Rebecca Bamford

Queen's University Belfast | QUB

Resumo: Neste artigo, pretendo esclarecer o desenvolvimento da consideração a respeito da objetividade em Nietzsche em suas obras publicadas e autorizadas. Na presente pesquisa, notou-se que Nietzsche, de forma explícita, estabelece uma diferença entre dois tipos de objetividade. O que aqui chamarei de objetividade tipo 1 é aquela que o filósofo al...

Nietzsche’s deployment of multiple modes of self-presentation in Ecce Homo is meant to provide his readers with an appropriate introduction to the new incarnation in which he appears before them. The “man” he urges his readers to “behold” in the pages of this bristling little book exemplifies the Dionysian spirituality that is recommended to all th...

This essay argues that in Ecce Homo, Nietzsche engages critically with philosophical methodology as a part of his wider interest in the transvaluation of all values. It shows that Nietzsche’s remarks in the text are commensurate with his wider critical engagement with philosophical methodology in texts such as The Gay Science, Thus Spoke Zarathustr...

Nietzsche's wider political thinking has been widely recognized as therapeutic in orientation, as part of its connection to the history of psychology. This chapter examines the remarks that Nietzsche does make with respect to the political in Dawn, focusing on his concern with the effects on humanity of capital and industrial development upon Europ...

This chapter focuses on Nietzsche's analyses of religion and Christianity, as well as a religious figure such as Saint Paul, so as to highlight the character of his critical procedures and the probing manner in which he subjects so‐called “spiritual” phenomena and matters to psychological scrutiny. Nietzsche attempts to develop a purely psychologic...

This chapter examines the basis of Nietzsche's campaign against customary morality in Dawn. It consider what problems there are with mounting a successful campaign against morality, and to what extent Nietzsche's campaign against morality leaves room for a positive ethics. The chapter shows that Nietzsche's fundamental concern is that morality as i...

This chapter examines Nietzsche's thinking on the concept of Mitleid and discusses the complexities of translating this concept into English in Dawn. It describes how Nietzsche's critical engagement with this concept is importantly dependent on the role of drives in his wider moral psychology. The chapter also examines the role of mood and social t...

This chapter examines the consequences of Nietzsche's campaign against morality for the pursuit of knowledge in philosophy, and specifically, on values and methods of the German Enlightenment. In Dawn, Nietzsche explores how an experimental approach to knowing and to knowledge involves us in adopting different ways of being toward things in the wor...

This chapter examines how Nietzsche's project in Human, All Too Human sets the scene for him to commence his project in Dawn. It considers how Nietzsche explores a new and modest pathway for humanity and its future development in the volumes comprising Human, All Too Human. In Human, All Too Human, Nietzsche accepts modern free spirits cannot serio...

This chapter discusses how the final aphorism, 575, of Nietszsche's Dawn, presents a positive vision of humanity as future‐oriented and self‐cultivating. It explores how Nietzsche's vision of humanity as future‐oriented and self‐creating is taken up once again by him in his later writings. In the final aphorism Nietzsche's use of the symbolism of f...

This chapter clarifies several of the main aspects of Nietzsche's work on subjectivity, self, and drives in Dawn. It shows how Nietzsche's thinking on subjectivity, the self, and drives in Dawn emerges from his affirmation of the Enlightenment spirit, his hope for a new enlightenment, and his critical engagement with morality. The chapter examines...

This chapter examines Nietzsche's remarks on Epicurus in the earlier middle writings, to provide an interpretative framework through which to clarify Nietzsche's thinking on death in Dawn. It considers some points of continuity between Nietzsche's account of death in Dawn and in his later texts. Nietzsche champions Epicurus as a figure who has soug...

This chapter considers how care of the self is a fundamental part of the task of experimenting with what the ethical, when freed from the constraints of moral fanaticism, might mean. Nietzsche provides a sustained critique of moral fanaticism that carries important implications for contemporary analysis of security. Through his psychological probin...

This article, invited for presentation to the North American Nietzsche Society at the 2020 Pacific Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, is a commentary on Mark Alfano's 2019 monograph, Nietzsche's Moral Psychology. It critically discusses Alfano's synoptic digital humanities approach and examines the efficacy of two aspects o...

I examine how curiosity is grounded in Nietzsche's critique of customary morality. I argue that Nietzsche's positive account of active forgetting is compatible with his treatment of curiosity as a key virtue, and that it can be shown to actively support curiosity. To support the latter claim, I suggest that Nietzschean memorial courtesy can be defi...

In this paper I examine Nietzsche’s experimentalism, treating this as a naturalist feature of his wider philosophical concerns. I focus predominantly on Nietzsche’s presentation of remarks on experimentation in Dawn and in The Gay Science. Through analyzing the role played by the concept of experience within Nietzsche’s experimentalism, I show that...

I raise several concerns with Earp and colleagues' analysis of enhancement through neurochemical modulation of love as a key issue in contemporary neuroethics. These include: (i) strengthening their deflation of medicalization concerns by showing how the objection that love should be left outside of the scope of medicine would directly undermine th...

Focusing on Dawn, I argue that Nietzsche uses mood (Stimmung) to identify, and counter, the entrenched authority of the morality of custom.

As part of an argument calling for improved oversight of health systems research (HSR) that does not fit the clinical ethics review model, Adnan Hyder and colleagues (2014) discuss eight ethical issues, including ethical treatment of vulnerable groups. However, the analysis of vulnerability and minimal risk by Hyder and colleagues is weakened by im...

In his study of nonmedical use of prescription stimulant medication for cognitive enhancement, Scott Vrecko seeks to provide an empirical account of “real-world, everyday” users’ “actual experiences, practices, and meanings,” which he claims is currently lacking within the available bioethics literature (2012, 5). Based on his analysis of qualitati...

In this chapter, I explore the biographical background to Nietzsche's publication of Daybreak, as well as the chief intellectual innovations of his work in this book. In Daybreak, as I show, Nietzsche engages with three main questions, drawing thematic connections between physical and psychological health on the one hand and ethics on the other, in...

I critically discuss the findings of Ellison and Meliker (2011), who challenge anti-SCNT arguments informed by risk to women on the basis that if risk of OHSS is low for women undergoing in vitro fertilization (IVF) and if risk of OHSS is low for healthy women donating oocytes for research purposes, then risk cannot reasonably be used to support co...

In his recent book on the art of power, Diego von Vacano aims to contest traditional political theory understood as the attempt to "realize, on earth, an ideal vision of justice," an attempt that he categorizes as "deontological-normative" (8). His proposed alternative model to traditional political theory so conceived is "aesthetic political theor...

Dear Readers, This issue of JNS brings together four new articles on Nietzsche’ On the of Genealogy of Morals by Dan Conway, Larry Hatab, Chris Janaway, and David Owen. Recently, Conway, Hatab, Janaway, and Owen have each published a new book assessing key philosophical questions and concerns of GM. Janaway’s Beyond Selflessness: Reading Nietzsche’...

Readers might be forgiven raised eyebrows on first noting the title of Julian Young's book. Young's chief and surprising claim is that, even though Nietzsche "rejects the God of Christianity, he is not anti-religious," and that he is "above all a religious thinker" (201), whose atheism only applies in the case of the Christian God (2), and whose ea...

Here I argue that aspects of Nietzsche’s thought may be productively compared with the role played by the concept of ubuntu in talk of cultural renaissance in South Africa. I show that Nietzsche respects and writes for humanity conceived of in a vital sense, thereby imagining a sense of authenticity that may prove significant to talk of cultural re...

I argue that moral intuitions about Nietzsche as an exemplar of practical cruelty can be overturned. My argument is based upon the possibility of abandoning the notion of pure and unmediated passivity as intrinsic to the phenomena of human suffering and of Mitleid, as identified by Nietzsche. I claim that wrongly identifying intrinsic passivity in...

The Journal of Nietzsche Studies 31 (2006) 61-62 "Like most works of great philosophical originality," writes James Williams of Gilles Deleuze's Difference and Repetition (hereafter DR), "the book is as difficult as it is important" (2). This is certainly true of DR, in which Deleuze attempts to prioritize the principle of difference over the princ...

Nietzsche offers us a critique of modern culture as threatened by a nihilistic crisis in values. Philosophy is specifically incorporated into Nietzsche's critique, resulting in the claim that modern philosophy, as well as modern culture, is nihilistic. But why should contemporary philosophers give this view credence? In this paper, I put forward so...