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"In the Sovereignty of Joy: Nietzsche's Vision of Grand Politics, Alex McIntyre suggests that a sense of tragic joy is the legislating experience at the heart of Nietzsche's philosophy. A Dionysian exuberance animates all of Nietzsche's central ideas - will to power, self-mastery...
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University of Toronto Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Toronto ; Buffalo : |
| Publication Dates: | [2012] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Toronto studies in philosophy
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"In the Sovereignty of Joy: Nietzsche's Vision of Grand Politics, Alex McIntyre suggests that a sense of tragic joy is the legislating experience at the heart of Nietzsche's philosophy. A Dionysian exuberance animates all of Nietzsche's central ideas - will to power, self-mastery, the Overman, amor fati, eternal return - and especially his 'grand politics, ' which McIntyre argues is the political elaboration of the sovereignty of joy." "This study interprets Nietzsche's conception of tragic joy as the affirmation of the fullness of becoming at every moment, an affirmation which overcomes rev |
| Carrier Form: | xi, 187 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-178) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781442615014 (paperback: acid-free paper) : 9780802041104 (bound) 0802041108 (acid-free paper) |
| Index Number: | JC233 |
| CLC: |
B842.6 B516.47 |
| Call Number: | B516.47/M152 |
| Contents: |
Joy, Sovereignty, and Atopia -- Joy in the Actual -- The Seasons of a People: Community and Individually in the Cycle of Natural Morality -- Hierarchy and the Overman -- Nietzsche Contra Rousseau -- Communion in Joy: Will to Power and Eternal Return in Grand Politics -- The Poetry of the Future. |