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American Nietzsche
Author | : Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780226705811 |
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If you were looking for a philosopher likely to appeal to Americans, Friedrich Nietzsche would be far from your first choice. After all, in his blazing career, Nietzsche took aim at nearly all the foundations of modern American life: Christian morality, the Enlightenment faith in reason, and the idea of human equality. Despite that, for more than a century Nietzsche has been a hugely popular—and surprisingly influential—figure in American thought and culture. In American Nietzsche, Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen delves deeply into Nietzsche's philosophy, and America’s reception of it, to tell the story of his curious appeal. Beginning her account with Ralph Waldo Emerson, whom the seventeen-year-old Nietzsche read fervently, she shows how Nietzsche’s ideas first burst on American shores at the turn of the twentieth century, and how they continued alternately to invigorate and to shock Americans for the century to come. She also delineates the broader intellectual and cultural contexts within which a wide array of commentators—academic and armchair philosophers, theologians and atheists, romantic poets and hard-nosed empiricists, and political ideologues and apostates from the Left and the Right—drew insight and inspiration from Nietzsche’s claims for the death of God, his challenge to universal truth, and his insistence on the interpretive nature of all human thought and beliefs. At the same time, she explores how his image as an iconoclastic immoralist was put to work in American popular culture, making Nietzsche an unlikely posthumous celebrity capable of inspiring both teenagers and scholars alike. A penetrating examination of a powerful but little-explored undercurrent of twentieth-century American thought and culture, American Nietzsche dramatically recasts our understanding of American intellectual life—and puts Nietzsche squarely at its heart.
Nietzsche in American Literature and Thought
Author | : Manfred Pütz |
Publsiher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1571130284 |
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Over the past hundred years Friedrich Nietzsche has proved to be one of the most fascinating and influential European thinkers on the American scene; his ideas, in recent years in particular, have had a huge impact in every field of the humanities. The essays by well-known American and German scholars collected here, commissioned especially for this book, offer for the first time an encompassing survey of American reactions to the German philosopher.
Critical Affinities
Author | : Jacqueline Scott,A. Todd Franklin |
Publsiher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2012-02-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780791481219 |
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Explores convergences between the ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche and African American thought.
Nietzsche and Other Buddhas
Author | : Jason M. Wirth |
Publsiher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 2019-03-04 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780253039729 |
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In Nietzche and Other Buddhas, author Jason M. Wirth brings major East Asian Buddhist thinkers into radical dialogue with key Continental philosophers through a series of exercises that pursue what is traditionally called comparative or intercultural philosophy as he reflects on what makes such exercises possible and intelligible. The primary questions he asks are: How does this particular engagement and confrontation challenge and radicalize what is sometimes called comparative or intercultural philosophy? How does this task reconsider what is meant by philosophy? The confrontations that Wirth sets up between Dogen, Hakuin, Linji, Shinran, Nietzsche, and Deleuze ask readers to think more philosophically and globally about the nature of philosophy in general and comparative philosophy in particular. He opens up a new and challenging space of thought in and between the cutting edges of Western Continental philosophy and East Asian Buddhist practice.
Nietzsche Life as Literature
Author | : Alexander Nehamas |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0674624262 |
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More than eighty years after his death, Nietzsche's writings and his career remain disquieting, disturbing, obscure. His most famous views--the will to power, the eternal recurrence, the bermensch, the master morality--often seem incomprehensible or, worse, repugnant. Yet he remains a thinker of singular importance, a great opponent of Hegel and Kant, and the source of much that is powerful in figures as diverse as Wittgenstein, Derrida, Heidegger, and many recent American philosophers. Alexander Nehamas provides the best possible guide for the perplexed. He reveals the single thread running through Nietzsche's views: his thinking of the world on the model of a literary text, of people as if they were literary characters, and of knowledge and science as if they were literary interpretation. Beyond this, he advances the clarity of the concept of textuality, making explicit some of the forces that hold texts together and so hold us together. Nehamas finally allows us to see that Nietzsche is creating a literary character out of himself, that he is, in effect, playing the role of Plato to his own Socrates. Nehamas discusses a number of opposing views, both American and European, of Nietzsche's texts and general project, and reaches a climactic solving of the main problems of Nietzsche interpretation in a step-by-step argument. In the process he takes up a set of very interesting questions in contemporary philosophy, such as moral relativism and scientific realism. This is a book of considerable breadth and elegance that will appeal to all curious readers of philosophy and literature.
Whitman and Nietzsche
Author | : C. N. Stavrou |
Publsiher | : University of North Carolina S |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2020-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0807880485 |
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This volume will be a great aid to students and scholars alike in American literature, American thought, the history of ideas, and comparative literature. Stavrou draws from the entire bodies of work by Whitman and Nietzsche to explore the parallels in the authors' conceptions of paradox, the totality of life, and solitude among other themes in this exploration of the underlying philosophical similarities of these two great writers of the nineteenth century.
Nietzsche in Anglosaxony
Author | : Patrick Bridgwater |
Publsiher | : Leicester : Leicester University Press |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : UOM:39015011733436 |
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Whitman and Nietzsche A Comparative Study of Their Thought
Author | : Constantine Nicholas STAVROU |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OCLC:504478280 |
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