Nietzsche is among a handful of philosophers for whom music was a powerful force and an abiding influence. A pianist, improviser, and composer, he contemplated a career in music before abandoning it to pursue philology and philosophy. His stormy relationship with Richard Wagner – the man and his music – found ample expression in Nietzsche’s philosophical writing, from his first book, The Birth ...

Regardless of its seemingly abstract philosophical nature, historically the relation of mind and body has found a surprising variety of forms in the changing “mirror of machines” (Meyer-Drawe, 1996)—perhaps because the “invention” of abstract theorizing and knowledge coincided with the construction of tools and machines. Friedrich Nietzsche brought this articulation of knowledge and machines fa...

The notion of sublimation is essential to Nietzsche and Freud. However, Freud’s writings fail to provide a persuasive notion of sublimation. In particular, Freud’s writings are confused on the distinction between pathological symptoms and sublimation and on the relation between sublimation and repression. After rehearsing these problems in some detail, it is proposed that a return to Nietzsche ...

75 despair, as all certainties—even the putative postmodern certainty of exposing all certainties—become steadily bereft of intellectual or existential justification. By contrast, Vico, though a “genealogist of modernity” not unlike Nietzsche, kept one foot resolutely in the Catholic-Augustinian tradition. This tradition supplied him with the normative intellectual resources to offer qualified ...

judgement about friedrich nietzsche as a criticizer of modern culture and a new establisher in culture and thought of the new world, is a very difficult task. but criticizing of morality, philosophy and culture during the last ages is an effort that nietzsche has done it and in this way he notified the effects of corruption on human will and life. nietzsche in his new establishing in reaction t...

Neste trabalho, pretende-se tecer um paralelo entre o filme de curta metragem “Meu Amigo Nietzsche”, Fáuston da Silva, e as formas mediação informação usadas no para alcançar a apropriação dos conceitos obra Nietzsche “Assim falou Zaratustra”. O analisado foi gravado na Cidade Estrutural, periferia Brasília, conta história Lucas, menino que segundo sua educadora, apresenta déficit aprendizado e...

The title of this paper raises two questions, each of which I would like to address in turn. The first question is: What exactly is an immanent ethics (as opposed to an ethics that appeal to transcendence)? The second question is: What is the philosophical question of desire? My ultimate question concerns the link between these two issues: What relation does an immanent ethics have to the quest...

This essay analyzes the connection between Nietzsche’s philosophy and contemporary transhumanism, on the basis of his Apollonian-Dionysian dichotomy and how it articulated in lateRomantic European culture. Nietzsche’s personal insanity, and the morbidity of the Romantic Movement in general, can serve as a warning of what transhumanism might become if it overemphasizes individualism. Nietzsche’s...

On 13 November 1888, Nietzsche wrote to his close friend Franz Overbeck1 about Ecce Homo: ‘an absolutely important book, gives some psychological and even biographical details about me and my writings; people will at last see me. The tone of the work, one of gay detachment fraught with a sense of destiny, as is everything I write’ (1996: 324). Ecce Homo, an attempt at an autobiography, was conc...