Nietzsche and social change
This thesis develops a radical Nietzschean approach to social change. Its subject area is how social entities â for example, institutions, practices, norms, values, cultures â are reproduced or transformed. Its ethical and political starting point is one of resistance to capitalism. Its philosophical starting point is the work of Friedrich Nietzsche. Its approach is eclectic, reading Nietzsche with post-Nietzschean philosophy and work in developmental psychology, evolutionary biology, anthropology, feminist theory, and more. The thesis starts with Nietzsche's conception of history in On the Genealogy of Morals. Nietzsche sees social transformation resulting from multiple contingent encounters of bodies with diverse âmodes of valuationâ and forms of life. This view opposes the universalist approach Nietzsche calls âEnglish Genealogyâ, which runs from Hume through Darwin down to contemporary liberal âcultural evolutionâ theories. The middle part of the thesis investigates Nietzsche's views on social processes following two main strands: the âpsycho-physiologyâ of sub-individual drives he develops in Dawn and other texts of the âfree spiritâ period; and his encounter with Darwinism. These
Sokolov, Dariush
B Philosophy (General)
Nietzsche and social change. This thesis develops a radical Nietzschean approach to social change. Its subject area is how social entities â for example, institutions, practices, norms, values, cultures â are reproduced or transformed. Its ethical and political starting point is one of resistance to capitalism. Its philosophical starting point is the work of Friedrich Nietzsche. Its approach is eclectic, reading Nietzsche with post-Nietzschean philosophy and work in developmental psychology, evolutionary biology, anthropology, feminist theory, and more. The thesis starts with Nietzsche's conception of history in On the Genealogy of Morals. Nietzsche sees social transformation resulting from multiple contingent encounters of bodies with diverse âmodes of valuationâ and forms of life. This view opposes the universalist approach Nietzsche calls âEnglish Genealogyâ, which runs from Hume through Darwin down to contemporary liberal âcultural evolutionâ theories. The middle part of the thesis investigates Nietzsche's views on social processes following two main strands: the âpsycho-physiologyâ of sub-individual drives he develops in Dawn and other texts of the âfree spiritâ period; and his encounter with Darwinism. These
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