Course Materials 2015/16
Course Booklet for Spring Term 2016
Lecture 6: Nietzsche's Reception of Schopenhauer
The Birth of Tragedy Lecture 1
The Birth of Tragedy Lecture 2
Introduction to Nietzsche's Middle Period
Nietzsche on the Death of God and Nihilism
Nietzsche on Eternal Recurrence: GS 341 and the Cosmology
Nietzsche's 1881 Notes on Eternal Recurrence
Introduction to Nietzsche's Genealogy
Genealogy and the Will to Power
Nietzsche on Bad Conscience and Guilt: GM II
Nietzsche on Christ and Epicurus
Lecture on Zarathustra and Redemption
TEACHING PROGRAMME
Week 1
Introduction to Schopenhauer
Schopenhauer on the World as Will and the Suffering of Life
Reading: The Essential Schopenhauer, chapters 1, 3, 6.
Week 2
Schopenhauer on Art and the Aesthetic
Schopenhauer on Compassion
Reading:Essential Schopenhauer 8, 9, 10
Essential Schopenhauer, 17.
Week 3
Schopenhauer on Mysticism and Asceticism
Schopenhauer on Suicide and Death
Reading: Essential Schopenhauer, 14, 19, 20.
Week 4
Nietzsche on Schopenhauer
Nietzsche on Art and Tragedy
Reading: The Birth of Tragedy (see The Nietzsche Reader)
Week 5
Nietzsche on History and Life
Introduction to the Middle Period Nietzsche
Reading:
On the Utility and Liability of History for Life (see The Nietzsche Reader)
Schopenhauer as Educator & Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks (see The Nietzsche Reader)
Week 6 Reading Week
Week 7
Nietzsche on Naturalising Humanity & the death of God
Nietzsche on the Eternal Return
Reading:
Human, all too Human, Section 1: 'Of First and Last Things'.
The Gay Science, 108-112, 125, 343.
The Gay Science 276-277 & 340-341 (see The Nietzsche Reader)
Week 8
Nietzsche and Genealogy
Bad Conscience and Beyond Guilt
Reading: On the Genealogy of Morality Essay II (see The Nietzsche Reader)
Week 9
Zarathustra's Teachings
Reading: Thus Spoke Zarathustra (see The Nietzsche Reader)
Week 10
Nietzsche on Religion: Christ & Epicurus
Reading: The Anti-Christ (see The Nietzsche Reader)
READINGS
Vandenabeele on Schop and the Sublime
Neill on Schop and Aesthetic Experience
Wicks on Beauty in Schopenhauer
Welchman on Schopenhauer's Moral Philosophy
Welchman on Schopenhauer and Compassion
Han-Pile on the Metaphysics of the Birth of Tragedy
Bambach on Nietzsche and Early essay on History
Cartwright on Schopenhauer and Compassion
von Tevenar on Pity and Compassion
Bambach on the Madman and the Death of God
Nietzsche and Amor Fati (Han-Pile)
Eric Oger as the Test of Eternal Return
Introduction to 'Zarathustra' (Robert Pippin)
Heidegger, Who is Nietzsche's Zarathustra?
Paul Loeb on Time and Power over Time in Zarathustra