Nietzsche And Modern Times

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This book explores the character of modernity through a consideration of Bacon, Descartes, and Nietzsche. It argues that Bacon and Descartes, in their positive claims for science, played the fundamental role in the development of the modern world view; that they used the Platonic art of dissimulative writing as the means to achieve their ends by making their revolutionary aims appear compatible with Christianity; and that Nietzsche understood both their ends and their means and set out to ground an antimodern ...
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Overview

This book explores the character of modernity through a consideration of Bacon, Descartes, and Nietzsche. It argues that Bacon and Descartes, in their positive claims for science, played the fundamental role in the development of the modern world view; that they used the Platonic art of dissimulative writing as the means to achieve their ends by making their revolutionary aims appear compatible with Christianity; and that Nietzsche understood both their ends and their means and set out to ground an antimodern world view.
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  • ISBN-13: 9780300065107
  • Publisher: Yale University Press
  • Publication date: 8/1/1995
  • Edition description: Reissue
  • Pages: 492
  • Product dimensions: 6.14 (w) x 9.21 (h) x 0.99 (d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
1 Introduction 1
Pt. 1 Philosophy's Lord Chancellor 15
2 Why Read Francis Bacon? 17
3 Who Rules in Bensalem? 27
4 Why Incite a Holy War? 67
5 Bacon, Plato, Nietzsche 116
Pt. 2 A Prudent Legislator 143
6 Rene Descartes, Baconian 145
7 Descartes and Socrates: A Turning Point in the Discourse 171
8 Descartes and Plato 181
9 Descartes and Montaigne: The Discourse as Essay 207
Pt. 3 Another Genuine Philosopher 273
10 Nietzsche and the History of Philosophy 275
11 Philosophy and the Deadly Truths 281
12 Joyous Science I: The New History of Philosophy 299
13 Joyous Science II: The Hyperborean History of European Philosophy and Religion 315
14 Joyous Science III: Hyperborean Politics or European Antinihilism 388
15 Epilogue: The Nietzschean Renaissance 443
Works Cited 447
Index 459
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