Making Knowledge the Most Powerful Affect
Overcoming Affective Nihilism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12314964 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kaitlyn Creasy (0000-0003-1125-1465, California State University, San Bernardino, corresponding author), Kaitlyn N Creasy (California State University San Bernadino) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 210-232 |
| Publication date | 2019-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Nietzsche Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0968-8005 • E-ISSN: 1538-4594 |
| Publisher | The Pennsylvania State University Press (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5325/jnietstud.50.2.0210 |
| OpenAlex | W2988577603 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
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 I investigate include (1) “living experimentally” by placing oneself in a variety of potentially stimulating climates and contexts and (2) undertaking particular practices of self-knowledge, especially the formation and reflection upon a personal narrative. Both of these strategies employ the production of affect in an individual to potentially energize one's will and stimulate one's drives
Aesthetics · Affect (linguistics · Agency (philosophy · Epistemology · Linguistics · Narrative · Nihilism · Variety (cybernetics · Communication · Computer Science · Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Hegel · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Psychology
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |