Title: Nietzsche, nihilism and the philosophy of the future /
Authors: Metzger, Jeffrey A.
Publisher: Continuum,
Year: 2009
Subjects: Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm,; Nihilism (Philosophy)
Abstract: "Nietzsche, Nihilism and the Philosophy of the Future examines Nietzsche's analysis of and response to contemporary nihilism, the sense that nothing has value or meaning. Nine newly-commissioned essays from an influential team of contributors illustrate the richness and complexity of Nietzsche's thought by bringing together a diverse collection of perspectives on Nietzsche."--Jacket.
Contents: Nietzsche's double rhetoric : which nihilism? / Stanley Rosen -- Toward a new aristocracy : Nietzsche contra Plato on the role of a warrior elite / Michael Allen Gillespie -- Nietzsche : nihilism and neo-gnosticism / Stanley Corngold -- Nietzsche rhetoric nihilism : every name in history, every style, everything permitted? (a political philology of the last letter) / Geoff Waite -- Does that sound strange to you? : education and indirection in essay III of on the genealogy of morality / Daniel Conway -- Free spirits and free thinkers : Nietzsche and Guyau on the future of morality / Keith Ansell-Pearson -- How deep are the roots of nihilism? : Nietzsche on the creative power of nature and morality / Jeffrey Metzger -- Nietzsche and the impossibility of nihilism / James I. Porter -- Nietzsche, contingency, and the vacuity of politics / Robert Guay.