Paul S Loeb
Biographic Data
| ID | 4487649 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul S Loeb |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul S |
| FAMILY NAME | Loeb |
| SIGNATURE | LOEB P S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Puget Sound |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2072-7947 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Nietzsche's ‘Thus Spoke Zarathustra': A Critical Guide
Nietzsche regarded Thus Spoke Zarathustra as his most important philosophical contribution because it proposes solutions to the problems and questions he poses in his later books – for example, his cure for the human disposition to vengefulness and his creation of new values as the antidote to nihilism. It is also the only place where he elaborates his concepts of the superhuman and the eternal recurrence of the same. In this Critical Guide, an i…
Nietzsche's 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra': A Critical Guide
A filosofia de Nietzsche é um autorretrato
Segundo Lou Salomé, a filosofia de Nietzsche é essencialmente autobiográfica e é melhor compreendida como um tipo de confissão pessoal, memórias ou autorretrato. Na minha opinião, no entanto, essa abordagem está radicalmente equivocada, e a evidência textual mostra, na verdade, o contrário do que Salomé pensa. Nessas passagens, Nietzsche está na verdade criticando filósofos anteriores por cometeram um erro cognitivo falsificador, quando se projet…
What Does Nietzsche Mean by “the Same” in His Theory of Eternal Recurrence
In this article, I examine the linguistic features in Nietzsche's presentations that have led readers to assume that “the same” means numerical identity. I also evaluate the following argument about personal identity that has been used to support this assumption: if we are not numerically identical to our recurring counterparts, then we have no reason to be concerned about the prospect of reliving our lives and Nietzsche's theory cannot have any …
Nietzsche's Metaphilosophy: The Nature, Method, and Aims of Philosophy
Nietzsche's Metaphilosophy: The Nature, Method, and Aims of Philosophy
Recent Anglophone scholarship has successfully shown that Nietzsche's thought makes important contributions to a wide range of contemporary philosophical debates. In so doing, however, scholarship has lost sight of another important feature of Nietzsche's project, namely his desire to challenge the very conception of philosophy that has been used to assess his merits as a philosopher. In other words, contemporary scholarship has overlooked Nietzs…
Unpublished Fragments from the Period of Thus Spoke Zarathustra
With this latest book in the series, Stanford continues its English-language publication of the famed Colli-Montinari edition of Nietzsche's complete works, which include the philosopher's notebooks and early unpublished writings. Scrupulously edited so as to establish a new standard for the field, each volume includes an Afterword that presents and contextualizes the material therein. This volume provides the first English translation of Nietzsc…
The Colossal Moment in Nietzsche’s Gay Science § 341
Section 341 of The Gay Science (GS 341) is the most famous passage in all of Nietzsche’s writings. In this chapter, I will argue that scholars have misunderstood the pivotal sentence where readers are asked whether they have ever experienced a special moment when they would have ecstatically welcomed their lives’ eternal repetition. According to the standard reading, Nietzsche characterizes this special moment as ‘ungeheuren’ in order to suggest …
The Priestly Slave Revolt in Morality
In this essay I evaluate a new and influential interpretation of Nietzsche’s idea of the slave revolt in morality. This interpretation was first proposed by Bernard Reginster and has since been extended by R. Lanier Anderson and Avery Snelson. Citing textual evidence from Beyond Good and Evil and On the Genealogy of Morality, these scholars have argued for the counterintuitive view that nobles, not slaves, instigated the slave revolt in morality.…
Nietzsche's Futurism
This essay is one of ten contributions to a special editorial feature in The Journal of Nietzsche Studies 49.2 (Autumn 2018), in which authors were invited to address the following questions: What is the future of Nietzsche studies? What are the most pressing questions its scholars should address? What texts and issues demand our urgent attention? And as we turn to these issues, what methodological and interpretive principles should guide us? The…
Will to Power and Panpsychism
Section 36 of Beyond Good and Evil seems to offer a Schopenhauerian demonstration of panpsychist metaphysics. But this cannot be right, because the book's preceding sections presuppose Nietzsche's naturalistic project of de-anthropomorphizing our theories of the universe. Instead, Nietzsche is asking his readers to conceptually isolate the power struggle that they experience among their own psycho-physiological drives and then to imagine, counter…
Eternal Recurrence
This article shows that Nietzsche’s published presentations endorse the cosmological truth of eternal recurrence and that they indicate how belief in this truth can be supported with direct mnemonic evidence as well as a priori scientific proof. It also introduces a refutation of any attempt to construe Nietzsche’s doctrine as a thought experiment that would help to test or promote the affirmation of nonrecurring life.
Zarathustra Hermeneutics
Review Article| April 01 2011 Zarathustra Hermeneutics Paul S. Loeb Paul S. Loeb University of Puget Sound Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Journal of Nietzsche Studies (2011) 41 (1): 94–114. https://doi.org/10.5325/jnietstud.41.1.0094 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Paul S. Loeb; Zarathustra Hermeneutics. The Journal of Nietzsche Studies 1 April 2011;…
The Death of Nietzsche's Zarathustra
In this study of Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Paul S. Loeb proposes a fresh account of the relation between the book's literary and philosophical aspects and argues that the book's narrative is designed to embody and exhibit the truth of eternal recurrence. Loeb shows how Nietzsche constructed a unified and complete plot in which the protagonist dies, experiences a deathbed revelation of his endlessly repeating life, and then returns to hi…
The Thought-Drama of Eternal Recurrence
Book Review| October 01 2007 The Thought-Drama of Eternal Recurrence Zarathustra's Dionysian ModernismGooding-Williams, Robert Paul S. Loeb Paul S. Loeb Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Journal of Nietzsche Studies (2007) 34 (1): 79–95. https://doi.org/10.2307/20717915 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Paul S. Loeb; The Thought-Drama of Eternal Recurrence. The Journal of Nietzsc…
Finding the Ubermensch in Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morality
Focuses on the role played by Übermensch plays in German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche's most important mature work, "On the Genealogy of Morality." Information on the book "Thus Spoke Zarathustra"; Instruction by Nietzsche to think of the analyses in "Beyond Good and Evil," and "On the Genealogy of Morality," as pre-emptively superseded by the philosophy of "Thus Spoke Zarathustra"; Opinion of Nietzsche scholars on "Thus Spoke Zarathustra."
Finding the Übermensch in Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morality
Research Article| October 01 2005 Finding the Übermensch in Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morality Paul S. Loeb Paul S. Loeb Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Journal of Nietzsche Studies (2005) (30): 70–101. https://doi.org/10.2307/20717864 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Paul S. Loeb; Finding the Übermensch in Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morality. The Journal of Nietzsche Studies 1 O…
The Conclusion of Nietzsche’s Zarathustra
The Moment of Tragic Death in Nietzsche’s Dionysian Doctrine of Eternal Recurrence: An Exegesis of Aphorism 341 in The Gay Science
L'A. propose une breve exegese de l'aphorisme 341 du «Gai Savoir» ou Nietzsche presente pour la premiere fois le theme de l'eternel retour qui sera la doctrine fondamentale de «Zarathoustra». Au-dela de l'interpretation prescriptive de l'aphorisme dans le sens d'un enseignement sur l'attitude ideale envers la vie, l'A. defend l'idee selon laquelle l'annonce du demon correspond a l'instant le plus solitaire et le plus ultime de la vie du lecteur, …
Finding the Übermensch in Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morality
Research Article| October 01 2005 Finding the Übermensch in Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morality Paul S. Loeb Paul S. Loeb Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Journal of Nietzsche Studies (2005) (30): 70–101. https://doi.org/10.2307/20717864 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Paul S. Loeb; Finding the Übermensch in Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morality. The Journal of Nietzsche Studies 1 O…
The Moment of Tragic Death in Nietzsche’s Dionysian Doctrine of Eternal Recurrence: An Exegesis of Aphorism 341 in The Gay Science
L'A. propose une breve exegese de l'aphorisme 341 du «Gai Savoir» ou Nietzsche presente pour la premiere fois le theme de l'eternel retour qui sera la doctrine fondamentale de «Zarathoustra». Au-dela de l'interpretation prescriptive de l'aphorisme dans le sens d'un enseignement sur l'attitude ideale envers la vie, l'A. defend l'idee selon laquelle l'annonce du demon correspond a l'instant le plus solitaire et le plus ultime de la vie du lecteur, …
The Conclusion of Nietzsche’s Zarathustra
Finding the Übermensch in Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morality
Research Article| October 01 2005 Finding the Übermensch in Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morality Paul S. Loeb Paul S. Loeb Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Journal of Nietzsche Studies (2005) (30): 70–101. https://doi.org/10.2307/20717864 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Paul S. Loeb; Finding the Übermensch in Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morality. The Journal of Nietzsche Studies 1 O…
Finding the Ubermensch in Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morality
Focuses on the role played by Übermensch plays in German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche's most important mature work, "On the Genealogy of Morality." Information on the book "Thus Spoke Zarathustra"; Instruction by Nietzsche to think of the analyses in "Beyond Good and Evil," and "On the Genealogy of Morality," as pre-emptively superseded by the philosophy of "Thus Spoke Zarathustra"; Opinion of Nietzsche scholars on "Thus Spoke Zarathustra."
The Thought-Drama of Eternal Recurrence
Book Review| October 01 2007 The Thought-Drama of Eternal Recurrence Zarathustra's Dionysian ModernismGooding-Williams, Robert Paul S. Loeb Paul S. Loeb Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Journal of Nietzsche Studies (2007) 34 (1): 79–95. https://doi.org/10.2307/20717915 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Paul S. Loeb; The Thought-Drama of Eternal Recurrence. The Journal of Nietzsc…
The Death of Nietzsche's Zarathustra
In this study of Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Paul S. Loeb proposes a fresh account of the relation between the book's literary and philosophical aspects and argues that the book's narrative is designed to embody and exhibit the truth of eternal recurrence. Loeb shows how Nietzsche constructed a unified and complete plot in which the protagonist dies, experiences a deathbed revelation of his endlessly repeating life, and then returns to hi…
Zarathustra Hermeneutics
Review Article| April 01 2011 Zarathustra Hermeneutics Paul S. Loeb Paul S. Loeb University of Puget Sound Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Journal of Nietzsche Studies (2011) 41 (1): 94–114. https://doi.org/10.5325/jnietstud.41.1.0094 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Paul S. Loeb; Zarathustra Hermeneutics. The Journal of Nietzsche Studies 1 April 2011;…
Eternal Recurrence
This article shows that Nietzsche’s published presentations endorse the cosmological truth of eternal recurrence and that they indicate how belief in this truth can be supported with direct mnemonic evidence as well as a priori scientific proof. It also introduces a refutation of any attempt to construe Nietzsche’s doctrine as a thought experiment that would help to test or promote the affirmation of nonrecurring life.
Will to Power and Panpsychism
Section 36 of Beyond Good and Evil seems to offer a Schopenhauerian demonstration of panpsychist metaphysics. But this cannot be right, because the book's preceding sections presuppose Nietzsche's naturalistic project of de-anthropomorphizing our theories of the universe. Instead, Nietzsche is asking his readers to conceptually isolate the power struggle that they experience among their own psycho-physiological drives and then to imagine, counter…
The Colossal Moment in Nietzsche’s Gay Science § 341
Section 341 of The Gay Science (GS 341) is the most famous passage in all of Nietzsche’s writings. In this chapter, I will argue that scholars have misunderstood the pivotal sentence where readers are asked whether they have ever experienced a special moment when they would have ecstatically welcomed their lives’ eternal repetition. According to the standard reading, Nietzsche characterizes this special moment as ‘ungeheuren’ in order to suggest …
The Priestly Slave Revolt in Morality
In this essay I evaluate a new and influential interpretation of Nietzsche’s idea of the slave revolt in morality. This interpretation was first proposed by Bernard Reginster and has since been extended by R. Lanier Anderson and Avery Snelson. Citing textual evidence from Beyond Good and Evil and On the Genealogy of Morality, these scholars have argued for the counterintuitive view that nobles, not slaves, instigated the slave revolt in morality.…
Nietzsche's Futurism
This essay is one of ten contributions to a special editorial feature in The Journal of Nietzsche Studies 49.2 (Autumn 2018), in which authors were invited to address the following questions: What is the future of Nietzsche studies? What are the most pressing questions its scholars should address? What texts and issues demand our urgent attention? And as we turn to these issues, what methodological and interpretive principles should guide us? The…
Nietzsche's Metaphilosophy: The Nature, Method, and Aims of Philosophy
Nietzsche's Metaphilosophy: The Nature, Method, and Aims of Philosophy
Recent Anglophone scholarship has successfully shown that Nietzsche's thought makes important contributions to a wide range of contemporary philosophical debates. In so doing, however, scholarship has lost sight of another important feature of Nietzsche's project, namely his desire to challenge the very conception of philosophy that has been used to assess his merits as a philosopher. In other words, contemporary scholarship has overlooked Nietzs…
Unpublished Fragments from the Period of Thus Spoke Zarathustra
With this latest book in the series, Stanford continues its English-language publication of the famed Colli-Montinari edition of Nietzsche's complete works, which include the philosopher's notebooks and early unpublished writings. Scrupulously edited so as to establish a new standard for the field, each volume includes an Afterword that presents and contextualizes the material therein. This volume provides the first English translation of Nietzsc…
Nietzsche's ‘Thus Spoke Zarathustra': A Critical Guide
Nietzsche regarded Thus Spoke Zarathustra as his most important philosophical contribution because it proposes solutions to the problems and questions he poses in his later books – for example, his cure for the human disposition to vengefulness and his creation of new values as the antidote to nihilism. It is also the only place where he elaborates his concepts of the superhuman and the eternal recurrence of the same. In this Critical Guide, an i…
Nietzsche's 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra': A Critical Guide
A filosofia de Nietzsche é um autorretrato
Segundo Lou Salomé, a filosofia de Nietzsche é essencialmente autobiográfica e é melhor compreendida como um tipo de confissão pessoal, memórias ou autorretrato. Na minha opinião, no entanto, essa abordagem está radicalmente equivocada, e a evidência textual mostra, na verdade, o contrário do que Salomé pensa. Nessas passagens, Nietzsche está na verdade criticando filósofos anteriores por cometeram um erro cognitivo falsificador, quando se projet…
What Does Nietzsche Mean by “the Same” in His Theory of Eternal Recurrence
In this article, I examine the linguistic features in Nietzsche's presentations that have led readers to assume that “the same” means numerical identity. I also evaluate the following argument about personal identity that has been used to support this assumption: if we are not numerically identical to our recurring counterparts, then we have no reason to be concerned about the prospect of reliving our lives and Nietzsche's theory cannot have any …
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