The Soul of Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil: A Reading of beyond Good and Evil
Author(s): Maudemarie Clark
This book presents a provocative new interpretation of Beyond Good and Evil, arguably Nietzsche's most important work. The problem is that it appears to express merely a loosely connected set of often questionable opinions. Can Nietzsche really be an important philosopher if this is his most important book? Maudemarie Clark and David Dudrick address this question with a close reading that emphasizes how Nietzsche writes. They argue that the first part of Beyond Good and Evil presents coherent and interconnected arguments for subtle and well-thought-out positions on traditional issues. Nietzsche's infamous doctrine of the will to power turns out to be a compelling account of the structure and origin of the human soul. And although he rejects some aspects of traditional philosophy, Nietzsche's aim is to show how philosophy's traditional aspirations to seek both the true and the good can be fulfilled. Beyond Good and Evil turns out to be a major work of philosophy and Nietzsche's masterpiece.
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This is a groundbreaking work that promises to revolutionize the field of Nietzsche studies by getting scholars to focus on Nietzsche s account of the normative domain and to consider how that account sits with his naturalism. Ken Gemes, Birkbeck College and the New College of the Humanities
Maudemarie Clark is Professor of Philosophy at University of California, Riverside and George Carleton, Jr Professor of Philosophy at Colgate University. She is the author of Nietzsche on Truth and Philosophy (Cambridge University Press, 1990), translator and editor (with Alan Swensen) of On the Genealogy of Morality (1998) and editor (with Brian Leiter) of Daybreak (Cambridge University Press, 1982). David Dudrick is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Colgate University. His work has appeared in the European Journal of Philosophy, American Philosophical Quarterly and International Studies in Philosophy.
Introduction; Part I. The Will to Truth and the Will to Value: 1. Setting the stage: Neitzsche's preface; 2. Understanding the 'magnificent tension of the spirit'; 3. Philosophy and the will to value; 4. Science and the will to truth; 5. Satisfying the will to truth and the will to value; Part II. The Will to Power: 6. Nietzsche's soul; 7. The will; 8. The other doctrines of the will to power; Conclusion.
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- : Cambridge University Press
- : Cambridge University Press
- : 0.408
- : 01 May 2012
- : 228mm X 152mm X 18mm
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 October 2012
- : books
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- : Maudemarie Clark
- : Paperback
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