En torno al superhombre

1998 ◽  
pp. 41-50
Author(s):  
Paulina Rivero Weber
Keyword(s):  
Will To Power ◽  
Birth Of Tragedy

This paper analyzes some of the different characterizations of the idea of the Overman, in relation to the evolution of Nietzsche’s idea of “Dionysus”, pointing to the concept of will to Power. The use that Nietzsche does of Dionysus in his first work, The Birth of Tragedy, shows how he conceives the Apollonian-Dionysian dichotomy as a unity, while in later texts, there is a fragmentation of that unity. Through these changes, we can see the different conceptions of individuality, community, and truth in Nietzsche’s work. Finally, this paper considers that behind these different conceptions lies Nietzsche’s appreciation of reason and truth.

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robin Holt ◽  
Daniel Hjorth
Keyword(s):  
Friedrich Nietzsche ◽  
Eternal Return ◽  
Will To Power ◽  
The World ◽  
Birth Of Tragedy ◽  
Last Man ◽  
The Last Man

In The Birth of Tragedy Out of the Spirit of Music (1872), Friedrich Nietzsche refined and intensified his thoughts on the profound problem of pessimism and the tragic. Nearly all of Nietzsche’s work can be read as an evocation and exemplification of Prometheus, a tragic figure in The Birth of Tragedy that breaches the world of humans and gods. This chapter examines the sense of tragedy in The Birth of Tragedy, along with genealogy, the concept of ressentiment, happiness of the last man, eternal return and will to power, creation and negation, and organization.

Nietzsche's New Grounding of The Metaphysical: Sensuousness and the Subversion of Plato and Platonism

2004 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 139-159 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marylou Sena
Keyword(s):  
Greek Tragedy ◽  
Will To Power ◽  
The Third ◽  
Birth Of Tragedy ◽  
The Will ◽  
Point Of Departure

This essay gives an extensive treatment of Heidegger's confrontation ( Auseinander-setzung ) with Nietzsche' thought. It argues that Heidegger's confrontation entails situating what Heidegger calls Nietzsche's "transformed" understanding of the sensuous outside the metaphysics of both Plato and Platonism. The essay establishes, by the end of the second section, that Heidegger's confrontation with Nietzsche's thought culminates with the insight that for Nietzsche sensuousness is metaphysical. The third section of the essay takes as its point of departure Heidegger's intimation at the conclusion of The Will to Power as Art , where he advances the inference that Nietzsche's new grounding of the metaphysical in sensuousness brings along with it "readiness for the gods." The essay offers explicit support for Heidegger's intimation through an analysis of three essential steps, outlined by Nietzsche in The Birth of Tragedy , in which sensuousness proves to be indicative of a way of access to the gods, the dual gods, Apollo and Dionysus, at the origin of Greek tragedy.

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.

The Sober Bacchae: Dance as Phenomenal Limitation in Nietzsche

2019 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-76
Author(s):  
Monique Lyle
Keyword(s):  
World View ◽  
The Body ◽  
Specific Function ◽  
Alain Badiou ◽  
Classical Greece ◽  
Birth Of Tragedy

This essay seeks to dispel entrenched critical opinion regarding dance across Nietzsche's writings as representative of Dionysian intoxication alone. Taking as its prompt the riposte of Alain Badiou, ‘Nietzsche is miles away from any doctrine of dance as a primitive ecstasy’ and ‘dance is in no way the liberated bodily impulse, the wild energy of the body’, the essay uncovers the ties between dance and Apollo in the Nietzschean theory of art while qualifying dance's relation to Dionysus. Primarily through an analysis of The Dionysiac World View and The Birth of Tragedy, the essay seeks to illuminate enigmatic statements about dance in Nietzsche (‘in dance the greatest strength is only potential, although it is betrayed by the suppleness of movement’ and ‘dance is the preservation of orderly measure’). It does this through an elucidation of the specific function of dance in Nietzsche's interpretation of classical Greece; via an assessment of the difficulties associated with the Nietzschean understanding of the bacchanal; and lastly through an analysis of Nietzsche's characterization of dance as a symbol. The essay culminates in a discussion of dance's ties to Nietzschean life affirmation; here the themes of physico-phenomenal existence, joy and illusion in Nietzsche are surveyed.

Nietzsche: The Superman, the Will to Power and the Eternal Return

1982 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 280-295
Author(s):  
Harry Neumann
Keyword(s):  
Eternal Return ◽  
Will To Power ◽  
The Will

Autonomy

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aaron Ridley
Keyword(s):  
Philosophical Tradition ◽  
Will To Power

This chapter is devoted to the later Nietzsche’s conception of autonomy. The claim defended here is that Nietzsche—in common with the modern philosophical tradition more generally—regards freedom and autonomy as comprising an indissoluble package, and so that his conception of autonomy inherits the expressivism of his conception of freedom. It is argued that this view allows us to make better or fuller sense of Nietzsche’s well-known remarks about the ‘sovereign individual’ in the second essay of the Genealogy; that it makes best sense when seen in the context of Nietzsche’s doctrine of ‘will to power’, to the most plausible interpretation of which it lends support; and that, properly unpacked, it allows us to understand why Nietzsche so often seems to regards artistic agency as exemplary of agency as such. If these arguments are convincing, they add weight to the claim that Nietzsche should be read as an expressivist.

Nietzsche’s Doctrine of the Will to Power

2021 ◽  
pp. 155-200
Author(s):  
Wolfgang Müller-Lauter
Keyword(s):  
Will To Power ◽  
The Will

Losev's Development of Themes From Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy

2004 ◽  
Vol 56 (2/3) ◽  
pp. 187-209 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal
Keyword(s):  
Birth Of Tragedy
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