Making space for degenerate thinking: revaluing architecture with Friedrich Nietzsche

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Simon Weir ◽  
Glen Hill
Keyword(s):  
Friedrich Nietzsche ◽  
Will To Power ◽  
Lived Space ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Will

Scholarly analysis of the writings on architecture of philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) has largely focused on passages in Twilight of the Idols where he claims that ‘Architecture is a kind of eloquence of power in forms – now persuading, even flattering, now only commanding.’1 Yet, considering Nietzsche’s theory of the will-to-power – that an innate drive towards power, might, and self-overcoming is the dominant force of existence – architecture gets interpreted in this passage as he would likely have interpreted sculpture. Any recognition of the social, political, physical, and psychological accommodations of architecture are absent. However, in a passage in Joyful Wisdom entitled ‘Architecture for the Perceptive’, Nietzsche wrote of architecture as a carefully crafted space to inhabit. This discussion of architecture as a lived space has received considerably less attention.

scholarly journals GALIA, ISTORIJA IR GENEALOGIJA: FRIEDRICHAS NIETZSCHE IR MICHELIS FOUCAULT

Problemos ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 75 ◽  
pp. 73-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrius Bielskis
Keyword(s):  
Friedrich Nietzsche ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Philosophy Of History ◽  
Human History ◽  
Will To Power ◽  
Types Of Knowledge ◽  
The Will

Straipsnyje aptariamos Friedricho Nietzsche’s ir Michelio Foucault genealogijos sampratos. Teigiama, kad genealogija gilinasi į istoriją ne dėl įvykių, mūšių ir karų aprašymo, bet dėl diskursyvių režimų ir praktikų, kurios formuoja mūsų tapatybę. Glaudus pažinimo/tiesos bei galios saitas yra esminis tiek Nietzsche’s, tiek Foucault genealogijai. Foucault dispositive (suprantamumo režimas) yra viena iš esminių sąvokų tiek istoriškumo sampratai, tiek studijuojant pačią istoriją. Nyčiška valios galiai idėja transformuojama į pažinimo tipais grindžiamą ir besiremiančią galios santykių strategijų idėją. Daroma išvada, jog Foucault genealogija redukuoja prasmę į galios santykius. Taip pat teigiama, kad Foucault sampratoje istorija yra pažini ne dėl jos vidinio prasmingumo, bet dėl to, jog žinios ir diskursyvios praktikos, būdamos esminės istorijos vyksmo procesui, yra suvokiamos kaip taktikos ir strategijos.Pagrindiniai žodžiai: genealogija, istorijos filosofija, galia, diskursas.Power, History and Genealogy: Friedrich Nietzsche and Michel FoucaultAndrius Bielskis SummaryThe essay explores Friedrich Nietzsche’s and Michel Foucault’s accounts of genealogy. It argues that genealogy sees human history not in terms of events, battles and wars (i.e. through empirical facts), but in terms of discursive regimes and practices which form our subjectivity. The link between knowledge/truth and power plays crucial role in both Nietzsche’s and Foucault’s accounts of genealogy. Foucault’s notion of dispositive (the regime of intelligibility) serves as a key concept in his approach to history. The Nietzschean idea of the will to power is transformed into the idea of strategies of relations of forces supporting and supported by types of knowledge. The essay concludes that Foucault’s genealogy reduces meaning to power relations. It argues that in Foucault’s thought human history is intelligible not because of its inner meaning, but because knowledge and discourses, which play a key role in human history, are understood in terms of tactics and strategies.Keywords: genealogy, philosophy of history, power, discourse.

Life as Will (Nietzsche)

Forms of Life ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 227-258
Author(s):  
Andreas Gailus
Keyword(s):  
Friedrich Nietzsche ◽  
Will To Power ◽  
The Will ◽  
And Task

This chapter discusses Friedrich Nietzsche and how he views like as will. In contrast to the Idealist notion of the human imposition of value upon life, Nietzsche makes life not only the highest value but understands it as a process of valuation. Moreover, since valuation is conceived as the assertion of self against the assertion of countless other selves, Nietzsche's vitalism is intrinsically antagonistic and heterogeneous. For Nietzsche, life is a struggle down to the smallest cell, and formation (Bildung) is also deformation and overcoming, including the overcoming of previous forms of self. Under the rubric of the will-to-power, Nietzsche thus thinks of life as a force that both produces and exceeds all conceptual distinctions and oppositions; life becomes a problem and task that is at once biological and political, aesthetic and ethical, theoretical and practical.

scholarly journals The Quest for Success and Power in F. Scott Fitzgerald's Novel The Beautiful and Damned

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 181
Author(s):  
Ala Eddin Sadeq
Keyword(s):  
Friedrich Nietzsche ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
American Dream ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Will To Power ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Will

This study aims at investigating the concepts of success and power, as depicted by F. Scott Fitzgerald in The Beautiful and Damned (2009). Cultural change motivates individuals to work harder to achieve success, which in turn makes them influential. The study reveals that the concepts of success and power are controversial, as their means vary from one theorist to another.  Waldo Emerson, for example, believes that success is connected to happiness.  He, therefore, lists down features that characterize successful people. To succeed, one must learn to follow their desires, an argument that is expounded by the ideology of the American Dream.  Friedrich Nietzsche, however, explains that individuals are motivated to lead due to the fact that power brings about the superman. To achieve the status of the superman, Nietzsche believes that individuals develop the will to power and are able to influence others (Nietzsche, 1968). Fitzgerald, on the other hand, makes it clear that power leads to liberty. The novel provides a deep analysis of the quest for power and success. The main characters are Gloria, Joseph, and Anthony who helps to demonstrate the quest for success and power. Richard Caramel is also a character whose role explains the pursuit of true happiness. He is depicted as powerful because he influences the society through his writings. He has a strong determination to be a writer, which motivates him to work hard and to seek further success. 

scholarly journals Platão e Nietzsche, um conflito entre acrasia e vontade de poder

Problemata ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 187-199
Author(s):  
Francisco de Assis Silva Neto
Keyword(s):  
Friedrich Nietzsche ◽  
Research Proposal ◽  
Common Root ◽  
Will To Power ◽  
Philosophical Position ◽  
Second Moment ◽  
Human Conduct ◽  
The Will

This research proposal deals with a possible relationship between the Platonic concept of acrasia and the nietzschean concept of will to power. What is specific to the constitution of both terms, has a common root, does not have a conduct of different use, only a philosophical position on the implementation of such an approach, that is, a matter of perspective. A research will be divided into different moments, in order to validate a conjecture proposal. In the first instance, export Plato's panoramic mode and understanding of the problem of acrasia as an anomaly that would lead to an excess and therefore harmful conduct for individuals and society. In a second moment, expose Nietzsche's understanding of the will to power, as constituted by himself and with life value, seeking to show a possible choice between the two terms, correlating them with a human conduct and proposing a similarity between the two. thoughts of Plato and Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900).

scholarly journals The philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche: Nikolai Berdyaev’s reception and interpretation

2021 ◽  
pp. 166-178
Author(s):  
Andrey V. Shumskoy ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Friedrich Nietzsche ◽  
Russian Philosophy ◽  
Religious Philosophy ◽  
The West ◽  
Will To Power ◽  
Christian Anthropology ◽  
The World ◽  
German Philosopher ◽  
The Will ◽  
The One

The article deals with the problem of Nikolai Berdyaev’s reception and interpretation of the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche. We attempt to reconstruct Berdyaev’s attitude to the creative heritage of the great German philosopher. The phenomenon of Nietzsche was mainly perceived by the Russian philosophy of the early 20th century in a religious context. For Berdyaev himself, the personality of Nietzsche became one of the starting points for comprehending the existential dialectic of human destiny in the world historical process. In Nietzsche’s works, Berdyaev was first of all captivated by the eschatological theme the philosopher addressed, his striving for the end and the limit. Berdyaev called Nietzsche the greatest phenomenon of modern history, dialectically completing the humanistic anthropology of the West. The Russian philosopher viewed Nietzsche as the forerunner of a new religious anthropology, a religious prophet of the West, making a return to the old European humanism no longer possible. Berdyaev was convinced of the need to overcome and internalize the spiritual experience of Nietzsche. The latter opens up the prospect of transition to a new anthropological era, in which human existence must be justified by creativity. Berdyaev viewed creativity as a new religious revelation of Christianity, not manifested in patristic tradition and historical Christianity. In creative acts, man overcomes objectification as a fallen state of the world. The article examines the key ideas of Nietzsche’s philosophy through the prism of religious existentialism and personalism of Berdyaev. Berdyaev’s attitude to Nietzsche was ambivalent: on the one hand, he highly appreciated how radically the German philosopher formulated the problem of a person’s creativity; on the other hand, he viewed the anti-Christian concept of the superman, leading to human godhood, as absolutely unacceptable for Russian religious philosophy and Christianity. Berdyaev assessed the new revelation of Nietzsche about the superman and the will to power as false and demonic, radically contradicting the foundations of Christian anthropology about man and the religious ethics of creativity.

scholarly journals a arte e o afeto na inclusão escolar: potência e o pensamento não representativo

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (30) ◽  
pp. 517-534 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mateus Freitas Barreiro ◽  
Alonso Bezerra Carvalho ◽  
Marta Regina Furlan
Keyword(s):  
Aesthetic Experience ◽  
Cultural Background ◽  
Inclusive Process ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
Deleuze And Guattari ◽  
Will To Power ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Will ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Aesthetic

This article has as main objective to investigate art and the affection as options of will to power in the school inclusive process, having as theoretical reference, mainly, the thoughts of Deleuze and Guattari. The discussion begins in the conceptual formation of the notion affect (affection) and its other conceptual components that involve the will to power and the no representative thought. It is now necessary to include a new version of the register of a representative logic that encodes the subject's experience and reduces his/her affective power. In this perspective, the art as aesthetic experience is a way of amplifying power, once they are affected, they are empowered to a differentiated perspective in the means of conceiving and living life. The methodology is theoretical, with reflections on the affections in their relation with the deficient still to come? in the school, in its articulation with art and the aesthetic experience, and it involves the recognition of the social, psychological inequalities, among others. In this sense, art extends the affections, not only in the subjects under consideration, which possess a cultural background, but the appreciation depends on a sensible perception more than on a representative thinking.

Nietzsche, Friedrich (1844–1900)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vincent P. Pecora ◽  
Derek La Shot
Keyword(s):  
Friedrich Nietzsche ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
Greek Tragedy ◽  
Will To Power ◽  
The World ◽  
Birth Of Tragedy ◽  
The Will ◽  
Genealogy Of Morals

Friedrich Nietzsche, the son of a Lutheran minister, was a German philologist, philosopher, and iconoclast. He is best known for his controversial but powerful reevaluation of traditional Western morality, epistemology, and theology. His early academic career was devoted to philology, and he secured a professorship at Basel University at the age of twenty-four despite having failed to obtain his doctorate at Leipzig. He obtained most of his philosophical training outside of his speciality. His principle resources were Arthur Schopenhauer’s The World as Will and Representation, followed by Richard Wagner’s revolutionary music. Although he admired Schopenhauer’s stark premise that existence was a chaotic affair guided by a will to life, Nietzsche later replaced Schopenhauer’s embrace of ascetic "will-less-ness" as the only response to suffering with the "will to power": the idea that man "will rather will nothingness than not will" (Genealogy of Morals, III: sec. 1; emphasis in the original). His first book was The Birth of Tragedy out of the Spirit of Music (1872; title altered in subsequent editions), which explained Greek tragedy by revealing the wrestling of two intellectual energies within it.

Nietzsche’s Entomology: Insect Sociality and the Concept of the Will

2021 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 275-299
Author(s):  
Edgar Landgraf
Keyword(s):  
Emergent Properties ◽  
Will To Power ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
Wilhelm Wundt ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Will ◽  
Insect Sociality ◽  
Entomological Research

Abstract The article traces Nietzsche’s references to insects in his published and unpublished writings against the backdrop of his study of the entomological research of his time (esp. through his reading of Alfred Espinas’s Die thierischen Gesellschaften). The first part of the article explores how Nietzsche’s entomology allows us to add a posthumanist perspective to the more familiar poststructuralist readings of Nietzsche, as the entomological research he consulted offered him a model for understanding how rudimentary processes can lead to the formation of structures and higher organizations with emergent properties. The second part of the article revisits Nietzsche’s conceptions of the will and the will to power against the backdrop of his references to insect sociality and the influence of Wilhelm Wundt. It shows that Nietzsche’s deconstruction of the will as an umbrella concept and his will to power are attempts to model the emergence of complex edifices from simple operations under which physical, psychological, and social phenomena must be thought to arise. The article concludes with a reflection of the social and political relevance of what Nietzsche identifies as modernity’s “disgregation of the will.”

Nietzsche’s Entomology: Insect Sociality and the Concept of the Will

2021 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 275-299
Author(s):  
Edgar Landgraf
Keyword(s):  
Emergent Properties ◽  
Will To Power ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
Wilhelm Wundt ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Will ◽  
Insect Sociality ◽  
Entomological Research

Abstract The article traces Nietzsche’s references to insects in his published and unpublished writings against the backdrop of his study of the entomological research of his time (esp. through his reading of Alfred Espinas’s Die thierischen Gesellschaften). The first part of the article explores how Nietzsche’s entomology allows us to add a posthumanist perspective to the more familiar poststructuralist readings of Nietzsche, as the entomological research he consulted offered him a model for understanding how rudimentary processes can lead to the formation of structures and higher organizations with emergent properties. The second part of the article revisits Nietzsche’s conceptions of the will and the will to power against the backdrop of his references to insect sociality and the influence of Wilhelm Wundt. It shows that Nietzsche’s deconstruction of the will as an umbrella concept and his will to power are attempts to model the emergence of complex edifices from simple operations under which physical, psychological, and social phenomena must be thought to arise. The article concludes with a reflection of the social and political relevance of what Nietzsche identifies as modernity’s “disgregation of the will.”

The Proto-Ecophilosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche

1995 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-66
Author(s):  
John G. McGraw ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Friedrich Nietzsche ◽  
Will To Power ◽  
Applied Ecology ◽  
The Will ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

This paper sketches the relationship of Nietzsche's "Lebensphilosophie," panpsychism, animism, proto-existentialism and naturalism to contemporary ecologism/ecology. It considers his assaults on the metaphysical, epistemological and ethical foundations of anti-ecophilosophy. It connects some of his central doctrines, including self-overcoming, the will to power, "amor fati" and "fierism" (the metaphysics of becoming) to his proto-ecophilosophy and explores three kinds of nihilism which are particularly hostile to it. Finally, it notes Nietzsche's applied ecology-concems, including conservationism, preservationism and pollution.

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