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Germinal Life

The Difference and Repetition of Deleuze

By: Keith Ansell-Pearson,Keith Ansell Pearson

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Germinal Life

The Difference and Repetition of Deleuze

By: Keith Ansell-Pearson,Keith Ansell Pearson

Germinal Life is the sequel to the highly successful Viroid Life. Where Viroid Life provided a compelling reading of Nietzsche's philosophy of the human, Germinal Life is an original and groundbreaking analysis of little known and difficult theoretical aspects of the work of French philosopher Gilles Deleuze. In particular, Keith Ansell Pearson provides fresh and insightful readings of Deleuze's work on Bergson and Deleuze's most famous texts Difference and Repetition and A Thousand Plateaus. Germinal Life also provides new insights into Deleuze's relation to some of the most original thinkers of modernity, from Darwin to Freud and Nietzsche, and explores the connections between Deleuze and more recent thinkers such as Adorno and Merleau-Ponty.

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1134671199

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How To Read Nietzsche

By: Keith Ansell-Pearson

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How To Read Nietzsche

By: Keith Ansell-Pearson

My humanity is a constant self-overcoming' Friedrich Nietzsche Nietzsche's thinking revolves around a new and striking concept of humanity - a humanity which has come to terms with the death of God and practises the art and science of living well, free of the need for metaphysical certainties and moral absolutes. How, then, are we to live? And what do we love? Keith Ansell-Pearson introduces the reader to Nietzsche's distinctive philosophical style and to the development of his thought. Through a series of close readings of Nietzsche's aphorisms he illuminates some ofhis best-known but often ill-understood ideas, including eternal recurrence and the superman, the death of God and the will to power, and brings to light the challenging nature of Nietzsche's thinking on key topics such as beauty, truth and memory. Extracts are taken from a range of Nietzsche's work, including Human, All Too Human, The Gay Science, Thus Spoke Zarathustra and On the Genealogy of Morality.

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Granta Books

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178378072X

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Nietzsche Contra Rousseau

A Study of Nietzsche's Moral and Political Thought

By: Keith Ansell-Pearson

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Nietzsche Contra Rousseau

A Study of Nietzsche's Moral and Political Thought

By: Keith Ansell-Pearson

This book takes a serious look at Nietzsche as political thinker and relates his political ideas to the dominant traditions of modern political thought. It also demonstrates Rousseau's crucial role in Nietzsche's understanding of modernity.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521575699

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9780521575690

Philosophy and the Adventure of the Virtual

By: Keith Ansell-Pearson,Keith Ansell Pearson

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Philosophy and the Adventure of the Virtual

By: Keith Ansell-Pearson,Keith Ansell Pearson

With the development of new technologies and the Internet, the notion of the virtual has grown increasingly important. In this lucid collection of essays, Pearson bridges the continental-analytic divide in philosophy, bringing the virtual to centre stage and arguing its importance for re-thinking such central philosophical questions as time and life. Drawing on philosophers from Bergson, Kant and Nietzsche to Proust, Russell, Dennett and Badiou, Pearson examines the limits of continuity, explores relativity, and offers a concept of creative evolution.

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1134559682

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9781134559688

Viroid Life

Perspectives on Nietzsche and the Transhuman Condition

By: Keith Ansell Pearson

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Viroid Life

Perspectives on Nietzsche and the Transhuman Condition

By: Keith Ansell Pearson

Nietzsche's vision of the 'overman' continues to haunt the postmodern imagination. His call that 'man is something that must be overcome' can no longer be seen as simple rhetoric. Our experiences of the hybrid realities of artificial life have made the 'transhuman' a figure that looks over us all. Inspired by this vision, Keith Ansell Pearson sets out to examine if evolution is 'out of control' and machines are taking over. In a series of six fascinating perspectives, he links Nietzsche's thought with the issues at stake in contemporary conceptions of evolution from the biological to the technological. Viroid Life; Perspectives on Nietzsche and the Transhuman Condition considers the hybrid, 'inhuman' character of our future with the aid of Nietzsche's philosophy. Keith Ansell Pearson contrasts Nietzsche and Darwin before introducing the more recent figures such as Giles Deleuze and Guy Debord to sketch a new thinking of technics and machines and stress the ambiguous character of our 'machine enslavement'.

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1134734611

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An Introduction to Nietzsche as Political Thinker

The Perfect Nihilist

By: Keith Ansell-Pearson

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An Introduction to Nietzsche as Political Thinker

The Perfect Nihilist

By: Keith Ansell-Pearson

An introduction to Nietzsche's political thinking, which traces the development of his thinking on politics from his early writings to the mature work where he advocates aristocratic radicalism as opposed to petty European nationalism. Key ideas - the will

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0521427215

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The New Century

Bergsonism, Phenomenology and Responses to Modern Science

By: Keith Ansell-Pearson,Alan D. Schrift

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The New Century

Bergsonism, Phenomenology and Responses to Modern Science

By: Keith Ansell-Pearson,Alan D. Schrift

This volume covers the period between the 1890s and 1930s, a period that witnessed revolutions in the arts and society which set the agenda for the rest of the century. In philosophy, the period saw the birth of analytic philosophy, the development of new programmes and new modes of inquiry, the emergence of phenomenology as a new rigorous science, the birth of Freudian psychoanalysis, and the maturing of the discipline of sociology. This period saw the most influential work of a remarkable series of thinkers who reviewed, evaluated and transformed 19th-century thought. A generation of thinkers - among them, Henri Bergson, Emile Durkheim, Sigmund Freud, Martin Heidegger, Edmund Husserl, Karl Jaspers, Max Scheler, and Ludwig Wittgenstein - completed the disenchantment of the world and sought a new re-enchantment.

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1317546938

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Nietzsche's Dawn

Philosophy, Ethics, and the Passion of Knowledge

By: Keith Ansell-Pearson,Rebecca Bamford

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Nietzsche's Dawn

Philosophy, Ethics, and the Passion of Knowledge

By: Keith Ansell-Pearson,Rebecca Bamford

The first focused study of Nietzsche's Dawn, offering a close reading of the text by two of the leading scholars on the philosophy of Nietzsche Published in 1881, Dawn: Thoughts on the Presumptions of Morality represents a significant moment in the development of Nietzsche’s philosophy and his break with German philosophic thought. Though groundbreaking in many ways, Dawn remains the least studied of Nietzsche's work. In Nietzsche's Dawn: Philosophy, Ethics, and the Passion of Knowledge, authors Keith Ansell-Pearson and Rebecca Bamford present a thorough treatment of the second of Nietzsche’s so-called “free spirit” trilogy. This unique book explores Nietzsche’s philosophy at the time of Dawn's writing and discusses the modern relevance of themes such as fear, superstition, terror, and moral and religious fanaticism. The authors highlight Dawn's links with key areas of philosophical inquiry, such as "the art of living well," skepticism, and naturalism. The book begins by introducing Dawn and discussing how to read Nietzsche, his literary and philosophical influences, his relation to German philosophy, and his efforts to advance his "free spirit" philosophy. Subsequent discussions address a wide range of topics relevant to Dawn, including presumptions of customary morality, hatred of the self, free-minded thinking, and embracing science and the passion of knowledge. Providing a lively and imaginative engagement with Nietzsche's text, this book: Highlights the importance of an often-neglected text from Nietzsche's middle writings Examines Nietzsche's campaign against customary morality Discusses Nietzsche's responsiveness to key Enlightenment ideas Offers insights on Nietzsche's philosophical practice and influences Contextualizes a long-overlooked work by Nietzsche within the philosopher's life of writing Like no other book on the subject, Nietzsche's Dawn: Philosophy, Ethics, and the Passion of Knowledge is a must-read for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, instructors, and scholars in philosophy, as well as general readers with interest in Nietzsche, particularly his middle writings.

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1118957784

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Nietzsche's 'Beyond Good and Evil'

A Reader's Guide

By: Christa Davis Acampora,Keith Ansell Pearson

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Nietzsche's 'Beyond Good and Evil'

A Reader's Guide

By: Christa Davis Acampora,Keith Ansell Pearson

Beyond Good and Evil contains Nietzsche's mature philosophy of the free spirit. Although it is one of his most widely read texts, it is a notoriously difficult piece of philosophical writing. The authors demonstrate in clear and precise terms why it is to be regarded as Nietzsche's philosophical masterpiece and the work of a revolutionary genius. This Reader's Guide is the ideal companion to study, offering guidance on: - Philosophical and historical context - Key themes - Reading the text - Further reading

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0826438334

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Germinal Life

The Difference and Repetition of Deleuze

By: Keith Ansell-Pearson,Keith Ansell Pearson

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The Difference and Repetition of Deleuze

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Nietzsche’s Search for Philosophy

On the Middle Writings

By: Keith Ansell Pearson

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Nietzsche’s Search for Philosophy

On the Middle Writings

By: Keith Ansell Pearson

In Nietzsche's Search for Philosophy: On the Middle Writings Keith Ansell-Pearson makes a novel and thought-provoking contribution to our appreciation of Nietzsche's neglected middle writings. These are the texts Human, all too Human (1878-80), Dawn (1881), and The Gay Science (1882). There is a truth in the observation of Havelock Ellis that the works Nietzsche produced between 1878 and 1882 represent the maturity of his genius. In this study he explores key aspects of Nietzsche's philosophical activity in his middle writings, including his conceptions of philosophy, his commitment to various enlightenments, his critique of fanaticism, his search for the heroic-idyllic, his philosophy of modesty and his conception of ethics, and his search for joy and happiness. The book will appeal to readers across philosophy and the humanities, especially to those with an interest in Nietzsche and anyone who has a concern with the fate of philosophy in the modern world.

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1474254721

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How To Read Nietzsche

By: Keith Ansell-Pearson

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Viroid Life

Perspectives on Nietzsche and the Transhuman Condition

By: Keith Ansell Pearson

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Perspectives on Nietzsche and the Transhuman Condition

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Bergson

Thinking Beyond the Human Condition

By: Keith Ansell Pearson

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Bergson

Thinking Beyond the Human Condition

By: Keith Ansell Pearson

A thought-provoking contribution to the renaissance of interest in Bergson, this study brings him to a new generation of readers. Ansell-Pearson contends that there is a Bergsonian revolution, an upheaval in philosophy comparable in significance to those that we are more familiar with, from Kant to Nietzsche and Heidegger, that make up our intellectual modernity. The focus of the text is on Bergson's conception of philosophy as the discipline that seeks to 'think beyond the human condition'. Not that we are caught up in an existential predicament when the appeal is made to think beyond the human condition; rather that restricting philosophy to the human condition fails to appreciate the extent to which we are not simply creatures of habit and automatism, but also organisms involved in a creative evolution of becoming. Ansell-Pearson introduces the work of Bergson and core aspects of his innovative modes of thinking; examines his interest in Epicureanism; explores his interest in the self and in time and memory; presents Bergson on ethics and on religion, and illuminates Bergson on the art of life.

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1350043966

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Bergson

Thinking Beyond the Human Condition

By: Keith Ansell Pearson

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Thinking Beyond the Human Condition

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Nietzsche’s Search for Philosophy

On the Middle Writings

By: Keith Ansell Pearson

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On the Middle Writings

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Nietzsche's 'Beyond Good and Evil'

A Reader's Guide

By: Christa Davis Acampora,Keith Ansell Pearson

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Nietzsche's 'Beyond Good and Evil'

A Reader's Guide

By: Christa Davis Acampora,Keith Ansell Pearson

A student-friendly introduction to one of Nietzsche's most widely-read and studied texts. >

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Nietzsche's Dawn

Philosophy, Ethics, and the Passion of Knowledge

By: Keith Ansell-Pearson,Rebecca Bamford

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Philosophy, Ethics, and the Passion of Knowledge

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119693667

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Deleuze and Philosophy

The Difference Engineer

By: Keith Ansell-Pearson,Keith Ansell Pearson

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Deleuze and Philosophy

The Difference Engineer

By: Keith Ansell-Pearson,Keith Ansell Pearson

The work of Gilles Deleuze has had an impact far beyond philosophy. He is among Foucault and Derrida as one of the most cited of all contemporary French thinkers. Never a student 'of' philosophy, Deleuze was always philosophical and many influential poststructuralist and postmodernist texts can be traced to his celebrated resurrection of Nietzsche against Hegel in his Nietzsche and Philosophy, from which this collection draws its title. This searching new collection considers Deleuze's relation to the philosophical tradition and beyond to the future of philosophy, science and technology. In addition to considering Deleuze's imaginative readings of classic figures such as Spinoza and Kant, the essays also point to the meaning of Deleuze on 'monstrous' and machinic thinking, on philosophy and engineering, on philosophy and biology, on modern painting and literature. Deleuze and Philosophy continues the spirit of experimentation and invention that features in Deleuze's work and will appeal to those studying across philosophy, social theory, literature and cultural studies who themselves are seeking new paradigms of thought.

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