Die (postmoderne) Destruktion des Subjekts und die Systemtheorie haben zu fatalen Konsequenzen fur den modernen Verantwortungsbegriff gefuhrt. Jede kriteriale Festlegung der Verantwortung wirkt als Entlastung der Eigenverantwortung: Man hat keine eigene Verantwortung mehr dafur, sie anzunehmen oder abzuweisen. Das Gefuhl der Verantwortung aber bleibt dennoch. Nietzsche und Levinas folgen der ursprunglichen Intuition der Verantwortung. Nietzsche will dazu einen souveranen Menschen, der sich der herrschenden Moral nicht beugt, wogegen man sich bei Levinas der Verantwortung gegenuber dem...

Im Fruhwerk Nietzsches kann das Phanomen Rhythmus als eine anthropologische Technik verstanden werden, asthetischen Strukturen unter den Bedingungen der Zeitlichkeit Dauer zu verschaffen. Wenn Nietzsche die Erscheinungsformen antiker und moderner Kultur veranschaulicht und kritisiert, so ist es der Leitfaden des Rhythmus, anhand dessen er ihre jeweilige kulturelle Kompetenz beurteilt, den Menschen als temporales Wesen im und gegen den Fluss der Zeit zu behaupten. Dabei zeigt sich, dass Nietzsche Antike und Gegenwart von ihren spezifischen Ausgangsbedingungen her grundlegend unterscheidet...

The notion of nihilism assumes a prominent place in Nietzsche s thinking during the 1880s. Yet he had already condemned nihilistic Western culture in The Birth of Tragedy; in order to overcome nihilism, life must be aesthetically vindicated. The author analyzes the cultural and anthropological foundations of Nietzsche s concept of nihilism. The book concludes with a discussion of the contemporary crisis of meaning.

Nietzsche's critical engagement with philosophical methodology has considerable potential to contribute to solving problems in the contemporary philosophy of mind and science. The chapters in this book explain the nature of Nietzsche's experimentalism and show how it allows us to clarify the relationship between philosophy and scientific method. The author demonstrates how Nietzsche can help us to respond in fresh ways to a selection of problems in contemporary philosophy of science, including the realism-antirealism debate, and the status of thought experiments. In so doing, Nietzsche's...

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) supported the unification of Europe and reflected on this like few other philosophers before or after him. Many ofhis works are concerned with the present state and future of European culture and humanity. Resisting the nationalist nonsense and politics of dissolution of his day, he advocated the birth of good Europeans, i.e. supra-national individuals and the amalgamation of nations.
Nietzsche, Wagner, Europe analyzes the development of Friedrich Nietzsche s ideal of European culture based on his musical aesthetics. It does so against the...

The aphoristic form causes difficulty, Nietzsche lamented in 1887, for today this form is not taken seriously enough. Over a century later, Nietzsche s Aphoristic Challenge offers the first book-length study in English devoted explicitly to Nietzsche s aphoristic writings, including Human, All Too Human and The Gay Science. The study argues that the function of the aphorism for Nietzsche changes, but can best be understood in terms of excess.

The author presents a new existential interpretation of Nietzsche. He argues that Nietzsche s approach, especially in his mature works, is to make the typical existential position foundational, and then to develop to the fullest the implications of this position. This meta-existential approach necessarily yields an ambiguous and open-ended critique of metaphysics. The task of simply overcoming metaphysics is shown to be inapplicable to Nietzsche.