Nietzsche and Epicurus

Vinod Acharya, Ryan J. Johnson (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

264 Seiten

2021
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-27916-2 (ISBN)

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This volume explores Nietzsche’s decisive encounter with the ancient philosopher, Epicurus. The collected essays examine many previously unexplored and underappreciated convergences, and investigate how essential Epicurus was to Nietzsche’s philosophical project through two interrelated overarching themes: nature and ethics.

Uncovering the nature of Nietzsche’s reception of, relation to, and movement beyond Epicurus, contributors provide insights into the relationship between suffering, health and philosophy in both thinkers; Nietzsche’s stylistic analysis of Epicurus; the ethics of self-cultivation in Nietzsche's Epicureanism; practices of eating and thinking in Nietzsche and Epicurus; the temporality of Epicurean pleasure; the practice of the gay science, and Epicureanism and politics. The essays also provide creative comparisons with the Stoics, Hobbes, Mill, Guyau, Buddhism, and more.

Nietzsche and Epicurus offers original and illuminating perspectives on Nietzsche’s relation to the Hellenistic thinker, in whom Nietzsche saw the embodiment of the practice of philosophy as an art of existing.

Ryan Johnson is assistant professor of philosophy, Elon University, USA. He is the author of The Deleuze-Lucretius Encounter (2018) and Contemporary Encounters with Ancient Metaphysics (2018). Vinod Acharya is Senior Instructor in Philosophy, Seattle University, USA. He is author of Nietzsche's Meta- Existentialism (2013).

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Introduction Vinod Acharya and Ryan Johnson

1. Jill Marsden (Bolton Institute), “‘Wisdom that walks in bodily form’: Nietzsche’s travels with Epicurus”.
2. Willow Verkerk (Kingston), “Nietzsche’s Joyful Friendship: Epicurean Elements in the Middle Works”.
3. Matthew Dennis (Warwick, Monash), “Epicurean Self-Cultivation in Nietzsche’s Early Works”.
4. Keith Ansell-Pearson (Warwick), “Nietzsche and Kant on Epicurus and Self-Cultivation”.
5. Carlotta Santini (Technical University Berlin), “Literary Prose and Philosophical Style: Nietzsche on the Case of Epicurus”.
6. Wilson H. Shearin (University of Miami), “Nietzsche’s Epicurean Epistemology”.
7. Ryan Johnson (Elon University, North Carolina), “The Gastrosophists: Eating and Thinking with Nietzsche and Epicurus”.
8. Babette Babich (Fordham University), “Nietzsche’s Epicurus: Music and the Art of Living”.
9. Patrick Wotling (Reims University, France), “Enjoying Riddles: Epicurus as a forerunner of the idea of gay science”.
10. Federico Testa (Warwick, Monash), “Nietzsche and Guyau on the Temporality of Epicurean Pleasure”.
11. Paul Bishop (Glasgow), ‘Nietzsche’s Response to Epicurus in the Light of Hobbes’s theory of the contract”.
12. Peter S. Groff (Bucknell University), “Great Politics and the Unnoticed Life: Nietzsche and Epicurus on the Boundaries of Cultivation”.
13. Daniel W. Conway (Texas A+M), “’The Psychological Type of the Redeemer’: Nietzsche’s Revaluation of Epicurus”.

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Erscheinungsdatum	22.10.2021
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	372 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie Altertum / Antike
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
ISBN-10	1-350-27916-1 / 1350279161
ISBN-13	978-1-350-27916-2 / 9781350279162
Zustand	Neuware