Nietzsche and the Aesthetic by Eitan Machter
This Brief focuses on Nietzsche’s aesthetics not merely as an artistic field but as a way of understanding life itself. Unlike his predecessors, Nietzsche rather saw aesthetics as a fundamental principle aim of human existence. This volume demonstrates how Nietzsche’s aesthetic thinking is not simply an analysis of art but rather a comprehensive worldview shaping his approach to morality, truth, and the meaning of life. It traces the development of aesthetics beginning with Nietzsche’s first major work, The Birth of Tragedy. Machter appeals to the "death of God," one of Nietzsche’s central claims, as not just a theological statement but a cultural-aesthetic one; and also reflects on the Overman as a response to nihilism. This volume appeals to students and researchers and presents Nietzsche’s aesthetics as not an escape into the world of art but rather a call for individuals toward a meaningful life.
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Philosophy of Mind for the Budding Psychonaut
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Critique and Utopia: From Kant to the Frankfurt School
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Outonomy: Fleshing out the Concept of Autonomy Beyond the Individual
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Critical Distance: Ethical and Literary Engagements with Detachment, Isolation, and Otherness
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Synthetic Biology and the Question of Public Participation
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The Limits of Art
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Reflexive Emotions
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Understanding the Impact of Machine Learning on Labor and Education
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The Irreducible Reality of the Object
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Sisters of the Brotherhood: Alienation and Inclusion in Learning Philosophy
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Humanism and Artificial Intelligence
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New Conversations on the Problems of Identity, Consciousness and Mind
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The Visible, the Sublime and the Sensus Communis
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Infinite Regress Arguments
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Demonstration and Burhan
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Crack and Culture: On Representations of Movement in Anthropology and Philosophy
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Theoretical and Practical Reason in Economics
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The First-Person Authority of Children
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Materialism: A Historico-Philosophical Introduction
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The Conceptual Structure of Reality
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Mind and Matter
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Socrates on the Life of Philosophical Inquiry
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Description of Situations
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Traditional and Complementary Medicines: Are they Ethical for Humans, Animals and the Environment?
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Kenosis and the Question of Political Theology
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Science and Enlightenment
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Essentials of Risk Theory
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A Dialogue on Explanation
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A Critical Overview of Biological Functions
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Saving Cities
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Seemings and Epistemic Justification
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Partitions, Objective Indefiniteness, and Quantum Reality
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Arnheim, Gestalt and Media
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The Challenges of Contemporaneity
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Belief, Evidence, and Uncertainty
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Husserlian Phenomenology
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A Buddhist Theory of Privacy
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Pragmatism in Philosophical Inquiry
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Human Development and Human Life
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How to Do Science with Models
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Evaluating Evidence of Mechanisms in Medicine
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Complexity, Emergence and the Evolution of Scientific Theories: Towards a Predictive Epistemology
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Idealization and the Laws of Nature
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Aesthetics and the Iconoclasm of Contemporary Art
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Evolutionary Psychology and the Propositional-attitudes
Dr. Machter is a researcher and senior lecturer at the School of Design & Department of Philosophy at the University of Haifa. He has published several books in the fields of visual culture theory, the philosophy of aesthetics, and aesthetic education.
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| ISBN 13 | 9783032034717 |
| ISBN 10 | 303203471X |
| Title | Nietzsche and the Aesthetic |
| Author | Eitan Machter |
| Series | Springerbriefs In Philosophy |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Springer Nature Switzerland AG |
| Year published | 2025-08-29 |
| Number of pages | 133 |
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