Screen LibraryValue in modernity : the philosophy of existential modernism in Nietzsche, Scheler, Sartre, Musil /
"This book identifies a historical paradigm in ethics that has been largely ignored in more recent philosophy. I call this paradigm existential modernism and discuss its central claims through detailed examination of the thought of four of its main exponents: Friedrich Nietzsche, Max Scheler, J...
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Oxford University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Oxford : |
| Publication Dates: | 2022. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First edition. |
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"This book identifies a historical paradigm in ethics that has been largely ignored in more recent philosophy. I call this paradigm existential modernism and discuss its central claims through detailed examination of the thought of four of its main exponents: Friedrich Nietzsche, Max Scheler, Jean-Paul Sartre and Robert Musil. In the case of Nietzsche and Sartre, I offer novel interpretations, reconstructing lines of thought in their work that have usually been neglected. Scheler's subtle phenomenological version of affective value intuitionism is a crucial influence on Sartre's existentialism, but has so far received virtually no reception in an anglophone context at all. In the case of Musil, while his thought on emotions and moods in The Man without Qualities has begun to receive some philosophical recognition in recent years, the significance of the philosophical core of this seminal work has so far also not been fully appreciated. In my interpretation, what we find in the existential modernists is an approach in ethical philosophy that combines a qualified form of affective value intuitionism and a kind of ethical perfectionism. I reconstruct a version of this approach that, I argue, has much to recommend it"-- "Value in Modernity examines a historical paradigm in ethics that has hitherto not been identified as such: existential modernism. Peter Poellner discusses the central claims of this paradigm through detailed examination of the thought of four of its main exponents: Friedrich Nietzsche, Max Scheler, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Robert Musil. In the case of Nietzsche and Sartre, Poellner offers novel interpretations, reconstructing lines of thought in their work that have usually been neglected. He also offers a new assessment of Scheler's subtle phenomenological version of affective value intuitionism, which is a crucial influence on Sartre's existentialism but has so far enjoyed virtually no reception in an anglophone context. Musil's philosophical novel The Man without Qualities is interpreted as contributing a highly original version of ethical perfectionism to the existential modernist paradigm. While Musil's thought on emotions and moods has begun to receive philosophical recognition in recent years, the significance of the philosophical core of his seminal work has so far not been fully appreciated. In Poellner's interpretation, what we find in the existential modernists is an approach in ethical philosophy that combines a qualified form of affective value intuitionism and a kind of ethical perfectionism. This book reconstructs and defends a version of this approach that integrates elements drawn from each of these thinkers, supplemented by an original elaboration of ideas only implicit in some of them. -- |
| Carrier Form: | viii, 372 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [359]-368) and index. |
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9780192849731 0192849735 |
| Index Number: | BJ1012 |
| CLC: | B086 |
| Call Number: | B086/P744 |
| Contents: | 1. How to redeem nature: Early Nietzsche on overcoming the 'Tyranny of the Real' -- 2. Later Nietzsche: Value, affect, and objectivity -- 3. Nietzsche's evaluative practice: Ethics and aesthetics -- 4. The Scheler-Sartre view of emotion and value: Defending qualified affective perceptualism -- 5. Indistinctness in value experience -- 6. Distorted value experience and intentional self-deception -- 7. Freedom, ethics, and absolute value: Early Sartre's two philosophies -- 8. Modernity, cultural discontent, and the experience of wholeness: Robert Musil's The Man without Qualities. |