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Nietzsche`s New Darwinism

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford Oxford University Press 2004Description: 288pISBN:
  • 9780195380293
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • N81.1NF(N39.1DC R393
Partial contents:
Biology 11 1. Nietzsche`s Arguments against Darwin 16 2. Problems in the Main Attack 20 3. Kinds of Teleology 26 4. Drives as Selected 35 5. Is Will to Power Selected? 45 a. The Dominant View: Will to Power as Basic Explainer 46 b. The Recessive View: Will to Power Explained by Selection 52 Summary 64 2: Metaethics 67 1. What Values Are 70 2. Animal Values, by Natural Selection 78 3. Human Values, by Social Selection 81 a. Structure of Social Selection: Herd Instinct 85 b. First Phase of Social Selection: The Ethic of Custom 88 c. Second Phase of Social Selection: Morality 92 4. Superhuman Values, by Self Selection (Freedom) 95 a. Insight 97 b. Incorporating Insight 101 Nietzsche`s New Darwinism 5. Revaluing Values 104 a. From Facts to Values? 108 b. Justifying Values 115 c. Valuing`s How 125 3: Ethics-Politics 133 1. Links with Social Danvinism 137 2. Roots of Pity and Altruism in Natural Selection? 146 3. Formation by Social Selection 153 a. Spencer: Selection Progresses to Sympathy and Altruism 153 b. Nietzsche`s Critical Genealogy for Pity and Altruism 156 4. Lessons from this Genealogy: Whether/How We Progress 161 a. No Lesson? 163 b. Lesson: Restore Nature`s Design? 167 c. Lesson: Redesign for Freedom 169 5. Self Selection`s Ethics: Revaluing Pity and Altruism 171 a. Freeing to Select Social Virtues 173 b. Redesigning Social Virtues 175 6. Self Selection`s Politics: Revaluing Equality and Civilizing 186 a. Breeding 190 b. Rank Order 200 c. Assessing the Politics 216 Summary 217 4: Aesthetics 219 1. Art versus Truth 221 2. Aesthetic Drives 227 a. Forms of Rausch 229 b. Roots in Sexuality 236 3. Aesthetic Practices 243 4. The New Aesthetics 249 a. Aesthesis as Recuperative Play 252 b. Aesthesis as Diagnostic "Scent" 256 c. Aesthesis as Making New Beauty 260
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Biology 11 1. Nietzsche`s Arguments against Darwin 16 2. Problems in the Main Attack 20 3. Kinds of Teleology 26 4. Drives as Selected 35 5. Is Will to Power Selected? 45 a. The Dominant View: Will to Power as Basic Explainer 46 b. The Recessive View: Will to Power Explained by Selection 52 Summary 64 2: Metaethics 67 1. What Values Are 70 2. Animal Values, by Natural Selection 78 3. Human Values, by Social Selection 81 a. Structure of Social Selection: Herd Instinct 85 b. First Phase of Social Selection: The Ethic of Custom 88 c. Second Phase of Social Selection: Morality 92 4. Superhuman Values, by Self Selection (Freedom) 95 a. Insight 97 b. Incorporating Insight 101 Nietzsche`s New Darwinism 5. Revaluing Values 104 a. From Facts to Values? 108 b. Justifying Values 115 c. Valuing`s How 125 3: Ethics-Politics 133 1. Links with Social Danvinism 137 2. Roots of Pity and Altruism in Natural Selection? 146 3. Formation by Social Selection 153 a. Spencer: Selection Progresses to Sympathy and Altruism 153 b. Nietzsche`s Critical Genealogy for Pity and Altruism 156 4. Lessons from this Genealogy: Whether/How We Progress 161 a. No Lesson? 163 b. Lesson: Restore Nature`s Design? 167 c. Lesson: Redesign for Freedom 169 5. Self Selection`s Ethics: Revaluing Pity and Altruism 171 a. Freeing to Select Social Virtues 173 b. Redesigning Social Virtues 175 6. Self Selection`s Politics: Revaluing Equality and Civilizing 186 a. Breeding 190 b. Rank Order 200 c. Assessing the Politics 216 Summary 217 4: Aesthetics 219 1. Art versus Truth 221 2. Aesthetic Drives 227 a. Forms of Rausch 229 b. Roots in Sexuality 236 3. Aesthetic Practices 243 4. The New Aesthetics 249 a. Aesthesis as Recuperative Play 252 b. Aesthesis as Diagnostic "Scent" 256 c. Aesthesis as Making New Beauty 260

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