Will to Nothingness : An Essay on Nietzsche's on the Genealogy of Morality, H...

Description: Will to Nothingness : An Essay on Nietzsche's on the Genealogy of Morality, Hardcover by Reginster, Bernard, ISBN 0198868901, ISBN-13 9780198868903, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US On the Genealogy of Morality is Nietzsches most influential book but it continues to puzzle, not least in its central claim: the invention of Christian morality is an act of revenge, and it is as such that it should arouse critical suspicion. In The Will to Nothingness, Bernard Reginster
makes a fresh attempt at understanding this claim and its significance, inspired by Nietzsches claim that moralities are signs or symptoms of the affective states of moral agents. The relation between morality and affects is envisioned as functional, rather than expressive: the genealogy of
Christian morality aims to reveal how it is well suited to serve certain emotional needs.

One particular emotional need, manifested in the affect of ressentiment, plays a prominent role in the analysis of Christian morality. This is the need to have the world reflect ones will, which is rooted in a special drive toward power, or toward bending the world to ones will. Revenge is
plausibly understood as aiming to bolster or restore power, and the invention of new values is a particular way to do so: by altering the agents will (her values), it alters what counts as power for her. By revealing how it is well suited to play such a functional role in the emotional economy of
moral agents, the genealogical inquiries arouse critical suspicion toward Christian morality. The use of this moral outlook as an instrument of revenge is problematic not because it is immoral, but because it is functionally self-undermining.

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