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Nietzsche's animal philosophy : culture, politics, and the animality of the human being /
"This book explores the significance of human animality in the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche and provides a systematic treatment of the animal theme in Nietzsche's corpus as a whole. The book argues that the animal is neither a random theme nor a metaphorical device in Nietzsche's...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2009.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
| Colección: | Perspectives in continental philosophy.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "This book explores the significance of human animality in the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche and provides a systematic treatment of the animal theme in Nietzsche's corpus as a whole. The book argues that the animal is neither a random theme nor a metaphorical device in Nietzsche's thought. Instead, it stands at the center of his renewal of the practice and meaning of philosophy itself. The book provides an original contribution to on-going debates on the essence of humanism and its future. At the center of this new interpretation stands Nietzsche's thesis that animal life and its potential for truth, history, and morality depends on a continuous antagonism between forgetfulness (animality) and memory (humanity). This relationship accounts for the emergence of humanity out of animality as a function of the antagonism between civilization and culture. By taking the antagonism of culture and civilization to be fundamental for Nietzsche's conception of humanity and its becoming, this book gives a new entry point into the political significance of Nietzsche's thought. The opposition between civilization and culture allows for the possibility that politics is more than a set of civilizational techniques that seek to manipulate, dominate, and exclude the animality of the human animal. By seeing the deep-seated connections of politics with culture, Nietzsche orients politics beyond the domination over life and, instead, offers the animality of the human being a positive, creative role in the organization of life. This book presents Nietzsche as the thinker of an emancipatory and affirmative biopolitics."--Publisher's abstract. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiv, 244 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-227) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780823235469 0823235467 0823230295 9780823230297 9780823247042 082324704X 1282698982 9781282698987 9780823238002 0823238008 |