Aaron Ridley
Biographic Data
| ID | 1055243 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aaron Ridley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aaron |
| FAMILY NAME | Ridley |
| SIGNATURE | RIDLEY A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southampton |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 27 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Nietzsche on art as the good will to appearance
Nietzsche makes a number of remarks that suggest that he thinks that art and truth are antithetical – indeed that he thinks that the value of art lies in its falsification of aspects of the world that would otherwise prove unbearable. ‘Truth is ugly,’ he says: ‘We possess art lest we perish of the truth.’ But the argument of the present paper is that the falsification reading is unsustainable, and that if we attend to the notion of ‘appearance’ r…
A case of enamel renal syndrome from a novel genetic mutation, multidisciplinary management and long-term prognosis
Background: The heterogeneous features of enamel renal syndrome (ERS) make diagnosis and treatment challenging. The main symptoms are disturbed amelogenesis and nephrocalcinosis. Bi-allelic likely pathogenic (LP) or pathogenic (P) variants in FAM20A have been associated with the syndrome since 2012. Affected patients often receive extensive dental treatment because of deviant orofacial morphology. However, knowledge about long-term prognosis and …
Singularities
These essays, six of them appearing here for the first time, address issues concerning the two key singularities that Kant identified in aesthetics: artistic creativity and aesthetic judgement. Ranging from Kant himself to contemporary debates, from song to conceptual art, from ethics to atheism, from function to failure, this collection explores the ways in which the one-off character of creativity and judgement may defy our ordinary expectation…
Nietzsche's the Case of Wagner and Nietzsche Contra Wagner
Wagner's Parsifal
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Nietzsche's Conscience
Aaron Ridley explores Nietzsche's mature ethical thought as expressed in his masterpiece On the Genealogy of Morals . Taking seriously the use that Nietzsche makes of human types, Ridley arranges his book thematically around the six characters who loom largest in that work—the slave, the priest, the philosopher, the artist, the scientist, and the noble. By elucidating what the Genealogy says about these figures, he achieves a persuasive new asses…
The Deed is Everything
Nietzsche is often held to be an extreme sceptic about human agency, keen to debunk it along every dimension. He dismisses the ideas of freedom, autonomy, and morality, we are told, and even the very existence of agents or selves. This book sets out the opposite view. It does so by arguing that Nietzsche was committed to an ‘expressivist’ conception of agency, a conception that contrasts with the ‘empiricist’ orthodoxy and which—partly in virtue …
Nietzsche, Nature, Nurture
Nietzsche claims that we are fated to be as we are. He also claims, however, that we can create ourselves. To many commentators these twin commitments have seemed self‐contradictory or paradoxical. The argument of this paper, by contrast, is that, despite appearances, there is no paradox here, nor even a tension between Nietzsche's two claims. The paper also offers, in the course of undermining a false alternative that is deeply entrenched in the…
Still an Error
Aaron Meskin and Simon Fokt have recently taken issue with our 2012 paper, ‘Relational Theories of Art: the History of an Error’. Here we respond to their objections
Why Ethics and Aesthetics Are Practically the Same
Discussion of the relations between ethics and aesthetics has tended to focus on issues concerning judgement: for example, philosophers have often asked whether, or to what extent, ethical considerations of one sort or another should inform aesthetic verdicts. Much less discussed, however, have been the relations between these two domains in their practical aspects. In this paper, I try to defuse a cluster of reasons for believing that practical …
Introductions to Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) is one of the most important philosophers of the last two hundred years, whose writings, both published and unpublished, have had a formative influence on virtually all aspects of modern culture. This volume offers introductory essays on all of Nietzsche's completed works and also his unpublished notebooks. The essays address such topics as his criticism of morality and Christianity, his doctrines of the will to po…
Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morality
On the Genealogy of Morality is Nietzsche's most influential, provocative, and challenging work of ethics. In this volume of newly commissioned essays, fourteen leading philosophers offer fresh insights into many of the work's central questions: How did our dominant values originate and what functions do they really serve? What future does the concept of 'evil' have - and can it be revalued? What sorts of virtues and ideals does Nietzsche advocat…
Perishing of the Truth
This paper offers an interpretation of Nietzsche’s well known unpublished remark, ‘Truth is ugly. We possess art lest we perish of the truth.’ I argue that it is not helpful to construe this remark as a claim to the effect that art falsifies the truth by, for example, peddling lies or deceptions. Rather, I suggest, the remark should be taken to refer to the various ways in which art can present us with the truth in such a manner that we do not pe…
Nietzsche's Intentions
This chapter argues that there are two distinctive features to the sovereign individual's promise-making. First, that he refuses to hedge his promises about with get-out clauses. Second, that the most characteristic content of his promises are intentions whose success-conditions cannot be specified independently, that cannot, that is, be codified as a set of instructions for successfully executing those intentions. The first feature explains the …
Nietzsche on Art and Freedom
There are passages in Nietzsche that can be read as contributions to the free will/determinism debate. When read in that way, they reveal a fairly amateurish metaphysician with little of real substance or novelty to contribute; and if these readings were apt or perspicuous, it seems to me, they would show that Nietzsche's thoughts about freedom were barely worth pausing over. They would simply confirm the impression—amply bolstered from other qua…
Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Nietzsche on Art
Vi *-Nietzsche and the Re-Evaluation of Values
This paper offers an account of Nietzsche's re-evaluation of values that seeks to satisfy two desiderata, both important if Nietzsche's project is to stand a chance of success. The first is that Nietzsche's re-evaluations must be capable of being understood as authoritative by those whose values are subject to re-evaluation. The second is that Nietzsche's project must not falsify the values being re-evaluated, by, for example, misrepresenting int…
Nietzsche on Language
Guilt Before God, or God Before Guilt? The Second Essay of Nietzsche's Genealogy
Research Article| April 01 2005 Guilt Before God, or God Before Guilt? The Second Essay of Nietzsche's Genealogy Aaron Ridley Aaron Ridley Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Journal of Nietzsche Studies (2005) 29 (1): 35–45. https://doi.org/10.2307/20717850 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Aaron Ridley; Guilt Before God, or God Before Guilt? The Second Essay of Nietzsche's Geneal…
Against Musical Ontology
A Nietzche Round-up
Journal Article Critical Review Get access Nietzsche: the Ethics of an Immoralist. By Peter Berkowitz. ( Harvard UP, 1995. Pp. xiv + 313. Price £10.50.)Infectious Nietzsche. By David Krell. ( Indiana UP, 1996. Pp. xviii + 281. Price £15.50.)Nietzsche, Politics and Modernity. By David Owen. (London: Sage, 1995. Pp. x + 180. Price £13.95.)The Mask of Enlightenment: Nietzsche's Zarathustra. By Stanley Rosen. ( Cambridge UP, 1995. Pp. xviii + 264. Pr…
Nietzsche's conscience
The Philosophy of Medium-Grade Art
Journal Article THE PHILOSOPHY OF MEDIUM-GRADE ART Get access Aaron Ridley Aaron Ridley Department of Philosophy, University of SouthamptonHighfield, Southampton SO 17 1BJ, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 36, Issue 4, October 1996, Pages 413–423, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjaesthetics/36.4.413 Published: 01 October 1996
Music, Value and the Passions
For a century there has been a divergence between what music theorists say music is about and what the ordinary listener actually experiences. Music theory has insisted on a separation of musical experience from the experience of emotions, from the passions. Yet a passionate experience of music is just what most ordinary listeners have. Charting a new course through the minefield of contemporary philosophy of music, Aaron Ridley provides a cohere…
Tragedy and the Tender-Hearted
Aaron Ridley TRAGEDY AND THE TENDER-HEARTED The moral dilemma is a staple ingredient of tragic drama and a frequent precipitator oftragedy. Someone finds himselfin a moral dilemma when he is forced to choose between two courses of action, each of which involves a moral violation. The dilemma is acute if the putative violations are comparable, and it is serious if the violations are grave. In tragic drama we frequently meet characters whose dilemm…
Music, Value and the Passions
For a century there has been a divergence between what music theorists say music is about and what the ordinary listener actually experiences. Music theory has insisted on a separation of musical experience from the experience of emotions, from the passions. Yet a passionate experience of music is just what most ordinary listeners have. Charting a new course through the minefield of contemporary philosophy of music, Aaron Ridley provides a cohere…
Perishing of the Truth
This paper offers an interpretation of Nietzsche’s well known unpublished remark, ‘Truth is ugly. We possess art lest we perish of the truth.’ I argue that it is not helpful to construe this remark as a claim to the effect that art falsifies the truth by, for example, peddling lies or deceptions. Rather, I suggest, the remark should be taken to refer to the various ways in which art can present us with the truth in such a manner that we do not pe…
Against Musical Ontology
Still an Error
Aaron Meskin and Simon Fokt have recently taken issue with our 2012 paper, ‘Relational Theories of Art: the History of an Error’. Here we respond to their objections
Pitiful Responses to Music
Journal Article PITIFUL RESPONSES TO MUSIC Get access Aaron Ridley Aaron Ridley Department of Philosophy and Religion, Ithaca CollegeIthaca, New York 14850, USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 33, Issue 1, January 1993, Pages 72–74, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjaesthetics/33.1.72 Published: 01 January 1993
MR Mew on Music
Journal Article MR MEW ON MUSIC Get access Aaron Ridley Aaron Ridley Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 26, Issue 1, WINTER 1986, Pages 69–70, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjaesthetics/26.1.69 Published: 01 January 1986
Tragedy and the Tender-Hearted
Aaron Ridley TRAGEDY AND THE TENDER-HEARTED The moral dilemma is a staple ingredient of tragic drama and a frequent precipitator oftragedy. Someone finds himselfin a moral dilemma when he is forced to choose between two courses of action, each of which involves a moral violation. The dilemma is acute if the putative violations are comparable, and it is serious if the violations are grave. In tragic drama we frequently meet characters whose dilemm…
Pitiful Responses to Music
Journal Article PITIFUL RESPONSES TO MUSIC Get access Aaron Ridley Aaron Ridley Department of Philosophy and Religion, Ithaca CollegeIthaca, New York 14850, USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 33, Issue 1, January 1993, Pages 72–74, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjaesthetics/33.1.72 Published: 01 January 1993
Music, Value and the Passions
For a century there has been a divergence between what music theorists say music is about and what the ordinary listener actually experiences. Music theory has insisted on a separation of musical experience from the experience of emotions, from the passions. Yet a passionate experience of music is just what most ordinary listeners have. Charting a new course through the minefield of contemporary philosophy of music, Aaron Ridley provides a cohere…
The Philosophy of Medium-Grade Art
Journal Article THE PHILOSOPHY OF MEDIUM-GRADE ART Get access Aaron Ridley Aaron Ridley Department of Philosophy, University of SouthamptonHighfield, Southampton SO 17 1BJ, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 36, Issue 4, October 1996, Pages 413–423, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjaesthetics/36.4.413 Published: 01 October 1996
A Nietzche Round-up
Journal Article Critical Review Get access Nietzsche: the Ethics of an Immoralist. By Peter Berkowitz. ( Harvard UP, 1995. Pp. xiv + 313. Price £10.50.)Infectious Nietzsche. By David Krell. ( Indiana UP, 1996. Pp. xviii + 281. Price £15.50.)Nietzsche, Politics and Modernity. By David Owen. (London: Sage, 1995. Pp. x + 180. Price £13.95.)The Mask of Enlightenment: Nietzsche's Zarathustra. By Stanley Rosen. ( Cambridge UP, 1995. Pp. xviii + 264. Pr…
Nietzsche's conscience
Against Musical Ontology
Vi *-Nietzsche and the Re-Evaluation of Values
This paper offers an account of Nietzsche's re-evaluation of values that seeks to satisfy two desiderata, both important if Nietzsche's project is to stand a chance of success. The first is that Nietzsche's re-evaluations must be capable of being understood as authoritative by those whose values are subject to re-evaluation. The second is that Nietzsche's project must not falsify the values being re-evaluated, by, for example, misrepresenting int…
Nietzsche on Language
Guilt Before God, or God Before Guilt? The Second Essay of Nietzsche's Genealogy
Research Article| April 01 2005 Guilt Before God, or God Before Guilt? The Second Essay of Nietzsche's Genealogy Aaron Ridley Aaron Ridley Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Journal of Nietzsche Studies (2005) 29 (1): 35–45. https://doi.org/10.2307/20717850 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Aaron Ridley; Guilt Before God, or God Before Guilt? The Second Essay of Nietzsche's Geneal…
Nietzsche on Art and Freedom
There are passages in Nietzsche that can be read as contributions to the free will/determinism debate. When read in that way, they reveal a fairly amateurish metaphysician with little of real substance or novelty to contribute; and if these readings were apt or perspicuous, it seems to me, they would show that Nietzsche's thoughts about freedom were barely worth pausing over. They would simply confirm the impression—amply bolstered from other qua…
Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Nietzsche on Art
Nietzsche's Intentions
This chapter argues that there are two distinctive features to the sovereign individual's promise-making. First, that he refuses to hedge his promises about with get-out clauses. Second, that the most characteristic content of his promises are intentions whose success-conditions cannot be specified independently, that cannot, that is, be codified as a set of instructions for successfully executing those intentions. The first feature explains the …
Perishing of the Truth
This paper offers an interpretation of Nietzsche’s well known unpublished remark, ‘Truth is ugly. We possess art lest we perish of the truth.’ I argue that it is not helpful to construe this remark as a claim to the effect that art falsifies the truth by, for example, peddling lies or deceptions. Rather, I suggest, the remark should be taken to refer to the various ways in which art can present us with the truth in such a manner that we do not pe…
Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morality
On the Genealogy of Morality is Nietzsche's most influential, provocative, and challenging work of ethics. In this volume of newly commissioned essays, fourteen leading philosophers offer fresh insights into many of the work's central questions: How did our dominant values originate and what functions do they really serve? What future does the concept of 'evil' have - and can it be revalued? What sorts of virtues and ideals does Nietzsche advocat…
Introductions to Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) is one of the most important philosophers of the last two hundred years, whose writings, both published and unpublished, have had a formative influence on virtually all aspects of modern culture. This volume offers introductory essays on all of Nietzsche's completed works and also his unpublished notebooks. The essays address such topics as his criticism of morality and Christianity, his doctrines of the will to po…
Why Ethics and Aesthetics Are Practically the Same
Discussion of the relations between ethics and aesthetics has tended to focus on issues concerning judgement: for example, philosophers have often asked whether, or to what extent, ethical considerations of one sort or another should inform aesthetic verdicts. Much less discussed, however, have been the relations between these two domains in their practical aspects. In this paper, I try to defuse a cluster of reasons for believing that practical …
Still an Error
Aaron Meskin and Simon Fokt have recently taken issue with our 2012 paper, ‘Relational Theories of Art: the History of an Error’. Here we respond to their objections
Nietzsche, Nature, Nurture
Nietzsche claims that we are fated to be as we are. He also claims, however, that we can create ourselves. To many commentators these twin commitments have seemed self‐contradictory or paradoxical. The argument of this paper, by contrast, is that, despite appearances, there is no paradox here, nor even a tension between Nietzsche's two claims. The paper also offers, in the course of undermining a false alternative that is deeply entrenched in the…
The Deed is Everything
Nietzsche is often held to be an extreme sceptic about human agency, keen to debunk it along every dimension. He dismisses the ideas of freedom, autonomy, and morality, we are told, and even the very existence of agents or selves. This book sets out the opposite view. It does so by arguing that Nietzsche was committed to an ‘expressivist’ conception of agency, a conception that contrasts with the ‘empiricist’ orthodoxy and which—partly in virtue …
Nietzsche's Conscience
Aaron Ridley explores Nietzsche's mature ethical thought as expressed in his masterpiece On the Genealogy of Morals . Taking seriously the use that Nietzsche makes of human types, Ridley arranges his book thematically around the six characters who loom largest in that work—the slave, the priest, the philosopher, the artist, the scientist, and the noble. By elucidating what the Genealogy says about these figures, he achieves a persuasive new asses…
Wagner's Parsifal
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Nietzsche's the Case of Wagner and Nietzsche Contra Wagner
A case of enamel renal syndrome from a novel genetic mutation, multidisciplinary management and long-term prognosis
Background: The heterogeneous features of enamel renal syndrome (ERS) make diagnosis and treatment challenging. The main symptoms are disturbed amelogenesis and nephrocalcinosis. Bi-allelic likely pathogenic (LP) or pathogenic (P) variants in FAM20A have been associated with the syndrome since 2012. Affected patients often receive extensive dental treatment because of deviant orofacial morphology. However, knowledge about long-term prognosis and …
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