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22Self-Love in Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke ZarathustraThe European Legacy 26 (5): 505-518. 2020.ABSTRACT What is the best way to confront the thought of eternal recurrence—the thought that we would have to live our life “once again and innumerable times again”—this great, heavy burden that, as Nietzsche warns, may crush us? In this article, I argue that learning to love oneself plays a privileged role in preparing us for facing this abysmal thought. Self-love consists in the cultivation of self-knowledge and in an engagement with the past that enables us to give it new meaning and signific…Read more
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17“Physio-psychology”: Nietzsche’s mixed discourseSouth African Journal of Philosophy 39 (3): 246-260. 2020.
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8Descartes’s Turn to the BodyEpoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 24 (2): 369-388. 2020.What are Descartes’s views on the body and how do they change? In this article, I try to make clearer the nature of the shift towards an increased focus on the body as ‘my’ body in Descartes’s Passions of the Soul. The interest in the nature of passions, considered from the point of view of the ‘natural scientist’, is indicative of a new approach to the study of the human. Moving beyond the infamous mind-body union, grounded in his dualist metaphysics, Descartes begins developing a philosophical…Read more
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8Consciousness within the Boundaries of Practical ReasonTijdschrift Voor Filosofie 81 (3): 451-468. 2019.How should we understand Spinoza’s views on consciousness against the background of his interest in the pursuit of empowerment and freedom? This paper argues that consciousness consists in a plurality of affections of substance that do not necessarily help us in our striving for liberation. Spinoza wants to dispel various moral and metaphysical illusions associated with previous accounts of consciousness. Nevertheless, he does not provide more details, because an in-depth analysis of consciousne…Read more
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27The Body in Spinoza and NietzschePalgrave Macmillan. 2019.Provides a comparative study in the history of modern philosophy focused on Spinoza and Nietzsche's recourse to physiology. Proposes Nietzsche and Spinoza's appeal to physiology as the key to solving fundamental philosophical problems. Taps into the heart of the growing interest in the Spinoza-Nietzsche connection through detailed discussions of substance metaphysics and the ontology of power, as well as their ethical and political positions.
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10As ilusões do eu—Spinoza e Nietzsche ed. by André Martins, Homero Santiago, and Luís César Oliva, and: Spinoza e Nietzsche—filósofos contra a tradição ed. by Ana Claudia Gama Barreto, Danilo Bilate, and Tiago Mota da Silva Barros (review) (review)Journal of Nietzsche Studies 46 (3): 475-479. 2015.
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17Philosophical Physiology: Schopenhauer and NietzscheIn Leonel R. dos Santos & Katia Dawn Hay (eds.), Nietzsche, German Idealism and its Critics, De Gruyter. pp. 208-222. 2015.
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12Spinoza and Nietzsche on Freedom Empowerment and AffirmationEuropean Journal of Philosophy 25 (4): 1864-1883. 2017.Against much of the philosophical tradition, Spinoza and Nietzsche defend an understanding of freedom opposed to free will and formulated as an ethical ideal consisting in a transition from a smaller to a greater power of acting. Starting from a shared commitment to necessity and radical immanence, they present freedom as a passage to a greater power of self-determination and self-expression of the body. Nevertheless, the continuities between their power ontologies and their respective commitmen…Read more
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7The Politics of PhysiologyIn Manuel Knoll & Barry Stocker (eds.), Nietzsche as Political Philosopher, De Gruyter. pp. 383-404. 2014.
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8A Case of “Consumption”: Nietzsche’s Diagnosis of SpinozaNietzsche Studien 46 (1): 1-27. 2017.This paper investigates Nietzsche’s reception of Spinoza in order to develop our understanding of the complex relations between their respective philosophies starting from their shared commitment to ontologies of power. The first three sections of this essay contain a diachronic analysis of Nietzsche’s engagement with Spinoza and a discussion of the major themes in play. The last section consists in an evaluation of Nietzsche’s explicit and implicit criticisms that helps us gain a sense of the c…Read more
Razvan Ioan
New Europe College, Bucharest
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New Europe College, BucharestPost-doctoral Fellow