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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Named Person: | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche; Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Matthew Meyer |
ISBN: | 9781108659123 1108659128 9781108564847 1108564844 |
OCLC Number: | 1098275127 |
Description: | 1 online resource |
Contents: | Interpreting Nietzscheʹs free spirit works -- A defense of the dialectical reading -- The Ascetic camel -- For the love of truth: human, all too human -- An Epicurean in exile: assorted opinions and maxims and the wanderer and his shadow -- The dragon-slaying lion -- Undermining the prejudices of morality: daybreak -- The Selbstaufhebung of the will to truth: the gay science I-III -- The Dionysian child -- Incipit Tragoedia: from the gay science IV to thus spoke Zarathustra -- Incipit Parodia: from the free spirit to the philosophy of the future? |
Responsibility: | Matthew Meyer. |
Abstract:
Often considered mere assemblages of aphorisms, the free spirit works - Human, All Too Human; Assorted Opinions and Maxims; The Wanderer and His Shadow; Daybreak; and The Gay Science - are here presented as a coherent narrative of Nietzsche's self-education. The book explores these works' role in Nietzsche's wider philosophy.
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'This is a superb intellectual history of Nietzsche's philosophical quest to emancipate his self-legislating spirit from the debilitating influences of metaphysics, religion, morality, and the scientific desire for truth at all costs.' Paul S. Loeb, University of Puget Sound, Washington `This is a superb intellectual history of Nietzsche's philosophical quest to emancipate his self-legislating spirit from the debilitating influences of metaphysics, religion, morality, and the scientific desire for truth at all costs.' Paul S. Loeb, University of Puget Sound, Washington Read more...
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