Introductions to Nietzsche

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Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) is one of the most important philosophers of the last two hundred years, whose writings, both published and unpublished, have had a formative influence on virtually all aspects of modern culture. This volume offers introductory essays on all of Nietzsche's completed works and also his unpublished notebooks. The essays address such topics as his criticism of morality and Christianity, his doctrines of the will to power and the eternal recurrence, his perspectivism, his theories of ...
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Overview

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) is one of the most important philosophers of the last two hundred years, whose writings, both published and unpublished, have had a formative influence on virtually all aspects of modern culture. This volume offers introductory essays on all of Nietzsche's completed works and also his unpublished notebooks. The essays address such topics as his criticism of morality and Christianity, his doctrines of the will to power and the eternal recurrence, his perspectivism, his theories of tragedy and nihilism and his thoughts on ancient and modern culture. Written by internationally recognized scholars, they provide the interested reader with an up-to-date and authoritative overview of the thought of this fascinating figure.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780521189910
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • Publication date: 2/29/2012
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 304
  • Sales rank: 932,182
  • Product dimensions: 6.00 (w) x 8.90 (h) x 0.40 (d)

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Robert B. Pippin is the Evelyn Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service Professor of Philosophy and the Chair of the John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. His publications include The Persistence of Subjectivity (Cambridge University Press, 2005), Hegel's Practical Philosophy (Cambridge University Press, 2008), Nietzsche, Psychology and First Philosophy (2010), Hollywood Westerns and American Myth (2010) and Hegel on Self-Consciousness: Desire and Death in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit (2010).
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Table of Contents

Introduction Robert Pippin; 1. Nietzsche: writings from the early notebooks Alexander Nehamas; 2. Nietzsche: The Birth of Tragedy and other writings Raymond Geuss; 3. Nietzsche: Untimely Meditations Daniel Breazeale; 4. Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human Richard Schacht; 5. Nietzsche: Daybreak Maudemarie Clark and Brian Leiter; 6. Nietzsche: The Gay Science Bernard Williams; 7. Nietzsche: Thus Spoke Zarathustra Robert Pippin; 8. Nietzsche: Beyond Good and Evil Rolf-Peter Horstmann; 9. Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morality Keith Ansell-Pearson; 10. Nietzsche: The Anti-Christ, Ecce Homo, Twilight of the Idols Aaron Ridley; 11. Nietzsche: writings from the late notebooks Rüdiger Bittner; Select bibliography.
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