Affectivity and philosophy after Spinoza and Nietzsche : making knowledge the most powerful affect /: making knowledge the most powerful affect. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Stuart Pethick.
• Authors: Pethick, Stuart, 1977-
• Contents: Cover ; Half-Title ; Title ; Copyright ; Contents ; Acknowledgements ; Note on Referencing ; Introduction ; 1 Spinoza: Discovering What the Body Can Do ; 1.1 Descartes' cogito and the power of ideas ; 1.2 Spinoza and the affective-imagination ; 1.3 Affectivity: a vacillation of joy and sadness 1.4 The body as duration 1.5 Euphoric and dysphoric bodies ; 1.6 Adequacy of ideas ; 1.7 The signs of the affective-imagination ; 1.8 From general to common notions ; 1.9 Conatus: 'how' things are, not 'what' things are ; 2 Nietzsche and the Sign Language of the Affects 2.1 Interpreting the sign-language of the affects 2.2 Neither substance nor subject ; 2.3 Will as affect ; 2.4 Consciousness and other perspectives ; 2.5 Evoking the multiplicity of the body ; 2.6 Consciousness as communication ; 2.7 Affect as interpretation 2.8 Consciousness and responsibility 2.9 Memory, consciousness and morality ; 3 Will-to-Power: Redeeming the Body from the Ascetic Ideal ; 3.1 Philosophy as the negation of the perspectival ; 3.2 The joy and sadness of Plato's idealism ; 3.3 The eternal return of the 'Something' 3.4 Amor Fati: life after the eternal return 3.5 Redemption from salvation ; 3.6 Wille zur Macht: philosophy as redemption ; 4 Making Knowledge the Most Powerful Affect ; 4.1 Redeeming the past ; 4.1.1 Descartes and philosophy's graphophobia
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke, Hampshire New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (x, 251 pages)
• Subjects: 128.37; Philosophy; Emotions (Philosophy); Affect (Psychology); Philosophy, Modern; Philosophy (General); Linguistics_xPhilosophy; Ethics; Philosophy, modern; PHILOSOPHY -- Movements -- Humanism; Affect (Psychology); Emotions (Philosophy); Philosophy, Modern; Philosophy -- Reference; Philosophy -- Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Philosophy -- History & Surveys -- Modern; Philosophy of language; Ethics & moral philosophy; Western philosophy, from c 1900; Philosophy -- History & Surveys -- General; History of Western philosophy; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137486066; 1137486066; 1349553077; 9781349553075
• Related ISBNs: 9781349553075; 9781137486059; 1137486058
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-244) and index.; Note: Print version record.
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