Nietzsche, Aesthetics and Modernity

by Matthew Rampley

Overview

Nietzsche, Aesthetics and Modernity analyzes Nietzsche's response to the aesthetic tradition, tracing in particular the complex relationship between the work and thought of Nietzsche, Kant, and Hegel. Focusing in particular on the critical role of negation and sublimity in Nietzsche's account of art, it explores his confrontation with modernity and his attempt to posit a revitalized artistic practice as the countermovement to modern nihilism. It also highlights the extent to which Nietzsche counters the culture of his own time with a dialectical notion of aesthetic interpretation and practice.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521037938
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	07/19/2007
Pages:	300
Product dimensions:	5.94(w) x 8.86(h) x 0.63(d)

Table of Contents

List of abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Truth, interpretation and the dialectic of nihilism; 2. Nietzsche's subject: retrieving the repressed; 3. Laughter and sublimity: reading The Birth of Tragedy; 4. Wagner, modernity and the problem of transcendence; 5. Memory, history and eternal recurrence: the aesthetics of time; 6. Towards a physiological aesthetic; 7. Art, truth and woman: the raging discordance; 8. Overcoming nihilism: art, modernity and beyond; Notes; References; Index.

Editorial Reviews

"Rampley's contribution constitutes a well-articulated summary of major ideas and insights by Nietzsche that highlight, and earnestly seek to resolve, the problem of modernity with pertinent parallels to and critiques of influential thinkers of the 20th century both within and outside of the German tradition." German Studies Review 2002

"A full and persuasive reassessment of Nietzsche's thinking on the aesthetic." CAA Reviews

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