Kaitlyn Creasy
Biographic Data
| ID | 1524915 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kaitlyn Creasy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kaitlyn |
| FAMILY NAME | Creasy |
| SIGNATURE | CREASY K |
| AFFILIATIONS | California State University, San Bernardino |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1125-1465 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Meaning at the limits of practical agency
Here, I begin by examining cases in which agents steadfastly committed to various projects, people, and values come over time to hold those commitments bloodlessly. While these agents’ commitments arguably give their lives meaning—i.e., they bestow the agents’ lives with a form of meaningfulness (qua purposefulness)—I argue that there is an important form of meaningfulness missing that can’t be secured through mere commitment: meaningfulness as f…
Stubborn social emotions and their harms
Morality and feeling powerful
In recent work, Bernard Reginster argues for an interpretation of the relationship between morality and the affects in Nietzsche which he calls ‘sentimental pragmatism’. According to this view, the values, value judgments, and moral practices agents develop and adopt function to serve specific affective needs. Reginster deploys this interpretation to argue for a functional interpretation of Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of Morality, according to w…
Loneliness and Ressentiment
Loneliness, while a common human experience, is something to which people often respond quite differently. Here, I examine how an individual’s social position, as well as his socialization into a particular cultural milieu, can shape his response to the fact of his loneliness (as well as the features of human existence that loneliness makes salient). Specifically, I argue that in cases where the individual experiencing loneliness has been sociali…
Nietzschean Decadence as Psychic Disunity
This article offers an account of Nietzschean decadence as a psycho-physiological condition characterized by a failure of psychic integration—a failure Nietzsche thinks precludes genuine agency, since the psychic integration the decadent fails to achieve is necessary for agency. As part of this account, this article develops an interpretation of an underexplored but crucial form of decadence: repressed decadence. Exploring this variety of Nietzsc…
Nietzsche on the sociality of emotional experience
In this paper, I explore the sociality of emotional experience in the work of Friedrich Nietzsche. Specifically, I describe four key mechanisms through which an individual's sociocultural context shapes her emotional experience on Nietzsche's view—emotional contagion as habitual affective mimicry, the production of emotions' felt character through the assimilation of dominant social beliefs and norms, affective interpretation à la Christopher Fow…
Nietzsche’s Earth
Nietzsche’s Earth is an ambitious work of expansive scope, which builds on several of Shapiro’s previous articles and contributions to anthologies. Shapiro’s comprehensive interpretation of Nietzsche’s reflections on time and “great politics,” while heavily informed by the thought of Deleuze, Guattari, and Agamben, remains firmly and admirably situated in the historical and ideological contexts in which Nietzsche lived and wrote. The stated goal …
Nietzsche’s Moral Psychology
If you’re a Nietzsche scholar and you haven’t heard of Mark Alfano’s book, you’re not paying attention. Published in 2019, Nietzsche’s Moral Psychology has already been reviewed by leading Nietzsche scholars in numerous venues (including Notre Dame Philosophical Review, Ethics, and Nietzsche-Studien), dissected in a book symposium published in this very journal (Journal of Nietzsche Studies 51.2 [2020]: 241–72), and featured on a popular philosop…
The Problem of Affective Nihilism in Nietzsche
Making Knowledge the Most Powerful Affect
After briefly introducing the problem of affective nihilism in Nietzsche and detailing a variety of its forms, I identify and investigate potential Nietzschean strategies for jump-starting the agency of the affective nihilist and overcoming affective nihilism. By attending to Nietzsche's own practices and recommendations, I locate strategies that might enable the affective nihilist to will and, eventually, to transform herself. The two strategies…
On the Problem of Affective Nihilism
Bernard Reginster has argued that Nietzschean nihilism is best characterized as a “philosophical claim.” This account has inspired a number of critical responses. While Reginster's characterization presents nihilism as a purely cognitive phenomenon, involving particular beliefs about meaning and value, it is just as frequently presented by Nietzsche as a feeling-based phenomenon, a weariness with one's world that comports one negatively toward th…
Naturalizing Heidegger
It seems strange, on first thought, that anyone might look to Nietzsche to found an environmental ethic. In GS, he claims that “Whatever has value in the current world, has it not in itself, from nature—nature is always valueless” (GS 301), and he generally lauds the natural strength and nobility manifested in the will to power's domination and exploitation of resources (BGE 259; KSA 12:7[25]; KSA 12:9[139]). Yet in Naturalizing Heidegger, David …
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Naturalizing Heidegger
It seems strange, on first thought, that anyone might look to Nietzsche to found an environmental ethic. In GS, he claims that “Whatever has value in the current world, has it not in itself, from nature—nature is always valueless” (GS 301), and he generally lauds the natural strength and nobility manifested in the will to power's domination and exploitation of resources (BGE 259; KSA 12:7[25]; KSA 12:9[139]). Yet in Naturalizing Heidegger, David …
On the Problem of Affective Nihilism
Bernard Reginster has argued that Nietzschean nihilism is best characterized as a “philosophical claim.” This account has inspired a number of critical responses. While Reginster's characterization presents nihilism as a purely cognitive phenomenon, involving particular beliefs about meaning and value, it is just as frequently presented by Nietzsche as a feeling-based phenomenon, a weariness with one's world that comports one negatively toward th…
Making Knowledge the Most Powerful Affect
After briefly introducing the problem of affective nihilism in Nietzsche and detailing a variety of its forms, I identify and investigate potential Nietzschean strategies for jump-starting the agency of the affective nihilist and overcoming affective nihilism. By attending to Nietzsche's own practices and recommendations, I locate strategies that might enable the affective nihilist to will and, eventually, to transform herself. The two strategies…
The Problem of Affective Nihilism in Nietzsche
Nietzsche’s Moral Psychology
If you’re a Nietzsche scholar and you haven’t heard of Mark Alfano’s book, you’re not paying attention. Published in 2019, Nietzsche’s Moral Psychology has already been reviewed by leading Nietzsche scholars in numerous venues (including Notre Dame Philosophical Review, Ethics, and Nietzsche-Studien), dissected in a book symposium published in this very journal (Journal of Nietzsche Studies 51.2 [2020]: 241–72), and featured on a popular philosop…
Nietzsche on the sociality of emotional experience
In this paper, I explore the sociality of emotional experience in the work of Friedrich Nietzsche. Specifically, I describe four key mechanisms through which an individual's sociocultural context shapes her emotional experience on Nietzsche's view—emotional contagion as habitual affective mimicry, the production of emotions' felt character through the assimilation of dominant social beliefs and norms, affective interpretation à la Christopher Fow…
Nietzsche’s Earth
Nietzsche’s Earth is an ambitious work of expansive scope, which builds on several of Shapiro’s previous articles and contributions to anthologies. Shapiro’s comprehensive interpretation of Nietzsche’s reflections on time and “great politics,” while heavily informed by the thought of Deleuze, Guattari, and Agamben, remains firmly and admirably situated in the historical and ideological contexts in which Nietzsche lived and wrote. The stated goal …
Nietzschean Decadence as Psychic Disunity
This article offers an account of Nietzschean decadence as a psycho-physiological condition characterized by a failure of psychic integration—a failure Nietzsche thinks precludes genuine agency, since the psychic integration the decadent fails to achieve is necessary for agency. As part of this account, this article develops an interpretation of an underexplored but crucial form of decadence: repressed decadence. Exploring this variety of Nietzsc…
Loneliness and Ressentiment
Loneliness, while a common human experience, is something to which people often respond quite differently. Here, I examine how an individual’s social position, as well as his socialization into a particular cultural milieu, can shape his response to the fact of his loneliness (as well as the features of human existence that loneliness makes salient). Specifically, I argue that in cases where the individual experiencing loneliness has been sociali…
Meaning at the limits of practical agency
Here, I begin by examining cases in which agents steadfastly committed to various projects, people, and values come over time to hold those commitments bloodlessly. While these agents’ commitments arguably give their lives meaning—i.e., they bestow the agents’ lives with a form of meaningfulness (qua purposefulness)—I argue that there is an important form of meaningfulness missing that can’t be secured through mere commitment: meaningfulness as f…
Stubborn social emotions and their harms
Morality and feeling powerful
In recent work, Bernard Reginster argues for an interpretation of the relationship between morality and the affects in Nietzsche which he calls ‘sentimental pragmatism’. According to this view, the values, value judgments, and moral practices agents develop and adopt function to serve specific affective needs. Reginster deploys this interpretation to argue for a functional interpretation of Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of Morality, according to w…
Philosophy (10 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Hegel (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Philosophical Ethics and Theory (7 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Psychoanalysis (6 works) · Feeling (3 works) · Nihilism (3 works) · Physics (3 works)