Nietzsche and Paradox

Rogerio Miranda De Almeida, Mark S. Roberts

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Newly translated into English, this book analyzes the paradoxical discourse that flows through and fundamentally characterizes Nietzsche's writings. Examining Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy; Human, All Too Human; Beyond Good and Evil; On the Genealogy of Morals; and The Antichrist; Rogério Miranda de Almeida patiently opens these texts to the multiplicity of truths that unfold through the process of continuous reinterpretation and reevaluation. Never formally defining the contradictions within Nietzsche's conception of metaphysics, religion, art, science, and philosophy, Miranda de Almeida acknowledges instead that the history of thought, and the development of Nietzsche's writings in particular, is an interplay of forces and drives, encroachment and surrender, construction and destruction, overcoming and transformation, lack and fulfillment, satisfaction and dissatisfaction, pleasure and displeasure, pain and delight. This book reveals the endless perspectives and truths that Nietzsche creates and transforms.

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• Philosophy

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• Publié par: State University of New York Press
• Date de parution: 01 février 2012
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780791481127
• Langue: English

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Nietzsche and Paradox

Rogério Miranda de Almeida Translated by Mark S. Roberts

Nietzsche and Paradox

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Nietzsche and Paradox

Rogério Miranda de Almeida

Translated by Mark S. Roberts

State University of New York Press

Published by State University of New York Press, Albany

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Almeida, Rogério Miranda de. [Nietzshe et le paradoxe. English] Nietzsche and paradox / Rogerio Miranda de Almeida ; translated by Mark S. Roberts. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13: 978-0-7914-6889-0 (hardcover : alk. paper) ISBN-10: 0-7914-6889-5 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844–1900. I. Title.

B3317.A42613 2006 193—dc22

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To Mazrcelo Fabri, Moacir Bandin and Germano Rigacci, Jr.

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Preface

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

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Contents

The Birth of Tragedy Apollo and Dionysus Justification by Aesthetics and the Question of Nature Socrates, Tragedy, Science Nihilism,Ressentiment, “Great Pan Is Dead” What WillsThe Birth of Tragedy?

The Interval: Human, All Too Human The World as Representation and Error Science, Art, Religion The Relation of Forces, The Will to Power, Morality “Descent into Hades”

Thought and Writing as Artifice Of Style and Masks Suffering, Writing, Transfigurations The Eternal Return, Will to Power,Amor Fati

Nietzsche and Christianity St. Paul, the Jewish Pascal Such People, Such Gods

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Providence, Beautiful Chaos and Sublime Chance “We Godless Others” “Who Are We Anyway?”

Morality Exceeded by Morality “We the Good” Guilt and Bad Conscience Ascetic Ideals Zarathustra, Moralist

Beyond Good and Evil Of Reading and Rewriting The True, the False, Appearances “In the Horizon of the Infinite”

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Preface

These reflections are not intended to present an explication, still less a synthesis of Nietzsche’s philosophy. Given the extremely fragmentary and diffuse character of his thought, such an undertaking would be doomed to fail from the very outset. Our proposal here is, rather, to focus on para- dox, or the paradoxes that Nietzsche expresses through his writing, and thus through the great diversity of perspectives and rereadings operative in the domains of art, science, religion, morality, philosophy, and culture in general. If one conceives, as we do, the Nietzschean text as divergent and as what resists or escapes the order of discourse as such, it would be a mis- take to seek a ground or a model that guarantees and explicates the plu- rality of meanings that engender the unfolding of his writing. In other words, Nietzschean thought discloses itself only to the extent that, para- doxically, it is masked, reread,reiterated, and stripped of all constraint, all mastery and interpretation. To be sure, the traditional commentators on Nietzsche are unanimous in admitting that his oeuvre contains “contradictions” and ambiguities. But these contradictions invoke, as often as not, “apparent contradictions” in the sense that they would be—unknown to Nietzsche himself—a logi- cal thread carrying these texts to a coherent and continuous whole. Among these authors are Karl Jaspers, Martin Heidgegger, Walter Kaufmann, Jean Wahl, and, more recently, Wolfgang Müller-Lauter. In his book,Nietzsche: His Philosophy of Contradictions and Contradictions of His Philosophy(first German edition, 1971), Müller-Lauter sees in the Will to Power the con- cept by which all Nietzsche’s contradictions would be explained. Yet our purpose is not, at least not primarily, to establish a confrontation between Nietzsche’s writings and his commentators. As a matter of fact, the principal themes of the Nietzschean oeuvre that we develop—that is, the will to power, the relation of forces,

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