James S. Pearson

Nietzsche on Conflict, Struggle and War (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Nietzsche controversially valorizes struggle and war as necessary ingredients of human flourishing. In this book, James S. Pearson reconstructs Nietzsche's rationale for placing such high value on relations of conflict. In doing so, Pearson reveals how Nietzsche's celebration of social discord is interwoven with his understanding of nature as universal struggle. This study thus draws together Nietzsche's writings on politics, culture, metaphysics, biology and human psychology. It also overcomes an entrenched dispute in the critical literature. In the past, commentators have tended to interpret Nietzsche either as an advocate of radical aristocratic violence or, by contrast, a defender of moderate democratic contest. This book navigates a path between these two opposed readings and shows how Nietzsche is able to endorse both violent strife and restrained competition without contradicting himself.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009034999
• Artikelnr.: 66176259

Autorenporträt

James S. Pearson is Research Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Tartu. He is the author of numerous articles on modern German philosophy in journals including Inquiry, Social Theory and Practice and The Canadian Journal of Philosophy.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I. Agon Versus War: 1. Reasons for war
2. Bounding Nietzsche's Agon
Part II. The Struggle for Organisation: 3. Conflictual unity in the untimely meditations
4. Organizational struggle in the later Nietzsche
Conclusion.