Kierkegaard's Existential Ethics (Modern Revivals in Philosophy)

Politics & Social Sciences

Stack, George J.

Philosophy

Gregg Revivals

Kierkegaard's Existential Ethics

University of Alabama Press

Kierkegaard's existential ethics (Studies in the humanities : Philosophy ; no. 16)

George J. Stack traces the sources of ideas and theories that have long been considered the exclusive province of Friedrich Nietzsche to the surprisingly radical writings of the American essayist and poet, Ralph Waldo Emerson. Nietzsche and Emerson makes us see Emerson's writings in a new, more intensified light and presents a new perspective on Nietzsche's philosophy. Stack traces how the rich theoretical ideas and literary images of Emerson entered directly into the existential dimension of Nietzsche's thought and hence into the stream of what has been considered a distinctively European intellectual movement.

Nietzsche & Emerson: An Elective Affinity

Ohio University Press

George J. Stack traces the sources of ideas and theories that have long been considered the exclusive province of Friedrich Nietzsche to the surprisingly radical writings of the American essayist and poet, Ralph Waldo Emerson. Nietzsche and Emerson makes us see Emerson's writings in a new, more intensified light and presents a new perspective on Nietzsche's philosophy. Stack traces how the rich theoretical ideas and literary images of Emerson entered directly into the existential dimension of Nietzsche's thought and hence into the stream of what has been considered a distinctively European intellectual movement.

"Sartre's Philosophy of Social Existence" is a critical interpretation of Jean-Paul Sartre's phenomenology of social existence and the dynamics of group-formation. It seeks to trade the foreshadowing of a theory of individual action in the practical field of social existence in "Being and Nothingness" and sees a continuity between this work and Sartre's "Critique of Rational Dialectic" (1960). The movement in Sartre's thought from the abstract freedom of consciousness to concrete freedom and individual "praxis" is illuminated in relation to his description of a complex social dialectic. It is shown that as Sartre develops an account of social group-formation he admits determinations and necessities that undermine his attempt to preserve the idea of free individual "praxis".

Sartre's Philosophy of Social Existence

Warren H. Green

Nietzsche's Anthropic Circle is an internal analysis and interpretation of Nietzsche's critical uncovering of "anthropomorphic truth" in language and science, as well as his later use of anthropic analogies and transferences in his imaginative perspectival interpretation "a hybrid of art and science" of a universal, immanent "will to power" in nature. Both the relationship of Nietzsche to Kant's analysis of knowledge in the Critique of Pure Reason and his absorption of a dynamic theory of nature are explored in some detail. A crucial distinction between Nietzsche's perspectival concept of knowledge and perspectival interpretation is thoroughly discussed against the background of recurring analyses of his critique of knowledge and truth. It is shown that instrumental fictionalism was adopted by Nietzsche in order to put in question the pure objectivism of science. This links an aspect of his thought to the domain of recent American philosophy of science. The anticipatory relationship between Nietzsche's proto-structuralist analysis of language and recent linguistic structuralism, as well as his affiliation with evolutionary epistemology is explored. In the concluding portion of this inquiry it is contended that Nietzsche's psychology of a will to power in human drives, thought and behavior is at least theoretically defensible. However, it must be segregated from the extension of a will to power to the cosmos. There is a strong concluding argument offered that seeks to demonstrate that the so-called 'metaphysics' of the will to power is an artfully constructed, exoteric fable designed to retrieve a sense of the humanization of the world in face of a de-anthropomorphic world picture. George Stack is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the State University College of New York at Brockport, and the author of several books dealing with the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche. Table of Contents Anthropomorphic Projection Agnosticism A Dynamic Theory of Nature Perspectivalism: Knowledge/Interpretation Fictionalism in Science The Structuralist Perspective Evolutionary Epistemology Tragic Knoledge and a Will-to-Power Psychology The Cosmic Will to Power as Fable

Nietzsche's Anthropic Circle: Man, Science, and Myth (Rochester Studies in Philosophy, 11) (Volume 11)

University of Rochester Press

The series presents outstanding monographic interpretations of Nietzsche's work as a whole or of specific themes and aspects. These works are written mostly from a philosophical, literary, communication science, sociological or historical perspective. The publications reflect the current state of research on Nietzsche's philosophy, on his sources, and on the influence of his writings. The volumes are peer-reviewed.

Lange and Nietzsche (Monographien und Texte zur Nietzsche-Forschung, 10)

de Gruyter

Berkeley's analysis of perception (Studies in Philosophy, 21)

Walter de Gruyter

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