The Agonist Pub Date : 2023-12-04 DOI: 10.33182/agon.v17i2.3076

Talha Işsevenler

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Nietzsche and the Politics of Nihilism 尼采与虚无主义政治学

The Agonist Pub Date : 2023-12-04 DOI: 10.33182/agon.v17i2.3078

Kyle Pooley

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Translating Nietzsche's Atheism(s) 翻译尼采的无神论

The Agonist Pub Date : 2023-12-04 DOI: 10.33182/agon.v17i2.2901

Dirk Johnson

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Donovan Miyasaki, Nietzsche’s Immoralism. Politics as First Philosophy & Donovan Miyasaki, Politics After Morality. Toward a Nietzschean Left. Donovan Miyasaki, Nietzsche's Immoralism.作为第一哲学的政治》和 Donovan Miyasaki，《道德之后的政治》。走向尼采左派。

The Agonist Pub Date : 2023-12-04 DOI: 10.33182/agon.v17i2.3199

Thomas Steinmann

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Nihilism Beyond Margins: Towards A Reorganization of Forces 超越边缘的虚无主义：走向力量重组

The Agonist Pub Date : 2023-12-04 DOI: 10.33182/agon.v17i2.3172

Marinete Araujo da Silva Fobister

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On the Love of All and None 论所有人和没有人的爱

The Agonist Pub Date : 2023-05-31 DOI: 10.33182/agon.v17i1.3018

Jaime McCaffrey, Tore Levander

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Amor Fati

The Agonist Pub Date : 2023-05-31 DOI: 10.4135/9781446220771.n15

Dana Trusso

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Yunus Tuncel, Nietzsche on Human Emotions 尤努斯·顿塞尔，《尼采论人类情感

The Agonist Pub Date : 2023-05-31 DOI: 10.33182/agon.v17i1.2966

Yunus Tuncel

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Uses and Abuses of Modern Pornography: Pornography as Aesthetic, Ascetic, Anesthetic 现代色情的使用与滥用:作为审美、禁欲、麻醉的色情

The Agonist Pub Date : 2023-05-31 DOI: 10.33182/agon.v17i1.3017

Ben Muratovic

{"title":"Uses and Abuses of Modern Pornography: Pornography as Aesthetic, Ascetic, Anesthetic","authors":"Ben Muratovic","doi":"10.33182/agon.v17i1.3017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33182/agon.v17i1.3017","url":null,"abstract":"How should we evaluate the modern day use and abuse of pornography? Modern day video pornography has the hallmarks of film and cinema industry (lights, cameras, sets, actors, etc), but common sentiment is that it doesn’t deserve the status of being called \"Art\". An exploitative media that gets a bad review may get labeled as “trauma” or “torture porn.” Calling something pornographic indicates that the creators of a media had poor taste. In the section titled “On the Sublime ones” of Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Z II), [1] Nietzsche states “But all life is disputing of taste and tasting!” Nietzsche concerns over taste are directly related to his effort to maximize the role of aesthetic judgments in all parts of life. As the early Nietzsche states in the Birth of Tragedy (BT §5) “…the existence of the world is justified only as an aesthetic phenomenon.” [2]\u0000A Nietzschean investigation into the purpose of modern pornography requires a perspectivist and not a moral assessment. Kant’s Critique of Judgement reflected on the topics of both aesthetics and teleology, suggesting the question of aesthetics must include a concern over purposiveness. Thus, what is the purpose of pornography? How does it juxtapose to the actual act of sex itself? To Erotic art? Is it akin to the violent Ancient Greek Doric Frieze? Lastly, in a civilization where pornography is of easy access to all, does this take away the prevalence of sex itself? This paper attempts a Nietzschean investigation on the subject and will touch on the themes of gender, domination, sublimation, and the consumption of media.\u0000 \u0000\u0000","PeriodicalId":280178,"journal":{"name":"The Agonist","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121988902","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Thomas H. Brobjer, Nietzsche's Ecce Homo and the Revaluation of All Values: Dionysian Versus Christian Values 托马斯·h·布罗布耶:《尼采的《你是人》与一切价值的重估:酒神与基督教价值的对比》

The Agonist Pub Date : 2023-05-31 DOI: 10.33182/agon.v17i1.3001

Thomas Steinbuch

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