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The Self-Overcoming of Nihilism
Paperback
Series: Suny Modern Japanese Philosophy
ISBN13: 9780791404386
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Oct 9 1990
Pages: 274
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.08 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
Notes on Texts
Preface to the First Edition
One
Nihilism as Existence
1. Two Problems
2. Nihilism and the Philosophy of History
3. European Nihilism
Two
From Realism to Nihilism: Hegel, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Feuerbach
1. Hegel's Absolute Idealism and Radical Realism
2. Schopenhauer-Will as Real-The Nullity of Existence
3. Kierkegaard-Becoming and Existence
4. Feuerbach-Critique of Religion, Philosophy, and Ethics
Three
Friedrich Nietzsche: The First Consummate Nihilist
1. The Significance of Nihilism in Nietzsche
2. Radical Nihilism
3. Nietzsche's Interpretation of Christianity
4. The Concept of Sincerity-Will to Illusion
Four
Nietzsche's Affirmative Nihilism: Amor Fati and Eternal Recurrence
1. Value-Interpretation and Perspectivism
2. The Problem of Amor Fati
3. Love of Fate as Innermost Nature-Suffering-Soul
4. The Idea of Eternal Recurrence: The Moment and Eternity
5. Eternal Recurrence and Overcoming the Spirit of Gravity
6. Love of Fate and Eternal Recurrence
7. The Self-Overcoming of Nihilism
Five
Nihilism and Existence in Nietzsche
1. God is Dead
2. Critique of Religion
3. The Stages of Nihilism
4. Nihilism as Existence
5. The First Stage of Existence
6. The Second Stage of Existence
7. Nihilism as Scientific Conscience
8. Science and History as Existence
9. Living Dangerously and Experimentation
10. The Third Stage-Existence as Body
11. The Dialectical Development of Nihilism
Six
Nihilism as Egoism: Max Stirner
1. Stirner's Context
2. The Meaning of Egoism
3. Realist, Idealist, Egoist-Creative Nothing
4. From Paganism to Christianity
5. From Christianity to Liberalism
6. From Liberalism to Egoism
7. Ownness and Property-All and Nothing
8. The State and the Individual
Seven
Nihilism in Russia
1. Russian Nihilism
2. Bazarov's Nihilism-Fathers and Sons
3. Nihilism as Contemplation-Notes from Underground
Eight
Nihilism as Philosophy: Martin Heidegger
1. Existentialism as a Discipline
2. The Ontological Difference
3. Transcendence and Being-in-the-World
4. Being-toward-Death and Anxiety
5. Finitude-Metaphysics-Existence-Freedom
Nine
The Meaning of Nihilism for Japan
1. The Crisis in Europe and Nihilism
2. The Crisis Compounded
3. The Significance of European Nihilism for Us
4. Buddhism and Nihilism
Appendix The Problem of Atheism
1. Marxist Humanism
2. Sartrean Existentialism
3. Atheism in the World of Today
Notes
Index
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