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  title info:
    title: Nietzsche on suffering
  name:
    name part: Janaway, Christopher
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2026
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 77 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Suffering is a theme throughout Nietzsche's writings. His views are often controversial and challenging. He explores ways of understanding suffering not as an 'objection to life', but as something that can enhance life. This Element examines Nietzsche's views on suffering from different angles: his early claim that the representation of suffering in the art form of tragedy enabled the ancient Greeks to affirm life, his analysis of cruelty as an expression of will to power, and his critique of 'the morality of compassion' which he claims would impoverish life by removing its suffering. Nietzsche views suffering as necessary for psychological growth and great human achievement. It is neither good nor bad in itself, and its value depends on who suffers and in what context. Although Nietzsche's rhetoric sometimes glorifies suffering and cruelty irresponsibly, his work advances our understanding of suffering by viewing it through different perspectives and affective attitudes.
  note: Christopher Janaway.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm
      name part: 1844-1900
  subject:
    topic: Suffering
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Souffrance
    topic: Philosophie
  subject:
    topic: Suffering
    topic: Philosophy
  classification: B3318.S75 J36 2026
  classification: 128.4
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Cambridge elements. Elements in the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche
  identifier: 9781009644396
  identifier: 1009644394
  identifier: 9781009417419
  identifier: 100941741X
  record info:
    record content source: UKMGB
    record creation date: 260206
    record change date: 20260605162401.0
    record identifier: in00005785064
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng