Nietzsche's Affirmative Morality

Download or read book Nietzsche's Affirmative Morality written by Peter Durno Murray and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 1999 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the development of an affirmative ethics or morality in Nietzsche's work, and attempts to demonstrate that this process is that of an increasingly complicated articulation of the encounter with otherness. Pays particular attention to the fundamental premise of Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy: that a Dionysian ground of pleasure underlies all meaning-creation. Analyzes how Nietzsche adapted the imagery of Greek Dionysianism to describe a contradictory world of joy and suffering in which joy is fundamental. This contradictory relationship is found to be present in Greek thinkers who propound the metaphysics of the Mysteries.