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54Vi *-Nietzsche and the re-evaluation of valuesProceedings of the Aristotelian Society 105 (1): 155-175. 2005.This paper offers an account of Nietzsche's re-evaluation of values that seeks to satisfy two desiderata, both important if Nietzsche's project is to stand a chance of success. The first is that Nietzsche's re-evaluations must be capable of being understood as authoritative by those whose values are subject to re-evaluation. The second is that Nietzsche's project must not falsify the values being re-evaluated, by, for example, misrepresenting intrinsic values as instrumental values. Given this, …Read more
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25R.G. Collingwood: a philosophy of art (edited book)Phoenix. 1998.Many philosophers have been interested in aesthetics, but Collingwood was passionate about art. His theories were never merely theoretical: aesthetics for him was a vivid, vibrant thing, to be experienced immediately in worked paint and in sculptured stones, in poetry and music. Art and life were no dichotomy for Collingwood - for how could you have one without the other? Works of art were created in and for the real world, to be enjoyed by real people, to enchant to enhance. Aaron Ridley's fasc…Read more
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2Persona sometimes grata : on the appreciation of expressive musicIn Kathleen Stock (ed.), Philosophers on Music: Experience, Meaning, and Work, Oxford University Press. 2007.
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36Routledge philosophy guidebook to Nietzsche on artRoutledge. 2007.Presenting some of Nietzsche's most significant thoughts on art and literature, this enthralling account traces the development of his thinking throughout his ...
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20Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Nietzsche on ArtRoutledge. 2007.Nietzsche is one of the most important modern philosophers and his writings on the nature of art are amongst the most influential of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This_ GuideBook _introduces and assesses: Nietzsche's life and the background to his writings on art the ideas and texts of his works which contribute to art, including _The_ _Birth of Tragedy_, _Human, All Too Human_ and _Thus Spoke Zarathustra_ Nietzsche's continuing importance to philosophy and contemporary thought. This _…Read more
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19Review: Ancillary Thoughts on an Ancillary Text (review)Journal of Nietzsche Studies. forthcoming.
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53Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Nietzsche on ArtJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 65 (4): 426-428. 2007.
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6Nietzsche: The Anti-Christ, Ecce Homo, Twilight of the Idols: And Other Writings (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2005.Nietzsche's late works are brilliant and uncompromising, and stand as monuments to his lucidity, rigour, and style. This volume combines, for the first time in English, five of these works: The Antichrist, Ecce Homo, Twilight of the Idols, Nietzsche contra Wagner, and The Case of Wagner. Here, Nietzsche takes on some of his greatest adversaries: traditional religion, contemporary culture, and above all his one-time hero, the composer Richard Wagner. His writing is simultaneously critical and cre…Read more
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15Nietzsche on Art and FreedomEuropean Journal of Philosophy 15 (2): 204-224. 2007.There are passages in Nietzsche that can be read as contributions to the free will/determinism debate. When read in that way, they reveal a fairly amateurish metaphysician with little of real substance or novelty to contribute; and if these readings were apt or perspicuous, it seems to me, they would show that Nietzsche's thoughts about freedom were barely worth pausing over. They would simply confirm the impression—amply bolstered from other quarters—that Nietzsche was not at his best when addr…Read more
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28On the Musically PossibleBritish Journal of Aesthetics 54 (1): 1-14. 2014.It seems natural to suppose that Artur Schnabel’s occasionally inaccurate performance of Beethoven’s Hammerklavier would have been even better had it been accurate throughout. In the present paper I defend this supposition against a sceptical argument which purports to show that we have no good reason to believe it. The sceptical argument, which draws on some plausible-seeming thoughts about aesthetic properties, concludes that, because we cannot know whether this or that (as-yet-unachieved) mus…Read more
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54Nietzsche, Nature, NurtureEuropean Journal of Philosophy 25 (1): 129-143. 2017.Nietzsche claims that we are fated to be as we are. He also claims, however, that we can create ourselves. To many commentators these twin commitments have seemed self-contradictory or paradoxical. The argument of this paper, by contrast, is that, despite appearances, there is no paradox here, nor even a tension between Nietzsche's two claims. Instead, when properly interpreted these claims turn out to be intimately related to one another, so that our fatedness emerges as integral to our capacit…Read more
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85Perishing of the Truth: Nietzsche's Aesthetic Prophylactics: ArticlesBritish Journal of Aesthetics 50 (4): 427-437. 2010.This paper offers an interpretation of Nietzsche’s well known unpublished remark, ‘Truth is ugly. We possess art lest we perish of the truth.’ I argue that it is not helpful to construe this remark as a claim to the effect that art falsifies the truth by, for example, peddling lies or deceptions. Rather, I suggest, the remark should be taken to refer to the various ways in which art can present us with the truth in such a manner that we do not perish of it. And of these ways, I argue, the most i…Read more
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125Nietzsche on art and freedomEuropean Journal of Philosophy 15 (2). 2007.There are passages in Nietzsche that can be read as contributions to the free will/determinism debate. When read in that way, they reveal a fairly amateurish metaphysician with little of real substance or novelty to contribute; and if these readings were apt or perspicuous, it seems to me, they would show that Nietzsche's thoughts about freedom were barely worth pausing over. They would simply confirm the impression—amply bolstered from other quarters—that Nietzsche was not at his best when addr…Read more
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84Nietzsche's Conscience: Six Character Studies from the 'Genealogy'Cornell University Press. 1998.Aaron Ridley explores Nietzsche's mature ethical thought as expressed in his masterpiece On the Genealogy of Morals. Taking seriously the use that Nietzsche makes of human types, Ridley arranges his book thematically around the six characters who loom largest in that work—the slave, the priest, the philosopher, the artist, the scientist, and the noble. By elucidating what the Genealogy says about these figures, he achieves a persuasive new assessment of Nietzsche's ethics. Ridley's intellectuall…Read more
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86Not ideal: Collingwood's expression theoryJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 55 (3): 263-272. 1997.
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17Nietzsche's ethics and his war on ‘morality’ by Simon may, oxford university press, 1999, pp. 212, £30Philosophy 76 (3): 460-475. 2001.
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53Nietzsche's intentions: what the sovereign individual promisesIn Ken Gemes & Simon May (eds.), Nietzsche on freedom and autonomy, Oxford University Press. pp. 181--196. 2009.
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68Music, value, and the passionsCornell University Press. 1995.For a century there has been a divergence between what music theorists say music is about and what the ordinary listener actually experiences. Music theory has insisted on a separation of musical experience from the experience of emotions, from the passions. Yet a passionate experience of music is just what most ordinary listeners have. Charting a new course through the minefield of contemporary philosophy of music, Aaron Ridley provides a coherent defense of the ordinary listener's beliefs. Foc…Read more
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55Nietzsche and the Arts of LifeIn Ken Gemes & John Richardson (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Nietzsche, Oxford University Press. 2013.This article focuses on how aesthetic values permeate Nietzsche’s philosophy. Artistry is not confined to the creation of conventional works of art but occurs in the form-giving that is essential to all human forms of life. Since Nietzsche was committed to the view that the world is in some basic sense chaotic and meaningless, he held that only by imposing forms can we create a cognizable world. This close association between the conditions of life itself and the aesthetic activity of giving for…Read more
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242Musical sympathies: The experience of expressive musicJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 53 (1): 49-57. 1995.
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3Expression in ArtIn Jerrold Levinson (ed.), The Oxford handbook of aesthetics, Oxford University Press. 2003.
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Musical expression. Expression in music / Derek Matravers ; Explaining musical experience / Paul Boghossian ; Persona sometimes grata : on the appreciation of expressive musicIn Kathleen Stock (ed.), Philosophers on Music: Experience, Meaning, and Work, Oxford University Press. 2007.
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117Guilt Before God, or God Before Guilt? The Second Essay of Nietzsche's GenealogyJournal of Nietzsche Studies 29 (1): 35-45. 2005.
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8Collingwood: The Great PhilosophersRoutledge. 1997.First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company
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