Download or read book Nietzsche and Modern Times written by Laurence Lampert and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This major work by Laurence Lampert provides a new interpretation of modern philosophy by developing Nietzsche's view that genuine philosophers set out to determine the direction of culture through their ideas and that they conceal the radical nature of their thought by their esoteric style. From this Nietzschean perspective, Francis Bacon and René Descartes can be considered the founders of modernity. Lampert argues that Bacon's positive claims for science aimed to destroy the dominance of Christianity. Descartes continued Bacon's radical program while providing it with the mathematical physics required for its success. Far from being solely an epistemological and metaphysical thinker, says Lampert, Descartes was a master writer whose comic ridicule helped bring down the Church to which he paid lip service. Both Bacon and Descartes used the Platonic art of dissimulation to achieve their ends by making their revolutionary aims appear compatible with Christianity. Once we recognize Bacon and Descartes as legislators of modern times in a specifically Nietzschean sense, we can also see Nietzsche in a new way--as the first thinker to have understood modern times and transcended it in a postmodern worldview. According to Lampert, Nietzsche provides a new foundation for culture, a joyous science that reveals the grandeur and purposeless play of the cosmic whole and yet avoids enervating despair or destructive, dogmatic belief.
Download or read book Get Over Yourself written by Patrick West and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many books have sought to introduce the writings of the infamous and influential philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche, but Get Over Yourself puts matters the other way round. Rather than simply explaining his thought, it instead asks: what would Nietzsche make of us? What would he think of our 21st-century, digital age? In our time of identity politics, therapy culture, 'safe spaces', religious fundamentalism, virtue-signalling, Twitterstorms, public emoting, 'dumbing-down', digital addiction and the politics of envy, the book introduces Nietzsche by putting the man in our shoes. Get Over Yourself both uses Nietzsche's philosophy to understand our society, and takes our society to explain his philosophy.
Download or read book Untimely Reflections written by Friedrich Nietzsche and published by Livraria Press. This book was released on with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Untimely Reflections" (Original German manuscript: Unzeitgemäße Betrachtungen) is a collection of four essays in which Nietzsche critiques various aspects of contemporary culture and society, including education, history, and nationalism. He calls for a break from the conventional attitudes and values, urging individuals to think independently and embrace a more "real" way of life. These essays were part of Nietzsche's critique of German culture at the time, targeting various figures and cultural perspectives prevalent during his era: 1. "David Strauss: The Confessor and the Writer" (1873) - Nietzsche criticizes the German culture of his time, especially the writer David Strauss and his book "The Old and the New Faith: A Confession." This essay was Nietzsche's response to what he saw as the superficial and complacent nature of German intellectual culture after the Franco-Prussian War. 2. "On the Use and Abuse of History for Life" (1874) - This essay discusses the problem of historical knowledge and its relationship to the health and vitality of human life. Nietzsche argues that an excessive historical consciousness, which he sees as prevalent among his contemporaries, paralyzes living culture and its creative power. 3. "Schopenhauer as Educator" (1874) - Nietzsche articulates his admiration for Arthur Schopenhauer and presents him as a model for revitalizing the German cultural landscape. This essay reflects Nietzsche's reflections on the role of great individuals in the cultivation of culture. 4. "Richard Wagner in Bayreuth" (1876) - This essay is an analysis and celebration of Richard Wagner, whom Nietzsche deeply admired at the time. It examines Wagner's cultural significance and his efforts to revive German culture through his Bayreuth Festival. These four essays, first published separately, were published by Nietzsche as "Untimely Reflections" together as a collection in 1876. This included all four essays that Nietzsche had written between 1873 and 1876, gathered under the series titled "Unzeitgemäße Betrachtungen". This is a new 2024 translation from this original 1876 (first published in 1896) German manuscript containing a new Afterword by the Translator, a timeline of Nietzsche's life and works, an index with descriptions of his core concepts and summaries of his complete body of works. This translation is designed to allow the armchair philosopher to engage deeply with Nietzsche's works without having to be a full-time Academic. The language is modern and clean, with simplified sentence structures and diction to make Nietzsche's complex language and arguments as accessible as possible. This Reader's Edition also contains extra material that amplifies the manuscript with autobiographical, historical and linguistic context. This provides the reader a holistic view of this very enigmatic philosopher as both an introduction and an exploration of Nietzsche's works; from his general understanding of his philosophic project to an exploration of the depths of his metaphysics and unique contributions. This edition contains: • An Afterword by the Translator on the history, impact and intellectual legacy of Nietzsche • Translation notes on the original German, Latin and Greek manuscript • An index of Philosophical concepts used by Nietzsche with a focus on Existentialism and Phenomenology • A chronological list of Nietzsche's entire body of works • A detailed timeline of Nietzsche's life and works
Download or read book Human All Too Human written by Friedrich Nietzsche and published by BEYOND BOOKS HUB. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human, All Too Human by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche was first published in 1878. It is a collection of aphorisms, ranging in length from a few words to a few pages. A second (Miscellaneous Maxims And Opinions) and a third part (The Wanderer And His Shadow) were published over the next couple of years and were first published as a three volume set. This was changed to a 2 volume edition in 1886. This edition includes all three parts. The first book is split into nine sections: Of First and Last Things (dealing with the subject of metaphysics); On the History of Moral Feelings (discusses and challenges the idea of Christian good and evil); From the Soul of Artists and Writers (where Nietzsche dismisses the concept of divine inspiration); Signs of Higher and Lower Culture (in which he criticises Charles Darwin and the survival of the fittest theory); Man in Society and Women and Child (discusses the nature of men, women, and children); Man Alone with Himself (a collection of mostly short aphorisms). Like most of his books, Human, All Too Human didn't sell well during Nietzsche's lifetime - only selling 120 copies when it was first printed. Another fact about the book is how it was taken on board by an archivist and Hitler supporter called Max Oehler, who saw it as evidence of Nietzsche's support for anti-Semitism, which Nietzsche actually wrote against in other works such as Thus Spoke Zarathustra and The Antichrist.
Download or read book Nietzsche and His Philosophy written by Thilly Frank and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-04-19 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with the philosophy of Nietzsche whose work has exerted a profound influence on western philosophy and modern intellectual history; and presents his relation to his time and some characteristics of his thinking. Our present age regards everything as the product of evolution, it tells us that we are what we are because our ancestors were what they were, that we do what we do because they did what they did; it traces the development of the thinker, the poet, the statesman, of law, morality, religion, art, literature and science; it justifies our conceptions and institutions on the ground that they have grown from simple beginnings and will develop in their own good time into more and more complex and perfect forms. The individual is the child of the past, in him our grandfathers are speaking to the present, in him their ideals and values are asserting themselves; they are the laws of the present, he is their mouthpiece. Against these conceptions and values a man of our time, Friedrich Nietzsche, has uttered his everlasting No. "Man alone," he says," finds himself so hard to bear. That is because he carries so many strange things upon his shoulders. Like the camel he kneels down and allows a heavy load to be placed on his back. Particularly, the strong, burden-bearing man, in whom reverence dwells: too many heavy strange words and values he loads upon his back-and now life seems to him a desert." He breaks the old tables of values and demands that new ones be set up in their stead. He is not content with studying the conditions that gave rise to the ideals which we now uphold; indeed, he regards the historic sense as the cause of the weakness of our times. We must cease feeling that we are epigoni. It is the function of the philosopher, in his opinion, to create new values, new ideals, a new civilization. "The real philosophers," he declares, "are commanders and legislators; they say: Thus shall it be; they alone determine the whither and wherefore of man; with creative hands they touch the future - their knowing is creation, their creation is legislation, their will for truth is - will for power."
Download or read book Nietzsche His Life and Works written by Anthony M. Ludovici and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-29 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this work, Ludovici presents a solid, concise introduction to Nietzsche. It doesn't just represent the life and works of Nietsche but also provides a reader with a short but strong analysis of the philosopher and his works.
Download or read book Nietzsche Contra Democracy written by Fredrick Appel and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Apolitical, amoral, an aesthete whose writings point toward some form of liberation: this is the figure who emerges from most recent scholarship on Friedrich Nietzsche. The Nietzsche whom Fredrick Appel portrays is of an altogether different character, one whose philosophical position is inseparable from a deep commitment to a hierarchical politics. Nietzsche contra Democracy gives us a thinker who, disdainful of the "petty politics" of his time, attempts to lay the normative foundations for a modern political alternative to democracy. Appel shows how Nietzsche's writings evoke the prospect of a culturally revitalized Europe in which the herdlike majority and its values are put in their proper place: under the control of a new, self-aware, and thoroughly modern aristocratic caste whose sole concern is its own flourishing.In chapters devoted to Nietzsche's little discussed views on solitude, friendship, sociability, families, and breeding, this book brings Nietzsche into conversation with Aristotelian and Stoic strains of thought. More than a healthy jolt to Nietzsche scholarship, Nietzsche contra Democracy also challenges political theory to articulate and defend the moral consensus undergirding democracy.
Download or read book Nietzsche The Anti Christ Ecce Homo Twilight of the Idols written by Aaron Ridley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-10-27 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nietzsche's late works are brilliant and uncompromising, and stand as monuments to his lucidity, rigor, and style. This volume combines, for the first time in English, five of these works: The Antichrist, Ecce Homo, Twilight of the Idols, Nietzsche contra Wagner, and The Case of Wagner. Nietzsche takes on some of his greatest adversaries in these works: traditional religion, contemporary culture, and above all, his one-time hero, Richard Wagner. His writing is simultaneously critical and creative, revealing his alternative philosophical vision, which, after more than a hundred years, still retains its audacious originality.
Download or read book The Philosophy of Nietzsche written by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 1130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reinterpreting Modern Culture written by Paul van Tongeren and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Attempts to elucidate the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche through the experience of his writings. After a chapter devoted to Nietzsche's style and the proper way to read the philosopher, chapters focus separately on his thoughts on knowledge and reality, morality and politics, and religion. Each chapter presents fairly lengthy selections from Nietzsche's works (in both German and English) and then proceeds to comment on the texts with the help of additional brief selections. Paper edition available (1-55753-157-9), $24.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
Download or read book The Will to Power Part I written by Friedrich Nietzsche and published by Livraria Press. This book was released on with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Der Wille zur Macht" (The Will to Power) is a posthumously published collection of Nietzsche's notes and unpublished writings, organized by his sister Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche. Although Nietzsche did compile the notes and drafts titled "The Will to Power", it was not published during his lifetime. Instead, it was posthumously edited and published by his sister, Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche, and Peter Gast in 1901. Due to the enormous size of the document, this was published in two different parts; this is Part I. Nietzsche's sister introduces the document, explaining the origins and development of Nietzsche's thoughts leading up to "The Will to Power. She describes how Nietzsche's ideas evolved over time, influenced by his earlier works such as "Thus Spoke Zarathustra. She shares personal anecdotes and reflections on how Nietzsche's experiences, especially during times of war, shaped his philosophy. Nietzsche discusses the origins of nihilism, focusing on the moral interpretation of existence and the decline of Christianity. He critiques how modern science, politics, and history contribute to the nihilistic worldview. Nietzsche defines nihilism as the devaluation of the highest values, where traditional beliefs and goals lose their meaning. He examines how nihilism manifests as both a philosophical position and a psychological state. This is a new 2024 translation from this original 1884 German manuscript (first manuscript published in 1901) and contains a new Afterword by the Translator, a timeline of Nietzsche's life and works, an index with descriptions of his core concepts and summaries of his complete body of works. This extra material amplifies upon the text to give the reader a holistic view of this enigmatic philosopher. This translation is designed to allow the armchair philosopher to engage deeply with Nietzsche's works without having to be a full-time Academic. The language is modern and clean, with simplified sentence structures and diction to make Nietzsche's complex language and arguments as accessible as possible. This Reader's Edition also contains extra material that amplifies the manuscript with autobiographical, historical and linguistic context. This provides the reader a holistic view of this very enigmatic philosopher as both an introduction and an exploration of Nietzsche's works; from his general understanding of his philosophic project to an exploration of the depths of his metaphysics and unique contributions. This edition contains: • An Afterword by the Translator on the history, impact and intellectual legacy of Nietzsche • Translation notes on the original German, Latin and Greek manuscript • An index of Philosophical concepts used by Nietzsche with a focus on Existentialism and Phenomenology • A chronological list of Nietzsche's entire body of works • A detailed timeline of Nietzsche's life and works
Download or read book Nietzsche s New Seas written by Michael Allen Gillespie and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nietzsche's New Seas makes available for the first time in English a representative sample of the best recent Nietzsche scholarship from Germany, France, and the United States. Michael Allen Gillespie and Tracy B. Strong have brought together scholars from a variety of disciplines—philosophy, history, literary criticism, and musicology—and from schools of thought that differ both methodologically and ideologically. The contributors—Karsten Harries, Robert Pippin, Eugen Fink, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Kurt Paul Janz, Sarah Kofman, Jean-Michel Rey, and the editors themselves—take a new approach to Nietzsche, one that begins with the claim that his enigmatic utterances can best be understood by examining the style or structure of his thought.
Download or read book Time and Becoming in Nietzsche s Thought written by Robin Small and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-03-11 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Puzzles about time - about past, present and future, and the nature of becoming - have concerned philosophers from the ancient Greeks to the present day. Yet few have been as radical in their thinking as Friedrich Nietzsche. Time and Becoming in Nietzsche's Thought explores Nietzsche's approach to temporality, showing that his metaphorical and literary presentations lend themselves, in surprising detail, to the debates that have engaged other thinkers. Like Heraclitus, Nietzsche is a philosopher of becoming who sees reality as a continual flow of change. Time is an interpretation of becoming, designed to enable its tensions and fluctuations to be grasped conceptually by our minds. From this starting point, Robin Small explores the emergence of sharply contrasting models of temporality which express differing forms of life. The book concludes with a return to Nietzsche's Dionysian vision of playful participation in becoming as a never-ending creation and destruction. Time and Becoming in Nietzsche's Thought reveals Nietzsche as a major contributor to our thinking about temporality and its significance for human life.
Download or read book Nietzsche written by Irving M. Zeitlin and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-05-08 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book Irving Zeitlin re-examines the work of this important philosopher and considers how we should assess Nietzsche's claims today.
Download or read book Nietzsche On the Genealogy of Morality and Other Writings written by Friedrich Nietzsche and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-06-24 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Friedrich Nietzsche is one of the most influential thinkers of the past hundred and fifty years and On the Genealogy of Morality (1887) is his most important work on morality. A polemical contribution to moral and political theory, it offers a critique of moral values and traces the historical evolution of concepts such as guilt, conscience, responsibility, law, and justice. It is a text affording valuable insight into Nietzsche's assessment of modern times and how he envisaged a possible overcoming of the epoch of nihilism. Nietzsche himself emphasised the cumulative nature of his work and the necessity for correct understanding of the later as a development of the earlier. This volume contains new translations of the Genealogy and of The Greek State and sections from other of Nietzsche's work to which he refers within it (Human All Too Human, Daybreak, The Joyful Science, and Beyond Good and Evil).
Download or read book The Use and Abuse of History written by Friedrich Nietzsche and published by Dover Publications. This book was released on 2019-11-13 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "While life needs the services of history, it must just as clearly be comprehended that an excess measure of history will do harm to the living," declares Friedrich Nietzsche in this cautionary polemic. The iconoclastic philosopher warns us about the dangers of an uncritical devotion to the study of the past, which leads to destructive and limiting results — particularly in cases where long-ago events are exploited for nationalistic purposes. Nietzsche proposes three approaches to times gone by: the monumental, focusing on examples of human greatness; the antiquarian, involving immersion in a bygone period; and the critical, rejecting the old in favor of the new. He examines the pros and cons of each concept, favoring how the ancient Greeks looked at things, which balanced a consciousness of yesteryear with contemporary intellectual, cultural, and political sensibilities. Nietzsche’s emphasis on history as a dynamic, living culture rather than the subject of detached scholarship is certain to resonate with modern readers.
Download or read book Nietzsche s Task written by Laurence Lampert and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Nietzsche published Beyond Good and Evil in 1886, he told a friend that it was a book that would not be read properly until “around the year 2000.” Now Laurence Lampert sets out to fulfill this prophecy by providing a section by section interpretation of this philosophical masterpiece that emphasizes its unity and depth as a comprehensive new teaching on nature and humanity. According to Lampert, Nietzsche begins with a critique of philosophy that is ultimately affirmative, because it shows how philosophy can arrive at a defensible ontological account of the way of all beings. Nietzsche next argues that a new post-Christian religion can arise out of the affirmation of the world disclosed to philosophy. Then, turning to the implications of the new ontology for morality and politics, Nietzsche argues that these can be reconstituted on the fundamental insights of the new philosophy. Nietzsche’s comprehensive depiction of this anti-Platonic philosophy ends with a chapter on nobility, in which he contends that what can now be publicly celebrated as noble in our species are its highest achievements of mind and spirit.
