Nietzsche's Culture War: The Unity of the Untimely Meditations Softcover Repri Edition Contributor(s): Brooks, Shilo (Author) |
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ISBN: 3319871005 ISBN-13: 9783319871004 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $36.09 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2018 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Political Science | History & Theory - General - Philosophy | Political - Literary Criticism | Modern - 19th Century |
Dewey: 320.01 |
Series: Recovering Political Philosophy |
Physical Information: 0.59" H x 5.85" W x 8.21" (0.70 lbs) 241 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: This book is the first comprehensive interpretation of Nietzsche's Untimely Meditations. It argues that the four Meditations--which Nietzsche said "deserve the greatest attention for my development"--are not separate pieces, but instead form a unified philosophic narrative that constitutes his first attempt to diagnose and cure the spiritual ailments whose causes he traced to modern culture and science. Taking Nietzsche's commentary on the four essays in his autobiographical work Ecce Homo as its interpretive guide, this book also shows that the Untimely Meditations contain early expositions of concepts like the last man, the overman, the new philosopher, the creation of values, and the malleability of nature--all staples of his later philosophy. |