Nietzsche, nihilism, and the philosophy of the future
By: edited by Jeffrey Metzger.
Contributors: Metzger, Jeffrey A.
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9781847065568
Subjects: Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, -- 1844-1900; Nihilism (Philosophy)
Description: "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.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Nietzsche's double rhetoric : which nihilism / Stanley Rosen; title: Toward a new aristocracy : Nietzsche contra Plato on the role of a warrior elite / Michael Allen Gillespie; title: Nietzsche : nihilism and neo-gnosticism / Stanley Corngold; title: Nietzsche rhetoric nihilism : every name in history, every style, everything permitted? (a political philology of the last letter) / Geoff Waite; title: Does that sound strange to you? : education and indirection in essay III of on the genealogy of morality / Daniel Conway; title: Free spirits and free thinkers : Nietzsche and Guyau on the future of  morality / Keith Ansell-Pearson; title: How deep are the roots of nihilism? : Nietzsche on the creative power of nature and morality / Jeffrey Metzger; title: Nietzsche and the impossibility of nihilism / James Porter; title: Nietzsche, contingency, and the vacuity of politics / Robert Guay.