Nietzsche's new Darwinism /
Nietzsche wrote in a scientific culture transformed by Darwin, yet most of what he said about Darwin was hostile. In this text, John Richardson argues that Nietzsche was in fact deeply and pervasively influenced by Darwin.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2004.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Biology. Nietzsche's arguments against Darwin ; Problems in the main attack ; Kinds of teleology ; Drives as selected ; Is will to power selected?
- Metaethics. What values are ; Animal values, by natural selection ; Human values, by social selection ; Superhuman values, by self selection (freedom) ; Revaluing values
- Ethics-politics. Links with social Darwinism ; Roots of pity and altruism in natural selection? ; Formation by social selection ; Lessons from this genealogy: whether/how we progress ; Self selection's ethics: revaluing pity and altruism ; Self selection's politics: revaluing equality and civilizing
- Aesthetics. Art versus truth ; Aesthetic drives ; Aesthetic practices ; The new aesthetics.