Klinsky, Matthew (Author)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Schacht, Richard L.
Edition Details: Advisor: Schacht, Richard L.
Physical Details: 282 pp.
Language: English
This project is a critical study of Nietzsche's naturalized "revaluation of all values." An essential feature of Nietzsche's revaluation is his turn toward the complexities of our psycho-physiological functioning as integral to our self- understanding, moving beyond the idealist abstractions that have long dominated both philosophy and popular discourse. Much of my study argues for both the originality and positive impact of Nietzsche's approach; my last chapter, however, argues that Nietzsche's approach unintentionally remains indebted to the past in various ways, and brings with it unintended, and unhealthy, effects in its own right. As the second part of my title suggests, concepts of health and disease, of distress and human flourishing are, for Nietzsche, intrinsically interrelated. Indeed, we can look at various phenomena in the world, and cultural styles in particular, as "modes of pathologizing," as ways of dealing with a restless and self-destabilizing cosmos, which for Nietzsche is best characterized by his lapidary phrase, the "pathos of distance." Nietzsche believes that these various "modes of pathologizing" can be ordered hierarchically, implying that he employs an evaluative standard for this process of rank ordering. As Nietzsche's position on this matter is (intentionally) quite obscure, a major part of my study endeavors to explicate the essential features of his conception of the highest form of life, characterized by a condition he calls the "great health." To this end, a highly nuanced method of interpretation is necessary. As Nietzsche's thought undergoes several dramatic transformations, and as he, in any one period, provides us only with a series of partial perspectives on any given topic, I intend to be carefully attuned to the temporal unfolding of Nietzsche's opus, and to be able to "play off" various passages against one another, in order to reveal his considered position. Finally, I engage in an internal critique of Nietzsche's thought in order to reveal its unintended consequences, often following up on Nietzsche's own doubts and suspicions regarding his work's future.
...MoreDescription On Nietzsche's understanding of human psycho-physiological functioning, health, and disease. Cited in Diss. Abstr. Int. A 68/06 (2007). Pub. no. AAT 3269946.
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