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Ridley, Aaron

 
9780801485534: Nietzsche's Conscience: Six Character Studies from the Genealogy
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ISBN 10: 0801485533 ISBN 13: 9780801485534
Casa editrice: Cornell Univ Pr, 1998

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Aaron Ridley explores Nietzsche's mature ethical thought as expressed in his masterpiece On the Genealogy of Morals. Taking seriously the use that Nietzsche makes of human types, Ridley arranges his book thematically around the six characters who loom largest in that work—the slave, the priest, the philosopher, the artist, the scientist, and the noble. By elucidating what the Genealogy says about these figures, he achieves a persuasive new assessment of Nietzsche's ethics.

Ridley's intellectually supple interpretation reveals Nietzsche's ethical position to be deeper and more interesting than is often supposed: the relation, for instance, between Nietzsche's ideal of the noble and the ascetic or priestly conscience does not emerge as a stark opposition but as a rich interplay between the tensions inherent in each. Equally, he shows that certain under-appreciated confusions in Nietzsche's thought reveal much about the positive aspects of the philosopher's moral vision.

The only book devoted entirely to the Genealogy, Nietzsche's Conscience offers a sympathetic but tough-minded critical reading of the philosopher's most important work. Delivered in clear and vigorous language and employing a broadly analytical approach, Ridley's commentary makes Nietzsche's reflections on morality more accessible than they have been hitherto.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Aaron Ridley is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Associate Director of the Centre for Post-Analytic Philosophy at the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom. His other books include Music, Value and the Passions, also from Cornell.

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Editore
Cornell Univ Pr
Data di pubblicazione
1998
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0801485533
ISBN 13 
9780801485534
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Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
224
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
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Mare Nostrum Group B.V.
gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk

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ISBN 10:  0801435579 ISBN 13:  9780801435577
Casa editrice: Cornell Univ Pr, 1998
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