Agonal Perspectives on Nietzsche's Philosophy of Critical Transvaluation

Herman W. Siemens

book: Agonal Perspectives on Nietzsche's Philosophy of Critical Transvaluation

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Agonal Perspectives on Nietzsche's Philosophy of Critical Transvaluation

Herman W. Siemens
Funded by: The Dutch Research Council (NWO)

Volume 74 in the series Monographien und Texte zur Nietzsche-Forschung

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110722291

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Nietzsche’s strengths as a critic are widely acknowledged, but his peculiar style of critique is usually ignored as rhetoric, or dismissed as violent or simply incoherent. In this book, Nietzsche’s concept of the agon or Wettkampf, a measured and productive form of conflict inspired by ancient Greek culture, is advanced as the dynamic and organising principle of his philosophical practice, enabling us to make sense of his critical confrontations and the much disputed concept of transvaluation or Umwertung. Agonal perspectives are cast on number of key problems in his thought across a broad range of texts. Topics and problems treated include: critical history and the need for a limit in the negation of the past; Nietzsche contra Socrates and the problem of closure; Nietzsche contra humanism and the problem of humanity; Nietzsche contra Kant on genius and legislation; the problem of self-legislation in relation to life and temporality; Nietzsche’s sense of community in its articulation with law, and the normativity of taste; ressentiment and the question of therapy in Nietzsche and Freud; and the problem of total affirmation in relation to critique.

These studies have a broad appeal, from MA level to advanced Nietzsche research.

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Herman W. Siemens, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands.

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Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	I
Acknowledgements Open Access Download PDF	IX
Contents Open Access Download PDF	XI
Translations of Nietzsche’s Writings Open Access Download PDF	XV
References to Nietzsche’s Writings Open Access Download PDF	XVII
Abbreviations and References for Nietzsche Open Access Download PDF	XIX
Introduction Open Access Download PDF	1
Chapter 1 The Art of Limited Warfare: Nietzsche’s Hammer and the Need to Find a Limit in Negation Open Access Download PDF	23
Chapter 2 Nietzsche’s Agon and the Transvaluation of Humanism Open Access Download PDF	42
Chapter 3 Performing the Agon: Towards an Agonal Model for Critical Transvaluation Open Access Download PDF	66
Chapter 4 The First Transvaluation of All Values: Nietzsche’s Agon with Socrates in The Birth of Tragedy Open Access Download PDF	89
Chapter 5 Agonal Configurations in the Unzeitgemässe Betrachtungen: The Problem of Origins, Originality and Mimesis in Genius and Culture (Nietzsche and Kant) Open Access Download PDF	111
Chapter 6 Of (Self‐)Legislation, Life and Love Open Access Download PDF	153
Chapter 7 Law and Community in the Agon: Agonal Communities of Taste and Lawfulness without a Law Open Access Download PDF	184
Chapter 8 Nietzsche’s Agon with Ressentiment: Towards a Therapeutic Reading of Critical Transvaluation (Nietzsche and Freud) Open Access Download PDF	220
Chapter 9 Umwertung: Nietzsche’s ‘War-Praxis’ and the Problem of Yes-Saying and No- Saying in Ecce Homo Open Access Download PDF	255
Agon-Related Publications by the Author Open Access Download PDF	280
Bibliography Open Access Download PDF	282
Name Index Open Access Download PDF	289
Subject Index Open Access Download PDF	290

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Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars and advanced students of Philosophy, Literary Theory, Cultural Studies, Psychology, and German
Pages
- Front matter: 20
- Main content: 303
Keywords: Nietzsche; agon; conflict; Umwertung

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Published: November 8, 2021
ISBN: 9783110722291

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Published: November 22, 2021
ISBN: 9783110722284

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Published: May 8, 2023
ISBN: 9783111266725