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  1. Against Nietzsche’s Theory of Affirmation.Tom Stern - 2022 - In Daniel Came, Nietzsche on Morality and the Affirmation of Life. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. pp. 170–192.
    This paper presents affirmation as the central normative category of Nietzsche’s positive ethics. The paper argues in particular for two interpretive claims: first, that from Beyond Good and Evil onwards, we find a new variety of Nietzschean affirmation (‘natural affirmation’), which is crucial to the strategy of his later works; and second, for reasons internal to his own philosophical aims, Nietzsche’s new variety of affirmation is seriously flawed. The author argues for the second claim on the basis that Nietzsche himself (...)
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  2. Against Nietzsche’s '''Theory''' of the Drives.Tom Stern - 2015 - Journal of the American Philosophical Association 1 (1):121--140.
    ABSTRACT ABSTRACT: Nietzsche, we are often told, had an account of 'self' or 'mind' or a 'philosophical psychology', in which what he calls our 'drives' play a highly significant role. This underpins not merely his understanding of mind, in particular, of consciousness and action. but also his positive ethics, be they understood as authenticity, freedom, knowledge, autonomy, self-creation, or power. But Nietzsche did not have anything like a coherent account of 'the drives' according to which the self, the relationship between (...)
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  3. “Some Third Thing”: Nietzsche's Words and the Principle of Charity.Tom Stern - 2016 - Journal of Nietzsche Studies 47 (2):287-302.
    The aim of this paper is to begin a conversation about how we read and write about Nietzsche and, related to this, other figures in the history of philosophy. The principle of charity can appear to be a way to bridge two dif-ferent interpretative goals: getting the meaning of the text right and offering the best philosophy. I argue that the principle of charity is multiply ambiguous along three different dimensions, which I call “unit,” “mode,” and “strength”: consequently, it is (...)
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  4. Nietzsche's Ethics.Thomas Stern - 2019 - Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
    This Element explains Nietzsche's ethics in his late works, from 1886 onwards. The first three sections explain the basics of his ethical theory – its context and presuppositions, its scope and its central tension. The next three sections explore Nietzsche's goals in writing a history of Christian morality, the content of that history, and whether he achieves his goals. The last two sections take a broader look, respectively, at Nietzsche's wider philosophy in light of his ethics and at the prospects (...)
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  5. Proustian Habit.Thomas Stern - 2022 - In Anna Elsner & Thomas Stern, The Proustian Mind. New York, NY: Routledge. pp. 161-175.
    The reader of RTP is granted just a few paragraphs before habit is introduced: Habit! That able but slow-moving arranger who begins by letting our minds sufer for weeks on end in temporary quarters, but whom our mind is nonetheless only too happy to fnd, for without it, reduced to its own devices, it would be powerless to make any room habitable. (SW, 9, translation altered; I 8) Implied is a view of mind: powerless to interfere with habit’s course, but (...)
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  6. Must We Choose between Real Nietzsche and Good Philosophy? A Streitschrift.Tom Stern - 2018 - Journal of Nietzsche Studies 49 (2):277-283.
    A critical comment on methods in Nietzsche scholarship, and some suggestions about how to improve things.
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  7. Nietzsche, Freedom and Writing Lives.Tom Stern - 2009 - Arion 17 (1):85-110.
    Nietzsche writes a great deal about freedom throughout his work, but never more explicitly than in Twiling of the Idols, a book he described as 'my philosophy in a nutshell'. This paper offers an analysis of Nietzsche's conception freedom and the role it plays within Twilight.
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    Proustian Grief.Thomas Stern - 2024 - European Journal of Philosophy:1-16.
    Proust wrote vividly about grief, but he has not been recognised or studied as a philosopher of grief. It is time that he was. For a powerful and compelling philosophy of grief emerges from the pages of his magnum opus. Though philosophical work on Proust has not turned to this theory of grief, philosophers writing about grief have often drawn on Proust, both explicitly and implicitly, without an awareness of an underlying Proustian theory. This paper fills the gap by placing (...)
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  9. Nietzsche's Ethics of Affirmation.Tom Stern - 2019 - In The New Cambridge Companion to Nietzsche. New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. 351-373.
    This chapter looks at Nietzsche's notion of the affirmation of life. It begins with the origins of the concept in Schopenhauer and in the Schopenhauerian philosophy known to Nietzsche. It then examines affirmation in three phases of Nietzsche's writing: early, middle and late. It relates affirmation to other key Nietzschean concepts like the Apollonian and the Dionysian, eternal recurrence, amor fati and will to power.
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  10. Nietzsche, the mask, and the problem of the actor.Tom Stern - 2017 - In The Philosophy of Theatre, Drama and Acting. Rowman & Littlefield International.
    Readers of Nietzsche are not unfamiliar with the thought that his philosophical writings contain numerous at least apparent contradictions. We begin with one of them. On the one hand, Nietzsche takes pride of place in the canonical parade of theatre-haters. Indeed, he himself demands inclusion: ‘I am essentially anti-theatrical’. This antipathy appears to extend to the actor’s ‘inner longing for a role and mask’. On the other hand, Nietzsche is known as an advocate and admirer of the mask: ‘everything profound (...)
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    Back to the Future: Eternal Recurrence and the Death of Socrates.Tom Stern - 2011 - Journal of Nietzsche Studies 41 (1):73-82.
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    Philosophy and Theatre: An Introduction.Tom Stern - 2013 - Routledge.
    The relationship between philosophy and theatre is a central theme in the writings of Plato and Aristotle and of dramatists from Aristophanes to Stoppard. Where Plato argued that playwrights and actors should be banished from the ideal city for their suspect imitations of reality, Aristotle argued that theatre, particularly tragedy, was vital for stimulating our emotions and helping us to understanding ourselves. Despite this rich history the study of philosophy and theatre has been largely overlooked in contemporary philosophy. This is (...)
  13. Introduction: Nietzsche's Life and Works.Tom Stern - 2019 - In The New Cambridge Companion to Nietzsche. New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. 1-21.
  14. History, Nature, and the 'Genetic Fallacy' in The Antichrist's Revaluation of Values.Tom Stern - 2019 - In Daniel Conway, Nietzsche and the Antichrist: Religion, Politics, and Culture in Late Modernity. Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 21-42.
    The central question in this paper is the following: how does Nietzsche use history in his critique of morality? The answer, in sum: interestingly, not how you (i.e. most Nietzsche scholars) think, and not well enough. My focus is on The Antichrist, not his Genealogy of Morality, which is more commonly used to answer this question. And I look, in particular, at Nietzsche’s use of good, contemporary scholarship on the origins of Judaism. The chapter also examines the so-called 'genetic fallacy', (...)
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  15. Hedda Gabler and the Uses of Beauty.Tom Stern - 2018 - In Kristin Gjesdal, Ibsen's Hedda Gabler: Philosophical Perspectives. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 71-91.
  16. VIII-Nietzsche,Amor FatiandThe Gay Science.Tom Stern - 2013 - Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 113 (2pt2):145-162.
    ABSTRACTAmor fati—the love of fate—is one of many Nietzschean terms which seem to point towards a positive ethics, but which appear infrequently and are seldom defined. On a traditional understanding, Nietzsche is asking us to love whatever it is that happens to have happened to us—including all sorts of horrible things. My paper analyses amor fati by looking closely at Nietzsche's most sustained discussion of the concept—in book four of The Gay Science—and at closely related passages in that book. I (...)
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    The Vicissitudes of Nature: From Spinoza to Freud by Richard J. Bernstein (Polity Press, 2023). ISBN 9781509555192.Thomas Stern - 2024 - Philosophy 99 (1):128-132.
  18. Nietzsche on Context and the Individual.Tom Stern - 2008 - Nietzscheforschung 15 (JG):299-315.
    This paper offers a reading of Thus Spoke Zarathustra, arguing that there is a conflict between Zarathustra's hope for something greater (in the form of the Übermensch) and his conception of the eternal recurrence.
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  19. History Plays as History.Tom Stern - 2012 - Philosophy and Literature 36 (2):285-300.
    Now that she is old enough to be taken to boring, so-called “cultural” events by her aging, academic relatives, we have just taken Anya to see a performance of Julius Caesar. When it’s over, we discuss the acting, the poetry, the famous lines. At some point, Anya asks: “I wonder if it happened like that?” Anya has not radically misunderstood what we just watched; she did not, for example, rush down and yell at Caesar that he’d better read that scroll. (...)
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    Lubaina Himid exhibition at Tate Modern.Tom Stern - 2023 - British Journal of Aesthetics 63 (3):435-438.
    In 1819, a ship called Le Rôdeur was carrying enslaved Africans from Bonny Island in modern Nigeria to Guadeloupe. The ship’s crew and its enslaved cargo were s.
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    Examining Online Social Network Use and Its Effect on the Use of Privacy Settings and Profile Disclosure.David Salb & Tziporah Stern - 2015 - Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society 35 (1-2):25-34.
    Online social networks (OSN) have become a part of our daily lives whether they are used for socialization and communication or to promote business interests. OSN have become an important tool for businesses to advertise, create brand awareness, and promote their products and services. Business use of OSN for advertising purposes is highly reliant on targeted ads which display advertisements to OSN users based on their demographics and use of OSN, apps, and websites. Thus, one of the most valuable commodities (...)
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  22. 3.“Zarathustra Is Dead, Long Live Zarathustra!”“Zarathustra Is Dead, Long Live Zarathustra!”(pp. 83-93).Christa Davis Acampora, Joe Ward, Robert Guay, Robbie Duschinsky, Stanley Rosen & Tom Stern - 2011 - Journal of Nietzsche Studies 41 (1).
     
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    The Proustian Mind.Anna Elsner & Thomas Stern (eds.) - 2022 - New York, NY: Routledge.
    When Marcel Proust started to work on In Search of Lost Time in 1908, he wrote this question in his notebook: 'Should I make it a novel, a philosophical study, am I a novelist?' Throughout his famous multi-volume work Proust directly engages several philosophers, and few novels are as thoroughly statured with philosophical themes and concepts as In Search of Lost Time. The Proustian Mind is an outstanding reference source to the rich philosophical range of Proust's work and the first (...)
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    Between text and performance symposium on improvisation and originalism.Jeffrey M. Perl, Philip Gossett, Robert Levin, Jeffrey Kallberg, Steven E. Jones, Martin Puchner, Tiffany Stern, Mark Franko & Roger Moseley - 2011 - Common Knowledge 17 (2):221-230.
    This essay introduces a Common Knowledge symposium on the relationship between texts (for instance, musical scores or dramatic scripts) and performance in the arts by drawing out its implications for the interpretation of publicly consequential texts (such as constitutions, legal statutes, and canon law). Arguing that judges and clerics could learn much from studying the work of Philip Gossett and other practitioners of textual criticism in the arts, the essay suggests that a wider array of choices exists for legal interpretation (...)
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    Forum on Martin Puchner, "The drama of ideas".C. Rozzoni, M. Puchner, D. Kornhaber, L. Cull, T. Stern & M. Harries - 2013 - Lebenswelt: Aesthetics and Philosophy of Experience 3:110-153.
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    How should we interpret dead philosophers?Tom Stern - 2016 - Forum for European Philosophy Blog.
    Tom Stern on the problem with the principle of charity as a way to interpret figures in the history of philosophy.
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    “I have both the note, and dittie about me” songs on the early modern page and stage.Tiffany Stern - 2011 - Common Knowledge 17 (2):306-320.
    Songs in early modern playbooks—printed books of the plays of Shakespeare and other authors—differ from the surrounding dialogue in a number of ways. They are often in italic though the dialogue tends to be in roman lettering; and they are frequently topped with the heading “Song,” self-evident information that is a statement rather than a stage direction. On other occasions, songs are missing from the text altogether, leaving a stranded heading, “Song,” though no words are supplied at all. This article (...)
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  28. Penns positive platonism.Tn Stern - 1971 - Journal of Thought 6 (4):267-274.
     
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    The New Cambridge Companion to Nietzsche.Tom Stern (ed.) - 2019 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
    Friedrich Nietzsche remains one of the most challenging, influential and controversial figures in the history of philosophy. The New Cambridge Companion to Nietzsche provides a comprehensive and up-to-date guide to his most difficult ideas, including the will to power and the affirmation of life, as well as his treatment of truth, science, art and history. An accessible introduction sets out the nineteenth-century background of Nietzsche's life and work. Individual chapters are devoted to significant texts such as The Birth of Tragedy, (...)
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    The Philosophy of Theatre, Drama and Acting.Tom Stern (ed.) - 2017 - Rowman & Littlefield International.
    A collection of new essays on the philosophy of theatre and the philosophy of drama, combining historical perspectives and new directions.
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    The Soul of Nietzsche's 'Beyond Good and Evil', by Maudemarie Clark and David Dudrick.Tom Stern - 2014 - Mind 123 (489):198-203.
    This book review looks closely at the authors' method of interpretation.
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  32. Pensées sur Machiavel.Leo Strauss, Michel-Pierre Edmond & Thomas Stern - 1983 - Revue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 173 (1):97-99.
     
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  33. Moral Psychology with Nietzsche, by Brian Leiter. [REVIEW]Tom Stern - 2021 - Mind 130 (518):661-671.
    Moral Psychology with Nietzsche, by Brian Leiter. Oxford: OUP, 2019. Pp. x + 198.
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  34. Nietzsche on the Decadence and Flourishing of Culture by Andrew Huddleston. [REVIEW]Tom Stern - 2020 - Journal of Nietzsche Studies 51 (1):125-133.
    Andrew Huddleston’s book sets out a vision of Nietzsche as a philosopher of culture. His approach sheds light on some familiar problems and opens up a new way of thinking about cultural criticism. Nietzsche’s concern, he argues, lies with both the instrumental and final value of both individuals and whole cultures. In terms of the Anglophone secondary literature, this places Huddleston between Leiter, who tends to suggest that individuals are all that matters, and Young, who tends to suggest that communities (...)
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  35. Theatre and Philosophy The Art of Theater, by James R. Hamilton. Oxford: Blackwell, 2007, xv + 226 pp. ISBN 978‐1‐4051‐1353‐3 hb £21.99 The Necessity of Theater, by Paul Woodruff. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008, xiii + 257 pp. ISBN 978‐0‐19‐533200‐1 hb £17.99; ISBN 978‐0‐19‐539480‐1 pb £10.99 The Drama of Ideas, by Martin Puchner. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010, xii + 254 pp. ISBN 978‐0‐19‐973032‐2 hb £19.99 Philosophers and Thespians: Thinking Performance, by Freddie Rokem. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2010, xi + 227 pp. ISBN 978‐0‐8047‐6349‐3 hb $60.00; ISBN 978‐0‐8047‐6350‐9 pb $21.95. [REVIEW]Tom Stern - 2013 - European Journal of Philosophy 21 (1):158-167.
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    Nietzsche and The Birth of Tragedy, by Paul RaimondDaniels. Durham, UK: Acumen, 2013, xvi + 240 pp. ISBN 978‐1‐84465‐243‐3 pb £16.99; ISBN 978‐1‐84465‐242‐6 hb £50. [REVIEW]Tom Stern - 2015 - European Journal of Philosophy 23 (S2):17-21.
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    Nandita Biswas Mellamphy, The Three Stigmata of Friedrich Nietzsche: Political Physiology in the Age of Nihilism, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, 157pp., $85.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780230282551. [REVIEW]T. J. Stern - 2011 - Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 1.
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