Contesting Nietzsche
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A brilliant exploration of a significant and understudied aspect of Nietzsche's philosophy. In this groundbreaking work, Christa Davis Acampora offers a profound rethinking of Friedrich Nietzsche's crucial notion of the agon. Analyzing an impressive array of primary and secondary sources and synthesizing decades of Nietzsche scholarship, she shows how the agon, or contest, organized core areas of Nietzsche's philosophy, providing a new appreciation of the subtleties of his notorious views about power. By focusing so intensely on this particular guiding interest, she offers an exciting, original vantage from which to view this iconic thinker: Contesting Nietzsche. Though existenceā€”viewed through the lens of Nietzsche's agonā€”is fraught with struggle, Acampora illuminates what Nietzsche recognized as the agon's generative benefits. It imbues the human experience with significance, meaning, and value. Analyzing Nietzsche's elaborations of agonismā€”his remarks on types of contests, qualities of contestants, and the conditions in which either may thrive or deteriorateā€”she demonstrates how much the agon shaped his philosophical projects and critical assessments of others. The agon led him from one set of concerns to the next, from aesthetics to metaphysics to ethics to psychology, via Homer, Socrates, Saint Paul, and Wagner. In showing how one obsession catalyzed so many diverse interests, Contesting Nietzsche sheds fundamentally new light on some of this philosopher's most difficult and paradoxical ideas.

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Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Year
2013
ISBN
9780226923918
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Philosophy History & Theory

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Copyright
  3. Title Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Epigraph
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Abbreviations and Citations of Nietzscheā€™s Works
  9. Introduction
  10. 1. Agon as Analytic, Diagnostic, and Antidote
  11. 2. Contesting Homer: The Poiesis of Value
  12. 3. Contesting Socrates: Nietzscheā€™s (Artful) Naturalism
  13. 4. Contesting Paul: Toward an Ethos of Agonism
  14. 5. Contesting Wagner: How One Becomes What One Is
  15. Afterword
  16. Notes
  17. Bibliography
  18. Index