Nietzsche on Human Emotions

by Yunus Tuncel

Book cover: Nietzsche on Human Emotions

Extent: 248 pages

Publisher: Schwabe Verlagsgruppe AG

Subjects: Philosophy

Series: Beitrage zu Friedrich Nietzsche

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(November 2021)

ISBN: 9783796543456

Price: $81.00

In stock

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.

  • By (author) Yunus Tuncel