What are the roles of human exemplars, moral perfectionism and noble ethics in our 'self-overcoming'? What place does laughter have in Nietzche's vision of the future? What contribution can Nietzsche make to the issue of humanity's relation to the natural world in an age of ecological crisis? This wide-ranging collection of essays explores various aspects of Nietzsche's thought, centred around the general issue of futurity. Contributors include such leading Nietzsche scholars as Keith Ansell Pearson, Daniel W. Conway, Kathleen Higgins, Laurence Lampert and Graham Parkes.
Nietzsche's Futures
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Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; J.Lippitt PART I: NOBLES AND EXEMPLARS Nietzsche, Enlightenment and the Problem of Noble Ethics; D.Owen Annunciation and Rebirth: The Prefaces of 1886; D.W.L.Conway Stendhal's Ecstatic Embrace of History as the Antidote for Decadence; B.Domino PART II: LAUGHTER AND COMEDY Nietzsche's Best Jokes; L.Lampert Waves of Uncountable Laughter; K.M.L.Higgins Laughter: a Tool in Moral Perfectionism?; J.Lippitt PART III: ART, NATURE AND THE TRANSHUMAN A 'Pessimism of Strength': Nietzsche and the Tragic Sublime; J.Urpeth Creating the Future: Legislation and Aesthetics; G.Banham Staying Loyal to the Earth: Nietzsche as an Ecological Thinker; G.Parkes Loving the Poison: on the 'Meaning' of the Transhuman Condition; K.Ansell Pearson Index
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