Grounding the Nietzsche Rhetoric of Earth (Monographien und Texte zur Nietzsche-Forschung, 48)

The words 'grounding', 'rhetoric', and 'earth' represent the book's tripartite structure. Using a philological method Del Caro reveals the 'ecological' Nietzsche whose doctrines are strategies for responsible and creative partnership between humans and earth. The major doctrines are shown to be related to early writings linked to paganism, the quotidian, and the closest things of __Human, All Too Human__. Perspective is shifted from time to place in the eternal recurrence of the same, and from power to empowerment in __the will to power__. This book is the first to comprehensively address the issue of where Nietzsche stands in relation to environment, and it will contribute to the 'greening' of Nietzsche. Ch. I. On Grounding -- 1. Topography Of Nietzsche's Rhetoric -- 2. Grounds Of Philology And Hermeneutics -- 3. Dionysian Used As A Ground -- 4. Intellectual-biographical Account Of Nietzsche's Groundedness -- 5. Modernity's Groundlessness -- 6. Reclamation Of Ground -- Ch. Ii. Immanence -- 1. On Heightening Human Presence Through Reorientation -- 2. How The Earth Becomes A Place Of Opprobrium -- 3. Efforts Toward Immanence : First Steps -- 4. Knowledge As An Impediment To Living -- 5. On Regulating The Instincts To Create Human Being -- 6. Environment, Or What Really Surrounds Us -- 7. New Hygiene On The Basis Of Life -- 8. Immanence Manifested As Hubris, Exploitation, And Criminality -- Ch. Iii. Nietzschean Religiosity -- 1. Grounding Versus Religion Founding -- 2. Paganism's Special Powers Of Affirmation -- 3. Loss Of Religious Feeling -- 4. Dionysian -- 5. Of Apotheosis And Surrogacy -- Ch. Iv. Logic And Limit In The Eternal Recurrence Of The Same -- 1. Finite In Relation To Potential -- 2. Quotidian Nietzsche -- 3. Features And Failings Of The Old Gravity -- 4. New Gravity -- 5. Sameness Of Eternal Recurrence -- Ch. V. Ecumenical Nietzsche -- 1. Right Time And The Only Place -- 2. Cultivating The Ecumenical Disposition -- 3. Lust To Rule, Or The Bestowing Virtue Goes World Wide -- 4. Will To Power In Its Empowering State -- Ch. Vi. Dwelling Creatively Within The Finite -- 1. Conservation Measures For The Spirit -- 2. Conservation Of Negative Traits -- 3. Creating With Forces And States -- 4. Dwelling On The Quality Of Life -- 5. Open -- Ch. Vii. Nietzsche And The Environmental Ethos -- 1. Animals And Human Animals -- 2. Post-humanism Grounded In The Body. By Adrian Del Caro. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [432]-438) And Index. Der Autor prsentiert die erste umfassende Auseinandersetzung mit Nietzsches Einstellung zur Umwelt. Mit philologischen Methoden zeigt Del Caro einen 'kologischen' Nietzsche, dessen Lehren Strategien fr eine verantwortungsvolle und kreative Partnerschaft zwischen Menschen und Erde darstellen. Er weist nach, dass die wichtigsten Lehren in organischer Beziehung zu frhen Schriften stehen, die sich mit Paganismus beschftigen, mit Alltglichem und mit den ersten und letzten Dingen in Menschliches, Allzumenschliches . Dabei verschiebt sich die Perspektive von der Zeit zum Raum in der ewigen Wiederkehr des Gleichen, und von der Macht zur Ermchtigung im Willen zur Macht . Die Abhandlung bietet die erste umfassende Auseinandersetzung mit Nietzsches Einstellung zur Umwelt und ist in erster Beitrag zu einem "grnen Nietzsche". Preface Acknowledgments Contents Abbreviations Chapter I: On Grounding in Relation to Rhetoric and Earth Chapter II: Immanence Chapter III: Nietzschean Religiosity Chapter IV: Logic and Limit in the Eternal Recurrence of the Same Chapter V: The Ecumenical Nietzsche Chapter VI: Dwelling Creatively Within the Finite Chapter VII: Nietzsche and the Environmental Ethos Works Cited Index