| Description |
4 volumes in 2 : facsimiles ; 21 cm |
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v. 1. The will to power as art. v. 2. The eternal recurrence of the same / translated from the German with notes and analysis by David Farrell Krell (1 v. ). -- v. 3. The will to power as knowledge and as metaphysics / translated from the German by Joan Stambaugh, David Farrell Krell, Frank A. Capuzzi ; edited, with notes and an analysis by David Farrell Krell . v. 4. Nihilism / translated from the German by Frank A. Capuzzi ; edited, with notes and an analysis by David Farrell Krell (1 v. ) |
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Contents of vol. 1, The Will to Power as Art: Nietzsche as metaphysical thinker -- The book, The Will to Power -- Plans and preliminary drafts of the "main structure" -- The unity of Will to Power, eternal recurrence, and revaluation -- The structure of the "major work." Nietzsche's manner of thinking as reversal -- The being of beings as will in traditional metaphysics -- Will as will to power -- Will as affect, passion, and feeling -- The idealistic interpretation of Nietzsche's doctrine of will -- Will and power. The essence of power -- The grounding question and the guiding question of philosophy -- Five statements on art -- Six basic developments in the history of aesthetics -- Rapture as aesthetic state -- Kant's doctrine of the beautiful. Its misinterpretation by Schopenhauer and Nietzsche -- Rapture as form-engendering force -- The grand style -- Grounding the five statements on art -- The raging discordance between truth and art -- Truth in Platonism and positivism. Nietzsche's attempt to overturn Platonism on the basis of the fundamental experience of nihilism -- The scope and context of Plato's meditation on the relationship of art and truth -- Plato's Phaedrus : beauty and truth in felicitous discordance -- Nietzsche's overturning of Platonism -- The new interpretation of sensuousness and the raging discordance between art and truth -- Appendix : a manuscript page from the lecture course Nietzsche : der wille zur macht als Kunst [Nietzsche : the will to power as art], winter semester 1936-37 -- Analysis / by David Farrell Krell |
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Contents of vol. 2, The Eternal Recurrence of the Same: Part one : The eternal recurrence of the same. The doctrine of eternal return as the fundamental thought of Nietzsche's metaphysics -- The genesis of the doctrine of return -- Nietzsche's first communication of the doctrine of return -- "Incipit tragoedia" -- The second communication of the doctrine of return -- "On the vision and the riddle" -- Zarathustra's animals -- "The convalescent" -- The third communication of the doctrine of return -- The thought of return in the suppressed notes -- The four notes dated August 1881 -- Summary presentation of the thought : being as a whole life and force ; the world as chaos -- Suspicions concerning the "humanization" of beings -- Nietzsche's proof of the doctrine of return -- The ostensibly scientific procedure of proof. Philosophy and science -- The character of "proof" for the doctrine of return -- The thought of return as a belief -- The thought of return -- and freedom -- Retrospect on the notes from the period of The Gay Science, 1881-82 -- Notes from the Zarathustra period, 1883-84 -- Notes from the period of "The Will to Power," 1884-88 -- The configuration of the doctrine of return -- The domain of the thought of return : the doctrine of return as the overcoming of nihilism -- Moment and eternal recurrence -- The essence of a fundamental metaphysical position ; the possibility of such positions in the history of western philosophy -- Nietzsche's fundamental metaphysical position -- Part two : Who is Nietzsche's Zarathustra? -- Analysis / by David Farrell Krell |
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Contents of vol. 3, The Will to Power as Knowledge and as Metaphysics: Part one : The will to power as knowledge. Nietzsche as the thinker of the consummation of metaphysics -- Nietzsche's so-called major work -- The will to power as principle of a new valuation -- Knowledge in Nietzsche's fundamental thought concerning the essence of truth -- The essence of truth (correctness) as "Estimation of value" -- Nietzsche's alleged biologism -- Western metaphysics as "logic" -- Truth, what is true -- Tracing the opposition of the "true and apparent worlds" back to relations of value -- World and life as "becoming" -- Knowing as schematizing a chaos in accordance with practical need -- The concept of "chaos" -- Practical need as the need for a schema ; formation of a horizon and perspective -- Accordance and calculation -- The poetizing essence of reason -- Nietzsche's "biological" interpretation of knowledge -- The law of contradiction as a law of being : Aristotle -- The law of contradiction as command : Nietzsche -- Truth and the distinction between the "true and apparent worlds" -- The uttermost transformation of metaphysically conceived truth -- Truth as justice -- The essence of will to power ; permanentizing becoming into presence -- Part two : The eternal recurrence of the same and the will to power -- Part three : Nietzsche's metaphysics. Introduction -- The will to power -- Nihilism -- The eternal return of the same -- The overman -- Justice -- Analysis / by David Farrell Krell |
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Contents of vol. 4, Nihilism: Part one : European nihilism. The five major rubrics of Nietzsche's thought -- Nihilism as the "devaluation of the uppermost values" -- Nihilism, Nihil, and nothing -- Nietzsche's conception of cosmology and psychology -- The provenance of nihilism and nihilism's three forms -- The uppermost values as categories -- Nihilism and the man of western history -- The new valuation -- Nihilism as history -- Valuation and will to power -- Subjectivity in Nietzsche's interpretation of history -- Nietzsche's "moral" interpretation of metaphysics -- Metaphysics and anthropomorphism -- The statement of Protagoras -- The dominance of the subject in the modern age -- The Cartesian Cogito as Cogito me Cogitare -- Descartes' Cogito sum -- The fundamental metaphysical positions of Descartes and Protagoras -- Nietzsche's position vis-à -- vis Descartes -- The inner connection between the fundamental positions of Descartes and Nietzsche -- The essential determination of man, and the essence of truth -- The end of metaphysics -- Relations with beings and the relationship to being. The ontological difference -- Being as A Priori -- Being as Idea, as Agathon, and as condition -- The interpretation of being as Idea, and valuative thought -- The projection of being as will to power -- The differentiation between being and beings, and the nature of man -- Being as the void and as abundance -- Part two : Nihilism as determined by the history of being -- Analysis / by David Farrell Krell |
| Notes |
Translation of: Nietzsche |
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Originally published in 4 v. by Harper & Row, 1979-1987 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Translation of: Nietzsche |
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Vol. 3: Translated from the German by Joan Stambaugh, David Farrell Krell, Frank A. Capuzzi |
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Vol. 4: Translated from the German by Frank A. Capuzzi |
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Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900
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| Author |
Krell, David Farrell, translator
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Stambaugh, Joan, 1932- translator
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| LC no. |
90049074 |
| ISBN |
0060638419 (v. 1-2) |
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9780060638412 (v. 1-2) |
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0060637943 (v. 3-4) |
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9780060637941 (v. 3-4) |
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