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01-03-2024 | BOOK REVIEW

Christopher Janaway, Essays on Schopenhauer and Nietzsche: Values and the Will to Life

Author: Julian Young

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“Suicide, judging whether life is or is not worth living,” observes Camus, is “the only serious problem of philosophy.” The source of the problem is suffering, the fact that to live is to suffer. This is the axis around which revolve nearly all the essays in Christopher Janaway’s excellent book. Schopenhauer judges suffering to be an insuperable objection to life, Nietzsche’s mission is to refute his beloved “educator.” …

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Footnotes
1
It is present, too, in Nietzsche’s The Wanderer and His Shadow §61.
 
2
Abbreviations of Nietzsche’s works:
A The Anti-Christ, EH Ecce Homo, TI Twilight of the Idols, all in The Anti-Christ, Ecce Homo, Twilight of the Idols, and Other Writings trans. J. Norman (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005).
BGE Beyond Good and Evil, trans. Judith Norman (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002).
D Daybreak, trans. R. J. Hollingdale (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997).
GM On the Genealogy of Morality, trans. C. Diethe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994).
GS The Gay Science, trans. J. Nauckhoff (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001).
 
3
Julian Young, Friedrich Nietzsche: A Philosophical Biography (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010) p. 393.
 
4
Christopher Janaway Beyond Selflessness: Reading Nietzsche’s Genealogy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007).
 
5
In The Uses of History, Nietzsche endorses the method of “empathy and divination” favored by German historians of his time as the mode of entry to the motives and perspectives of historical actors. But he also emphasizes the demanding nature of the practice of justice since “in it are hidden the highest and rarest virtues” — generosity and self-denial, for instance. Great historiography requires moral excellence. Only the “rarest” of individuals can produce it.
 
Metadata
Title
Christopher Janaway, Essays on Schopenhauer and Nietzsche: Values and the Will to Life
Author
Julian Young
Publication date
01-03-2024
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Society
Print ISSN: 0147-2011
Electronic ISSN: 1936-4725
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-024-00967-9