- 7 Life, Injustice, and Recurrence -- 8 Heeding the Law of Life: Receptivity, Submission, Hospitality -- PART IV: THE BECOMING OF A NEW BODY AND SENSIBILITY -- 9 Toward the Body of the Overman -- 10 Nietzsche's Synaesthetic Epistemology and the Restitution of the Holistic Human -- 11 Nietzsche's Naturalist Morality of Breeding: A Critique of Eugenics as Taming -- 12 An "Other Way of Being." The Nietzschean "Animal": Contributions to the Question of Biopolitics -- PART V: PURIFICATION AND THE FREEDOM OF DEATH -- 13 Nietzsche and the Transformation of Death -- 14 Becoming and Purification: Empedocles, Zarathustra's Übermensch, and Lucian's Tyrant -- PART VI: THE BECOMING OF THE SOUL: NOMADISM AND SELF - EXPERIMENT -- 15 "Falling in Love with Becoming": Remarks on Nietzsche and Emerson -- 16 "We Are Experiments": Nietzsche on Morality and Authenticity -- 17 States and Nomads: Hegel's World and Nietzsche's Earth -- Notes -- List of Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z
N2  - Nietzsche advocates the affirmation of earthly life as a way to counteract nihilism and asceticism. This volume takes stock of the complexities and wide-ranging perspectives that Nietzsche brings to bear on the problem of life's becoming on earth by engaging various interpretative paradigms reaching from existentialist to Darwinist readings of Nietzsche
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