Robert Guay
Biographic Data
| ID | 4135326 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Guay |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Guay |
| SIGNATURE | GUAY R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Binghamton University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7717-8075 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Nietzsche and the End of the Ascetic Ideal
This contribution to the Common Knowledge symposium “The Satisfactions of Asceticism” offers an analysis of what Nietzsche calls “the ascetic ideal” along with two accounts of its demise. The analysis explains how ascetic ideals can be valued for their own sake, why they have an expressive character, and why their failure seems inconclusive. The standard account of the demise of the ascetic ideal posits that with time it becomes implausible, leav…
The Will to Nothingness
One might imagine making a rough division between two different modes of modern European philosophy. In one, the way that the world seems to proceed belies the actual ground of things; the task of philosophy is to uncover the sources of our misunderstanding and identify the categories that account for genuinely real processes. The other mode of philosophy questions the determinacy and stability of the categories through which we make sense of the…
“O que é uma crítica da moral?”
Esse artigo sustenta uma interpretação específica da “crítica da moral” nietzschiana a partir do exame de passagens em que Nietzsche utiliza variações dessa expressão, extraindo daí seis critérios que qualquer candidato a crítico deve atender. A partir disso, rejeito diversas interpretações alternativas em favor daquela segundo a qual Nietzsche critica a moral, entendida como um conjunto de práticas, mostrando o significado dessas práticas e as f…
Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morality
A philosophically sophisticated introduction to Nietzsche’s most widely read book, for readers coming to the text – and Nietzsche – for the first time Written by an internationally respected scholar who has worked with Nietzsche for years and knows his work very well Offers close textual analysis of how Nietzsche’s narrative and rhetorical strategies function as philosophical argument Provides a philosophically independent and fresh approach to t…
Hegel and Honneth’s Theoretical Deficit
The accounts of social freedom offered by G. W. F. Hegel and Axel Honneth identify the normative demands on social institutions and explain how individual freedom is realized through rational participation in such institutions. While both offer normative reconstructions of the market economy, public sphere and family, they both derive the norms of educational institutions from education’s role in preparing people for participation in other instit…
Ethics as Social Philosophy
Nietzsche, I argue, did not have an ethical theory traditionally structured around impersonal (or self-interested) considerations with a strangely hierarchical content; his ethical thought, rather, is untraditionally structured around very conventional content—e.g., enmity, love, responsibility—considered relationally. Nietzsche, that is, takes the considerations that emerge out of the ways in which persons relate to each other as the primary sub…
Double review
Genealogy as Immanent Critique
Genealogy and Irony
The thesis of this article is that Nietzsche's use of irony in On the Genealogy of Morals is so pervasive that it cannot be relied upon to report Nietzsche's views, even at the moment of writing, on a historical sequence of events or the causal sources of the phenomena that Nietzsche identifies. I argue, primarily on the basis of textual evidence, that Nietzsche's procedure is neither to reliably report his own views nor to assert the reality of …
Nietzsche’s “On the Genealogy of Morals”
Aesthetics of Appearing
ONE OF the many virtues of Martin Seel's Aesthetics of Appearing is that it lays its cards on the table at the very outset. The final three chapters consist in a series of complex digressions from the main discussion: one on the aesthetic significance of ‘resonating’(p. 139), one organized around the metaphysics of pictures, and one charged with defending the implausible claim that the artistic representation of violence is uniquely capable of re…
Virtue Ethics
Book Review| April 01 2006 Virtue Ethics: A Pluralistic View Virtue Ethics: A Pluralistic ViewSwanton, Christine Robert Guay Robert Guay Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Journal of Nietzsche Studies (2006) 31 (1): 75–77. https://doi.org/10.2307/20717879 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Robert Guay; Virtue Ethics: A Pluralistic View. The Journal of Nietzsche Studies 1 April 2006…
Nietzsche on Freedom
Ethics as Social Philosophy
Nietzsche, I argue, did not have an ethical theory traditionally structured around impersonal (or self-interested) considerations with a strangely hierarchical content; his ethical thought, rather, is untraditionally structured around very conventional content—e.g., enmity, love, responsibility—considered relationally. Nietzsche, that is, takes the considerations that emerge out of the ways in which persons relate to each other as the primary sub…
Genealogy and Irony
The thesis of this article is that Nietzsche's use of irony in On the Genealogy of Morals is so pervasive that it cannot be relied upon to report Nietzsche's views, even at the moment of writing, on a historical sequence of events or the causal sources of the phenomena that Nietzsche identifies. I argue, primarily on the basis of textual evidence, that Nietzsche's procedure is neither to reliably report his own views nor to assert the reality of …
Nietzsche on Freedom
Virtue Ethics
Book Review| April 01 2006 Virtue Ethics: A Pluralistic View Virtue Ethics: A Pluralistic ViewSwanton, Christine Robert Guay Robert Guay Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Journal of Nietzsche Studies (2006) 31 (1): 75–77. https://doi.org/10.2307/20717879 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Robert Guay; Virtue Ethics: A Pluralistic View. The Journal of Nietzsche Studies 1 April 2006…
Aesthetics of Appearing
ONE OF the many virtues of Martin Seel's Aesthetics of Appearing is that it lays its cards on the table at the very outset. The final three chapters consist in a series of complex digressions from the main discussion: one on the aesthetic significance of ‘resonating’(p. 139), one organized around the metaphysics of pictures, and one charged with defending the implausible claim that the artistic representation of violence is uniquely capable of re…
Nietzsche’s “On the Genealogy of Morals”
Genealogy as Immanent Critique
Genealogy and Irony
The thesis of this article is that Nietzsche's use of irony in On the Genealogy of Morals is so pervasive that it cannot be relied upon to report Nietzsche's views, even at the moment of writing, on a historical sequence of events or the causal sources of the phenomena that Nietzsche identifies. I argue, primarily on the basis of textual evidence, that Nietzsche's procedure is neither to reliably report his own views nor to assert the reality of …
Double review
Ethics as Social Philosophy
Nietzsche, I argue, did not have an ethical theory traditionally structured around impersonal (or self-interested) considerations with a strangely hierarchical content; his ethical thought, rather, is untraditionally structured around very conventional content—e.g., enmity, love, responsibility—considered relationally. Nietzsche, that is, takes the considerations that emerge out of the ways in which persons relate to each other as the primary sub…
Hegel and Honneth’s Theoretical Deficit
The accounts of social freedom offered by G. W. F. Hegel and Axel Honneth identify the normative demands on social institutions and explain how individual freedom is realized through rational participation in such institutions. While both offer normative reconstructions of the market economy, public sphere and family, they both derive the norms of educational institutions from education’s role in preparing people for participation in other instit…
Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morality
A philosophically sophisticated introduction to Nietzsche’s most widely read book, for readers coming to the text – and Nietzsche – for the first time Written by an internationally respected scholar who has worked with Nietzsche for years and knows his work very well Offers close textual analysis of how Nietzsche’s narrative and rhetorical strategies function as philosophical argument Provides a philosophically independent and fresh approach to t…
“O que é uma crítica da moral?”
Esse artigo sustenta uma interpretação específica da “crítica da moral” nietzschiana a partir do exame de passagens em que Nietzsche utiliza variações dessa expressão, extraindo daí seis critérios que qualquer candidato a crítico deve atender. A partir disso, rejeito diversas interpretações alternativas em favor daquela segundo a qual Nietzsche critica a moral, entendida como um conjunto de práticas, mostrando o significado dessas práticas e as f…
The Will to Nothingness
One might imagine making a rough division between two different modes of modern European philosophy. In one, the way that the world seems to proceed belies the actual ground of things; the task of philosophy is to uncover the sources of our misunderstanding and identify the categories that account for genuinely real processes. The other mode of philosophy questions the determinacy and stability of the categories through which we make sense of the…
Nietzsche and the End of the Ascetic Ideal
This contribution to the Common Knowledge symposium “The Satisfactions of Asceticism” offers an analysis of what Nietzsche calls “the ascetic ideal” along with two accounts of its demise. The analysis explains how ascetic ideals can be valued for their own sake, why they have an expressive character, and why their failure seems inconclusive. The standard account of the demise of the ascetic ideal posits that with time it becomes implausible, leav…
Philosophy (11 works) · Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Hegel (10 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Art (5 works) · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism (5 works) · History (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Genealogy (3 works) · Morality (3 works)