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Nietzsche on morality and the affirmation of life
At the core of Nietzsche's famous critique of 'morality' lies the sweeping claim that morality is the primary source of a stance of 'life-denial', and hence an obstacle to the possibility of an affirmative stance towards life. Moral values, Nietzsche argues, are inimical to the affirmation of life, since they typically denigrate certain ineliminable features of the world and human existence (suffering, loss, impermanence, the body, instinctual desire). Other values, allegedly, are life-affirming because they cultivate or augment a life-affirming tendency. Nietzsche's pervasive concern with undermining morality and fostering an affirmative attitude towards life are thus closely intertwined. He attacks morality because it underwrites a condemnation of life and seeks to supplant morality with an alternative, life-enhancing ethics of affirmation. This volume brings together a number of new essays by leading Nietzsche scholars to examine these centrally important and overlapping themes in Nietzsche's philosophical enterprise.
Introduction / Daniel Came -- Nietzsche, nihilism, and the paradox of affirmation Ken Gemes -- Nietzsche as a Christian thinker / Daniel Came -- Ressentiment, power, and value / Bernard Reginster -- On the 'Meaning' of the ascetic ideal : a normative interpretation of GM III / Maudemarie Clark -- Organic unity and the heroic : Nietzsche's aestheticization of suffering / Patrick Hassan -- Affirmation, admirable overvaluation, and the eternal recurrence / Andrew Huddleston -- Who, or what, says yes to life? / Christopher Janaway -- Against Nietzsche's theory of affirmation / Tom Stern -- Life's Affirmation and Denial, Edward Kanterian.
Includes bibliographical references and index.