Bücher der Reihe Monographien und Texte zur Nietzsche-forschung

Friedrich Nietzsche has emerged as one of the most important and influential modern philosophers. For several decades, the book series Monographien und Texte zur Nietzsche-Forschung (MTNF) has set the agenda in a rapidly growing and changing field of Nietzsche scholarship. The scope of the series is interdisciplinary and international in orientation reflects the entire spectrum of research on Nietzsche, from philosophy to literary studies and political theory. The series publishes monographs and edited volumes that undergo a strict peer-review process. The book series is led by an international team of editors, whose work represents the full range of current Nietzsche scholarship.

Nietzsche's philosophy is a philosophy of lightness, a lightness which doesn't consist in breaking with gravity but in controlling it: being light is being able to take charge of life, ie bearing and loving it, wanting it.This book is first devoted to Greek lightness for Nietzsche finds in Ancient Greece the pattern for an alleviation which enables to unload one's drives without denying oneself. The study of Greek culture is thus the starting point of a close analysis of the "e;human, all-too-human"e; things, ie an inquiry whose orientation is definitely antimetaphysical, ie antiplatonic, antischopenhauerian and antiwagnerian: Nietzsche first shows that alleviation in religion has a "e;double face"e;: on the one hand, religion makes man's heart heavy with sinfulness; on the other hand it lightens it with the fiction of a merciful God. True alleviation thus consists in freeing oneself from religious lightening, and proclaiming the radical innocence of everything. Nietzsche also criticizes alleviation in art, ie a romantic alleviation. He shows that - like alleviation in religion - it requires a previous heaviness. Therefore he praises a classical art and an aesthetic of lightness. Nietzsche eventually focuses on a philosophical alleviation of life, defined as a freeing of spirit. Such a definition leads him to develop the "e;doctrine of the closest things"e;, which consist of the organization of a dietary alleviation of life.

Friedrich Nietzsche has emerged as one of the most important and influential modern philosophers. For several decades, the book series Monographien und Texte zur Nietzsche-Forschung (MTNF) has set the agenda in a rapidly growing and changing field of Nietzsche scholarship. The scope of the series is interdisciplinary and international in orientation reflects the entire spectrum of research on Nietzsche, from philosophy to literary studies and political theory. The series publishes monographs and edited volumes that undergo a strict peer-review process. The book series is led by an international team of editors, whose work represents the full range of current Nietzsche scholarship.

Nihilismus nimmt in Nietzsches Denken eine herausragende Stellung ein. Ab den 1880er Jahren taucht der schillernde Begriff in den Schriften des Philosophen auf. Deutlicher noch bezeugen Nietzsches Notate ein schweres geistiges Ringen mit dem "e;unheimlichsten aller Gaste"e;, der mit dem Nichts im Bunde den Sinn des Lebens infrage stellt. Doch bereits Die Geburt der Tragodie, Nietzsches Erstschrift, ist eine hellsichtige Auseinandersetzung mit dem Nihilismus, insofern sie zum einen dessen Genealogie zeichnet, wenn sie die versteckten nihilistischen Implikationen der abendlandischen Kultur aufdeckt. Andererseits richtet sie den Blick nach vorn, indem sie in Form einer asthetischen Lebensrechtfertigung nach einer Uberwindung des Nihilismus Ausschau halt. Diese Doppelbewegung: zuruck in die Ursprunge des Nihilismus und voraus in eine weniger nihilistische Zukunft pragt fortan Nietzsches Philosophie. Dieser Band arbeitet in einer werkgenetischen Analyse die Doppelbewegung heraus, wobei der Nihilismus nicht allein als kulturelles Phanomen, sondern auch in seiner anthropologischen Fundierung in Augenschein genommen wird. Anhand der Ergebnisse wird abschlieend die gegenwartige Sinnkrise diskutiert.

Friedrich Nietzsche has emerged as one of the most important and influential modern philosophers. For several decades, the book series Monographien und Texte zur Nietzsche-Forschung (MTNF) has set the agenda in a rapidly growing and changing field of Nietzsche scholarship. The scope of the series is interdisciplinary and international in orientation reflects the entire spectrum of research on Nietzsche, from philosophy to literary studies and political theory. The series publishes monographs and edited volumes that undergo a strict peer-review process. The book series is led by an international team of editors, whose work represents the full range of current Nietzsche scholarship.