Böcker av Babette Babich

Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction Prologue: The Problem of the Philosophy of Science and Nietzsche's Question of Ground The Plan of the Text Chapter 1 Nietzsche's Musical Stylistics: Writing a Philosophy of Science The Hermeneutic Challenge of Nietzsche's Elitism: Style and Interpretive Affinity Philosophic Concinnity: The Spirit of Music and Nietzschean Style The Project of Communication: Self-Deconstruction and Nietzschean Selectivity Nietzsche's Style: A Mechanical Model Chapter 2 Science as Interpretation: The Light of Philology The Question of a Nietzsche-Styled Philosophy of Science Towards a Nietzschean Critique of Science Nietzsche's Perspectivalism: The Spectre ofRelativism and the Spirit of DifferenceTruth, Pragmatism, and Relativism: Realism a nd theReal The Meaning of Critique: Nietzschean Possibilitiesfor Philosophy Nietzsche and Science: The Question of Validity Chapter 3 On the Ecophysiological Ground of Knowledge: Nietzsche's Epistemology The Question of Nietzsche's Epistemology: Critique and Ground The Knower and the Known The Problem of Knowledge in its Ecophysiological Ground The Empirical Basis of Transcendent Knowledge Perspectivalism as Epistemology Multiplicity as Interpretational Truth: The Metaphysical Fiction of an Absolute A Note on the Typology of Science and Philosophy: The will to Power Beyond Truth and Lie Chapter 4 Under the Optics of Art and Life: Nietzsche and Science Resumé: The Ecophysiological Ground of Knowledge Science and Nihilism Reality and Truth: The Domination of Truth Science: Reality and Illusion The Meaning of Nature and Chaos: A Note on Nietzsche's "Chaos sive natura" Reality and Illusion: The Interpretive Dynamic Chapter 5 Nietzsche's Genealogy of Science: Morality and the Values of Modernity The Genealogy of Morals and the Value of Science The Ascetic Ideal: The Cost of Perpetuation Ressentiment : Science and Culture Without Price: The Will to Truth as the Will toLife Science and Inadequacy Duplicity: Science and the Ascetic Ideal The Ascetic Ideal: The Cost of Perpetuation Science as an Aesthetic Achievement: Méconnaissance Vesuvius: "Gefährdete Menschen, fruchtbarer Menschen" Chapter 6 Toward a Perspectival Aesthetics of Truth A Perspectivalist Philosophy of Science A Perspectival Aesthetics of Truth Truth as Illusion The Illusion of Truth and the Question of the Eternal Feminine sContra-Morality?Again The Aesthetics of Illusion Creation and Affirmation Chapter 7 A Dionysian Philosophy: Art in the Light of Life The Eternal Return of the Same: Interpretation and Will Ressentiment and Amor Fati The Perspectival Dominance of Decadence Dionysian Aesthetic Pessimism The Troping of the Eternal Return: An Aposematic Aposiopesis Bibliography Name Index Subject Index

Epicurus provides a recipe for happiness, beginning with the reminder that happiness, at the end of the day, is the absence of suffering. This reflection can be epitomized in the Epicurean tradition in the fourfold list summarized in Philodemus, 1. Don?t fear the gods; 2. Don?t worry about death; 3. What is good is easy to get; 4. What is terrible is easy to endure. This book discusses the simple art of happiness. But is that all it takes? Famously, Epicurus offers a more memorable and personable version: a little garden, some figs, small cheeses, a few friends? This idea of sufficiency suggests that the ingredients of happiness are available to nearly everyone (Epicurus counted women and slaves in his school). But this modest list is also elusive. This, and no more, is the measure of happiness.

This book studies the working efficacy of Leonard Cohen's song Hallelujah in the context of today's network culture. Especially as recorded on YouTube, k.d. lang's interpretation(s) of Cohen's Hallelujah embody, acoustically and visually/viscerally, what Nietzsche named the 'spirit of music'. Today.