Nietzsche's Final Teaching
eBook - ePub

Nietzsche's Final Teaching

Michael Allen Gillespie

Share book
  1. English
  2. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Nietzsche's Final Teaching

Michael Allen Gillespie

Book details
Book preview
Table of contents
Citations

About This Book

In the seven and a half years before his collapse into madness, Nietzsche completed Thus Spoke Zarathustra, the best-selling and most widely read philosophical work of all time, as well as six additional works that are today considered required reading for Western intellectuals. Together, these works mark the final period of Nietzsche's thought, when he developed a new, more profound, and more systematic teaching rooted in the idea of the eternal recurrence, which he considered his deepest thought.Cutting against the grain of most current Nietzsche scholarship, Michael Allen Gillespie presents the thought of the late Nietzsche as Nietzsche himself intended, drawing not only on his published works but on the plans for the works he was unable to complete, which can be found throughout his notes and correspondence. Gillespie argues that the idea of the eternal recurrence transformed Nietzsche's thinking from 1881 to 1889. It provided both the basis for his rejection of traditional metaphysics and the grounding for the new logic, ontology, theology, and anthropology he intended to create with the aim of a fundamental transformation of European civilization, a "revaluation of all values." Nietzsche first broached the idea of the eternal recurrence in Thus Spoke Zarathustra, but its failure to gain attention or public acceptance led him to present the idea again through a series of works intended to culminate in a never-completed magnum opus. Nietzsche believed this idea would enable the redemption of humanity. At the same time, he recognized its terrifying, apocalyptic consequences, since it would also produce wars of unprecedented ferocity and destruction.Through his careful analysis, Gillespie reveals a more radical and more dangerous Nietzsche than the humanistic or democratic Nietzsche we commonly think of today, but also a Nietzsche who was deeply at odds with the Nietzsche imagined to be the forefather of Fascism. Gillespie's essays examine Nietzsche's final teaching—its components and its political, philosophical, and theological significance. The book concludes with a critical examination and a reflection on its meaning for us today.

Frequently asked questions

How do I cancel my subscription?
Simply head over to the account section in settings and click on “Cancel Subscription” - it’s as simple as that. After you cancel, your membership will stay active for the remainder of the time you’ve paid for. Learn more here.
Can/how do I download books?
At the moment all of our mobile-responsive ePub books are available to download via the app. Most of our PDFs are also available to download and we're working on making the final remaining ones downloadable now. Learn more here.
What is the difference between the pricing plans?
Both plans give you full access to the library and all of Perlego’s features. The only differences are the price and subscription period: With the annual plan you’ll save around 30% compared to 12 months on the monthly plan.
What is Perlego?
We are an online textbook subscription service, where you can get access to an entire online library for less than the price of a single book per month. With over 1 million books across 1000+ topics, we’ve got you covered! Learn more here.
Do you support text-to-speech?
Look out for the read-aloud symbol on your next book to see if you can listen to it. The read-aloud tool reads text aloud for you, highlighting the text as it is being read. You can pause it, speed it up and slow it down. Learn more here.
Is Nietzsche's Final Teaching an online PDF/ePUB?
Yes, you can access Nietzsche's Final Teaching by Michael Allen Gillespie in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Philosophy & Philosophy History & Theory. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Index

Achilles, 163–64
active nihilism, 34, 35, 36, 38, 148
Adler, Alfred, 4
Adorno, Theodor, 4
aei on (ever-being), 6, 125
Aeschylus, 44, 87, 96, 112, 176
Agamben, Giorgio, 232n5
Albrechtsberger, Johann Georg, 89–90
Alexandrian culture, 73
Altizer, Thomas, 189
amor fati, 20, 54, 101, 134, 135, 136, 147, 155, 173, 186, 194
Andreas-Salomé, Lou, 10, 204n7, 207n25, 233n7
Ansell-Pearson, Keith, 210n6
anthropology of nihilism: appearance of the lion and, 34, 212–13nn22–23; characterization of the will to power, 33; Christianity and, 35; consequences of the death of God for European humanity, 33–34, 212nn17–18; diagram of the span of human possibilities of being, 30, 33, 35; discussion of the three possibilities of being human, 31, 211nn9–10; the Great Noon’s position on the diagram of human possibilities, 33; implications if passion is the essence of the human being, 32; meaning of the last man, 29; Nietzsche’s belief in active nihilism, 34, 38; Nietzsche’s decision to abandon Zarathustra, 34, 213n25; stages of nihilism, 35, 36; tightrope analogy, 29; unexpected strengths of the liberal democratic worldview and, 38–39; vision of the Übermensch and, 29, 30, 31, 37–38, 46–47, 211n13; will to power’s connection to the psychology of the passions, 32–33
Antichrist, The, 10, 27, 34, 35, 98, 109, 114, 122–23, 184, 187, 225nn7–9
(anti-)metaphysics: basis of, 188; concept of the Dionysian and, 13, 72–73; concepts defining, 13, 207n24; distinguishing feature of, 19; doctrine of the eternal recurrence in the framework of classical metaphysics, 13–14, 17–18; notion of time and being in, 194; ontology of, 16, 18; psychology and, 77, 218n26; theological crisis created by scientific knowledge, 18
antinomy doctrine, 13, 73, 79, 93
anti-Semitism, 70, 114, 161, 188, 213n27
Apollo/Apollinian, 58, 73, 98, 104, 110, 116, 125, 129
architect, 104
architectonic, 110, 113, 115, 116, 118, 119
Arendt, Hannah, 4, 50
Ariadne, 56
aristocracy. See warrior aristocracy
Aristotle, 6, 18, 37, 97, 98, 111, 190
artist: Dionysian, 100, 117, 129–30, 198; metaphysics and, 44, 72; Nietzsche’s perception of himself as, 109; Nietzsche’s understanding of the use of art, 129–30; Plato’s view of, 170; tragic artist’s redemption of humanity, 101, 104, 105, 106, 223n37
artist-tyrant, 35, 119, 156, 159, 173, 176, 189, 213n28
asceticism, 77
“Attempt at a Self-Criticism” (Birth of Tragedy): assertion of Nie...

Table of contents