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3Nietzsche's on the Genealogy of Morals: Critical EssaysRowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2006.In this astonishingly rich volume, experts in ethics, epistemology, philosophy of mind, political theory, aesthetics, history, critical theory, and hermeneutics bring to light the best philosophical scholarship on what is arguably Nietzsche's most rewarding but most challenging text. Including essays that were commissioned specifically for the volume as well as essays revised and edited by their authors, this collection showcases definitive works that have shaped Nietzsche studies alongside new …Read more
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28. Dramatis Personae: Nietzsche, Culture, and Human TypesIn Alan D. Schrift (ed.), Why Nietzsche Still?: Reflections on Drama, Culture, and Politics, University of California Press. pp. 136-153. 2000.
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Brilliant performancesIn Anthony O'Hear (ed.), Philosophy and the Arts, Cambridge University Press. 2013.
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3Wagner's Parsifal: the Music of Redemption by Roger Scruton (London: Allen Lane, 2020)Philosophy 95 (4): 523-529. 2020.
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17Acting for Aesthetic ReasonsEstetika: The European Journal of Aesthetics 54 (1). 2020.It seems natural to think that there are aesthetic reasons for action and that an artist must be guided by such reasons as he or she begins work on the canvas or poem or symphony or marble. This latter supposition seems at odds, however, not only with classical inspiration theory but also with the views of one of the last century’s most important philosophers of art, R. G. Collingwood. We propose an account of acting for an aesthetic reason inspired by G. E. M. Anscombe’s Intention, specifically…Read more
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41Nietzsche on Tragedy: First and Last ThoughtsThe Monist 102 (3): 316-330. 2019.Nietzsche is often said to have started out as a Schopenhauerian metaphysician of some kind before leaving Schopenhauer behind him, and, by the end of his sane life, metaphysics too. His first and last thoughts about tragedy, however, sit uneasily with this narrative. The late thoughts are simply too close to the early ones for the story to accommodate them—not for their Schopenhauerianism, but for the strongly metaphysical flavour that they appear to share. The argument of the present paper is …Read more
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21Dramatis personae: Nietzsche as cultural physicianIn Alan D. Schrift (ed.), Why Nietzsche Still?: Reflections on Drama, Culture, and Politics, University of California Press. pp. 136-153. 2000.
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16The Deed is Everything: Nietzsche on Will and ActionOxford University Press. 2018.The Deed is Everything offers an engaging new interpretation of Nietzsche as committed to an 'expressivist' conception of agency. Aaron Ridley shows that Nietzsche develops highly distinctive accounts of freedom, morality, and selfhood, with a robust commitment to the value of human excellence in all of its forms.
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16F.H. BradleyBradley Studies 1 (2): 107-115. 1995.The speed with which Bradley became an historical backwater has probably made it easier to think of him as a second-rate philosopher, who was either incompetent or careless, or at any rate uninteresting, and to suppose that his arguments have been refuted as well as rejected. But as far as his metaphysics are concerned this is not the case. His project and his premises are not those of contemporary analytic philosophy, but his arguments are none the less rigorous for that; and attempts to convic…Read more
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33F.H. BradleyBradley Studies 1 (2): 107-115. 1995.The speed with which Bradley became an historical backwater has probably made it easier to think of him as a second-rate philosopher, who was either incompetent or careless, or at any rate uninteresting, and to suppose that his arguments have been refuted as well as rejected. But as far as his metaphysics are concerned this is not the case. His project and his premises are not those of contemporary analytic philosophy, but his arguments are none the less rigorous for that; and attempts to convic…Read more
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What is the meaning of aesthetic idealsIn Salim Kemal, Ivan Gaskell & Daniel W. Conway (eds.), Nietzsche, Philosophy and the Arts, Cambridge University Press. 1998.
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21Discussion of the relations between ethics and aesthetics has tended to focus on issues concerning judgement: for example, philosophers have often asked whether, or to what extent, ethical considerations of one sort or another should inform aesthetic verdicts. Much less discussed, however, have been the relations between these two domains in their practical aspects. In this paper, I try to defuse a cluster of reasons for believing that practical competence in the ethical domain and practical com…Read more
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5TragedyIn Jerrold Levinson (ed.), The Oxford handbook of aesthetics, Oxford University Press. 2003.
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7Vi *—nietzsche and the re-evaluation of valuesProceedings of the Aristotelian Society 105 (2): 171-191. 2005.
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