Nietzsche on Human Emotions

Yunus Tuncel

doi:10.24894/978-3-7965-4365-4

Summary

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.

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Copyright year: 2021
ISBN-Print: 978-3-7965-4345-6
ISBN-Online: 978-3-7965-4365-4
Publisher: Schwabe, Basel / Berlin
Language: English
Pages: 251
Product type: Book Titles

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis No access Pages 1 - 8
Introduction No access Pages 9 - 26
1. Introduction No access
2. 1. Historical, Literary and Philosophic Context No access
  2. Feeling and Related Concepts No access
  3. Periods in Nietzsche's works based on his teachings on human emotions No access
3. 1. The Dionysian and Catharsis of Emotions No access
  2. Fields and Forces of Culture No access
  3. Emotional Formation and Character Building (or Gefühlsbildung ^instead of L'education sentimentale) No access
4. 1. Critique of Ultra-Rationality No access
  2. Sentimentalism vs. Cognition: Emotion vs. Reason No access
  3. The Rational, the Non-rational and Passion No access
  4. What Kills Passions? No access
5. 1. Emotions/Feelings and Words No access
  2. Emotion vs. Interpretation No access
  3. The Individual vs. the Collective Aspects of Emotion No access
  4. Communication of Feelings and Emotions No access
6. 1. The Unconscious No access
  2. Instincts and Drives No access
  3. Affects and Psycho-Physiological Conditions No access
7. 1. Higher or Stronger Emotions No access
  2. Dominant vs. Passing (or Enduring vs. Fleeting) Emotions No access
  3. Life-Affirming vs. Life-Denying Emotions No access
  4. Emotional Transformation No access
8. 1. Values and Sensations (Empfindungen) No access
  2. Inherited and New Passions (Leidenschaften) No access
  3. Emotion as Value Interpretation No access
  4. Value Feeling No access
  5. Mastery and Expression of Emotions No access
1. Introduction No access
2. Chapter 1: Vanity (Eitelkeit) No access
3. Chapter 2: Suffering, Pain and Related Emotions No access
4. Chapter 3: Love No access
5. Chapter 4: Mitleid: ^Pity, Compassion et al. No access
6. Chapter 5: Envy (Neid) No access
7. Chapter 6: Ressentiment No access
8. Chapter 7: Revenge (Rache) No access
9. Chapter 8: Schadenfreude No access
1. Introduction No access
2. 1. Cosmological Reading No access
  2. Existential Reading No access
  3. Vicious Circle and the Eternal Return No access
  4. Repetition in the Eternal Return No access
  5. Temporal Reading: the Eternal Return as a Conception of Time No access
  6. A Digression: Deleuze's Response to the Cyclical Reading: No access
  7. Life/Death and Memory No access
  8. “Literal” or Performative Reading of the Eternal Return No access
  9. Emotive States and the Eternal Return – By Way of Conclusion No access
3. 1. Higher Types Before The Gay Science No access
  2. Higher Types, the Overhuman, and Emotions in The Gay Science ^and Zarathustra No access
  3. The Individual Above the Herd, Noble Types and their Emotional Constitution No access
  4. Transfiguration of Emotions (die Verklärung der Gefühle) No access
  5. Conclusion No access
4. 1. The Feeling of Power No access
  2. The Will to Power No access
  3. On the Feeling of Power and the Will to Power No access
  4. Epilogue: Power From An Emotive Standpoint No access
Epilogue No access Pages 227 - 232
1. I. Nietzsche's Works in German No access
2. II. Nietzsche's Works in English No access
3. III. Secondary Literature No access
Index No access Pages 243 - 251