Conflict and Contest in Nietzsche`s Philosophy
- London Bloomsbury Academic 2019
- 302p
Nietzsche on productive resistance / Herman Siemens -- Unity in strife : Nietzsche, Heraclitus and Schopenhauer / James Pearson -- Competition and democracy in Burckhardt and Nietzsche / Ritchie Robertson -- Competitive ethos and cultural dynamic : the principle of agonism in Jacob Burckhardt and Friedrich Nietzsche / Enrico Müller -- Amor agonis : conflict and love in Nietzsche and Homer / Lawrence J. Hatab -- Agonistic communities : love, war, and spheres of activity / Christa Acampora -- Nietzsche on the pleasure of the agon and enticements to war / Michael McNeal -- "Aidos", the warrior-pathos of Nietzsche's noble philosopher / Florian Häubi -- "You will the eternal recurrence of war and peace" (GS 285) / Isabelle Wienand -- Philosophy as terrorism : the notion of "attentat" / Guillaume Métayer -- Agon and language in Nietzsche's early writings on rhetoric / Nicolas Lema Habash -- Hyperbole and conflict in the slave revolt in morality / Frank Chouraqui -- Why war imagery? Loving life as an "experiment des Erkennenden" in Die fröhliche Wissenschaft / Jonathan Agins -- The aphorism as the site of conflict in Friedrich Nietzsche and Ludwig Hohl / Alexandra Sattler
"While Nietzsche's works and ideas are relevant across the many branches of philosophy, the themes of contest and conflict have been mostly overlooked. Conflict and Contest in Nietzsche's Philosophy redresses this situation, arguing for the importance of these issues throughout Nietzsche's work. The volume has three key lines of inquiry: Nietzsche's ontology of conflict; Nietzsche's conception of the agon; and Nietzsche's warrior-philosophy. Under these three umbrellas is a collection of insightful and provocative essays considering, among other topics, Nietzsche's understanding of resistance; his engagement with classical thinkers alongside his contemporaries, including Jacob Burckhardt; his views on language, metaphor and aphorism; and war, revolt and terror. In bringing together such topics, Conflict and Contest in Nietzsche's Philosophy seeks to correct the one-sided tendencies within the existing literature to read simply 'hard' and 'soft' analyses of conflict. Written by scholars across the Anglophone and the European traditions, within and beyond philosophy, this collection emphasises the entire problematic of conflict in Nietzsche's thought and its relation to his philosophical and literary practice"--