Nietzsche's struggle against pessimism /
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA :
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2023.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Half-title
- Title page
- Imprints page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- A Note on Primary Sources
- Introduction
- Part I Nietzsche's Intellectual Context and Early Reception of Pessimism
- Chapter 1 The Varieties of Pessimism
- 1.1 Four Pessimistic Theses
- 1.2 The Defence: Arguments for Pessimism
- 1.3 The Explanation: Pessimism in Human History and Culture
- Chapter 2 Nietzsche's Initial Engagement with Pessimism
- 2.1 Another 'Apostle' of Schopenhauer?
- 2.2 Pessimism in The Birth of Tragedy
- 2.3 'Practical Pessimism': Suicide, Mercy Killing, and the Problem of Quietism
- 2.4 Art as an Antidote to Practical Pessimism
- 2.5 The Problem of Suffering's Meaning
- Part II The Beginnings of Change: Pessimism in Human, All Too Human
- Chapter 3 Nietzsche's New Naturalism
- 3.1 Beyond Optimism and Pessimism
- 3.2 Nietzsche's Initial Critique of Metaphysics
- 3.3 The Nature of Value Judgements: The Influence of Rée and Dühring
- 3.4 Frame of Reference Arguments against Pessimism
- Chapter 4 ''Bad News for Priests'': Scientific Progress and Suffering
- 4.1 The Origins of Metaphysics in Utility
- 4.2 On the Possibility of Science as the 'Axe' to the Root of Metaphysical Impulse
- 4.3 Nietzsche and the Social Question: Religion and Art Reconsidered
- Part III Nietzsche's Mature Rejection of the 'Pessimism of Sensibility'
- Chapter 5 A Psychological Critique
- 5.1 Pessimism as Weltschmerz: Nineteenth-Century Critiques
- 5.2 Nietzsche's Psychological Critique (I): Drives, Health, and Decadence
- 5.3 Nietzsche's Psychological Critique (II): Metaphysical Revenge
- 5.4 Christianity as the Pinnacle Manifestation of Pessimism
- 5.5 The Scope of Nietzsche's Psychological Critique and Its Strategic Implications
- Chapter 6 An Existential Critique
- 6.1 Pessimism and Nihilism
- 6.2 Eternal Recurrence as Response to the Pessimism Dispute
- 6.3 The (Re)Vindication of Art
- Chapter 7 A Perfectionist Critique
- 7.1 Pessimism and Hedonism
- 7.2 Greatness and the Poverty of Hedonism
- 7.3 The Philosophical Force of Nietzsche's Critique
- 7.4 A 'Pessimism of Strength': The Value of Suffering
- 7.5 Hedonism as Cause or Consequence?: Rescuing Schopenhauer
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index