Contesting Nietzsche / Christa Davis Acampora.

Author/Creator:

Acampora, Christa Davis, author., Author,

Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2013]

Format/Description:

Book
1 online resource (272 p.)

Language:

In English.

System Details:

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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Summary:

In this groundbreaking work, Christa Davis Acampora offers a profound rethinking of Friedrich Nietzsche's crucial notion of the agon. Analyzing an impressive array of primary and secondary sources and synthesizing decades of Nietzsche scholarship, she shows how the agon, or contest, organized core areas of Nietzsche's philosophy, providing a new appreciation of the subtleties of his notorious views about power. By focusing so intensely on this particular guiding interest, she offers an exciting, original vantage from which to view this iconic thinker: Contesting Nietzsche. Though existence-viewed through the lens of Nietzsche's agon-is fraught with struggle, Acampora illuminates what Nietzsche recognized as the agon's generative benefits. It imbues the human experience with significance, meaning, and value. Analyzing Nietzsche's elaborations of agonism-his remarks on types of contests, qualities of contestants, and the conditions in which either may thrive or deteriorate-she demonstrates how much the agon shaped his philosophical projects and critical assessments of others. The agon led him from one set of concerns to the next, from aesthetics to metaphysics to ethics to psychology, via Homer, Socrates, Saint Paul, and Wagner. In showing how one obsession catalyzed so many diverse interests, Contesting Nietzsche sheds fundamentally new light on some of this philosopher's most difficult and paradoxical ideas.

Contents:

Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations and Citations of Nietzsche's Works
Introduction
1. Agon as Analytic, Diagnostic, and Antidote
2. Contesting Homer: The Poiesis of Value
3. Contesting Socrates: Nietzsche's (Artful) Naturalism
4. Contesting Paul: Toward an Ethos of Agonism
5. Contesting Wagner: How One Becomes What One Is
Afterword
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

Contributor:

De Gruyter.

Contained In:

De Gruyter University Press Library.

ISBN:

9780226923918

OCLC:

840258015

Publisher Number:

10.7208/9780226923918 doi

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.

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