B O O K S
Nietzsche, Gai Saber and Modernity
Tuncel explores the textual and topographical terrain of the troubadours and trobairitiz to show the spiritual affinity between their gai saber culture and Nietzsche’s advocation for a joyful wisdom, complicating the narrative divide between antiquity, medievalia, and the modern – enriching the study of the medieval poets and the modern philosopher while challenging us to live more fully.”
— David Kilpatrick, Mercy University
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Flames of Passion: Towards a Genealogy of Feeling
Aphorisms: Notebook F
Flames of Passion is a collection of aphorisms on feelings and emotions, a subject that has preoccupied the minds of writers and thinkers from different fields since ancient times. These aphorisms can be read independently or together and as responses to the insights of the aphorists of the past, as a chain of introspection can be formed across generations. Humans are sentient beings and yet the nature of emotive phenomena and the origin of feelings often evade them. This book is a modest attempt to confront this elusive subject.
Nietzsche on Human Emotions
Much has been said on particular feelings that appear in Nietzsche’s works, such as pity, revenge, altruism, guilt, shame, and ressentiment. But there has not been a significant study on Nietzsche’s overall teachings on feeling and emotion. What does Nietzsche mean by feeling and the related phenomena? Out of such disparate types of feelings and disparate reflections by Nietzsche on them, can one make sense or can one speak of a theory of feelings in Nietzsche? If so, how does this theory fit with his philosophy of value? On the other hand, how do his teachings relate to some of the later concepts of his philosophy such as the overhuman, the will to power and the eternal return of the same? While the book will contextualize Nietzsche’s emotive theory in relation to other emotive theories in the history of ideas, it will also explore Nietzsche’s influence on later generations in this area.
Emotion in Sports
This is the first book to examine emotion in sport from a philosophical perspective, building on concepts developed by ancient Greek and modern philosophers. How is Aristotle’s concept of catharsis applied to sports? How about power as advanced by Nietzsche, or existentialism as discussed by Kierkegaard? Emotion in Sport explores the philosophical framework for the expression of emotion and relates it to our psychological understanding, from the perspective of athlete and spectator. A useful read for students, researchers, scholars, and practitioners of sport sciences, philosophy, and psychology.
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Agon In Nietzsche
Agon in Nietzsche is a comprehensive study of Nietzsche's relationship to the agonistic culture of ancient Greece. The book examines not only the overt elements of Greek agonism in Nietzsche's early works, but also shows how his later works embody its spirit as it is manifest in such notions as the will to power, the overhuman, and active justice. While bringing Nietzsche scholarship together with recent studies on Greek agonism and the Olympic tradition, the book explores, in Nietzsche's works, the culture of competition in such areas as mythology, sacrifice, suffering, transfiguration, feeling, justice, training and education, rhetoric, spectacle, and power.
Towards A Geneaology of Spectacle
Towards a Genealogy of Spectacle is an exploration of contemporary experience of spectacle in its multiple layers, as it attempts to expose the forces that are at work in the making of spectacular events. It sets before itself two goals: to understand the language of spectacle, and to dissect the pathos of spectacle of contemporary society. In an age that is saturated with technology and the products of mass media, it aims to show how and why grand artistic spectacles are needed for the life and health of a culture. The book engages with the ideas of various thinkers from Kant and Schopenhauer to Foucault and Debord on the subject and aims to open up new spaces for thinking and is an invitation to spectacle-makers towards a fusion of art and philosophy.
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Complete Fragments: Notebook A
Heraclitus once wrote that lightning is the lord of everything --- a flash of magnanimity that inspires fear and reverence at once, begetting worlds and destroying them. Like a Force of nature itself, the aphorism penetrates our intelligence with the steely allure of existence, casting us into an indeterminate dialogue with our environment and our greater selves. Here, in these complete fragments, we approach the world of experience through the selfsame sense of wonder and openness --- a meditation on the implacable convergence of forces sustaining our lives.
- Aaron Simon