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The Secret of Life: Explorations of Nietzsche’s Conception of Life as Will to Power

In: Research in Phenomenology
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William McNeill DePaul University

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01 Jan 2013
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Abstract

The essay presents a series of explorations of Nietzsche’s conception of life as will to power, relying extensively on fragments from Nietzsche’s later notebooks, but also commenting on key selections from Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, and On the Genealogy of Morality. I argue that Nietzsche understands himself to be engaged in a unique kind of phenomenology of the body, and that will to power, as the primal force of life, should be understood not only as a creative and unifying life-force, but equally as a force of differentiation and obliteration.

Title:
The Secret of Life: Explorations of Nietzsche’s Conception of Life as Will to Power
Article Type:
Research Article
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1163/15691640-12341253
Language:
English
Pages:
177–192
Keywords:
Nietzsche; life; will to power; force; body; phenomenology
In:
Research in Phenomenology
In:
Volume 43: Issue 2
Publisher:
Brill
E-ISSN:
1569-1640
Print ISSN:
0085-5553
Subjects:
Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy, Continental Philosophy, Epistemology & Metaphysics

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