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Author | : Jeffrey Church |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Culture |
ISBN | : 9781316419892 |
Nietzsche scholars have long been divided over whether Nietzsche is an aristocratic or a democratic thinker. Nietzche's Culture of Humanity overcomes this debate by proving both sides wrong. Jeffrey Church argues that in his early period writings, Nietzsche envisioned a cultural meritocracy that drew on the classical German tradition of Kant and Herder. The young Nietzsche's 'culture of humanity' synthesized the high and low, the genius and the people, the nation and humanity. Nietzsche's early ideal of culture can shed light on his mature period thought, since, Church argues, Nietzsche does not abandon this fundamental commitment to a cultural meritocracy. Nietzche's Culture of Humanity argues that Nietzsche's novel defense of culture can overcome some persisting problems in contemporary liberal theories of culture. As such, this book should interest Nietzsche scholars, political theorists and philosophers interested in modern thought, as well as contemporary thinkers concerned with the politics of culture.
Author | : Vanessa Lemm |
Publisher | : Fordham Univ Press |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0823230279 |
This book explores the significance of human animality in the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche and provides the first systematic treatment of the animal theme in Nietzsche's corpus as a whole Lemm argues that the animal is neither a random theme nor a metaphorical device in Nietzsche's thought. Instead, it stands at the center of his renewal of the practice and meaning of philosophy itself. Lemm provides an original contribution to on-going debates on the essence of humanism and its future. At the center of this new interpretation stands Nietzsche's thesis that animal life and its potential for truth, history, and morality depends on a continuous antagonism between forgetfulness (animality) and memory (humanity). This relationship accounts for the emergence of humanity out of animality as a function of the antagonism between civilization and culture. By taking the antagonism of culture and civilization to be fundamental for Nietzsche's conception of humanity and its becoming, Lemm gives a new entry point into the political significance of Nietzsche's thought. The opposition between civilization and culture allows for the possibility that politics is more than a set of civilizational techniques that seek to manipulate, dominate, and exclude the animality of the human animal. By seeing the deep-seated connections of politics with culture, Nietzsche orients politics beyond the domination over life and, instead, offers the animality of the human being a positive, creative role in the organization of life. Lemm's book presents Nietzsche as the thinker of an emancipatory and affirmative biopolitics. This book will appeal not only to readers interested in Nietzsche, but also to anyone interested in the theme of the animal in philosophy, literature, cultural studies and the arts, as well as those interested in the relation between biological life and politics.
Author | : Jeffrey Church |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2015-09-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107120268 |
This book argues that Nietzsche is a meritocratic thinker, not, as many have argued, an aristocrat or a democrat.
Author | : Andrew Huddleston |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0198823673 |
Andrew Huddleston presents a striking challenge to the standard view of Nietzsche as the champion of the great individual, and preoccupied with his own quasi-artistic self-cultivation. Huddleston focuses on Nietzsche's idea of a flourishing culture to bring out the deep social and collectivist character of his thought.
Author | : Jonathan Cohen |
Publisher | : Humanities Press International |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781591026808 |
Author | : Peter Levine |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 1995-01-25 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1438410638 |
Levine argues that Strauss and Derrida have much in common, including an idealist, reified concept of culture that both inherited from Nietzsche. Levine interprets all of Nietzsche's basic doctrines in terms of this concept. Nietzsche's definition of culture produced epistemological and moral dilemmas for him and his followers, and encouraged them to devise alternatives to mainstream humanities. Levine, however, offers an alternative paradigm of culture that better fits the data and allows us to understand and defend the humanities as a source of value.
Author | : Shilo Brooks |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2017-11-03 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 3319615211 |
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.
Author | : Max Statkiewicz |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 137 |
Release | : 2019-12-09 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1793603936 |
Questioning the Enlightenment in Nietzsche, Dostoyevsky, and Artaud challenges the cultural optimism of the Enlighten through an examination of Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, and Artaud. The Enlightenment was characterized, as Arnold put it, as “sweetness and light”. Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, and Artaud each pushed back against the optimism of the enlightenment through their writing and advanced the idea of cruelty as lying at the root of all human nature and culture. In this study, Statkiewicz explores the seemingly opposing notions of culture and cruelty within the works of these authors to discuss their complex relationship with one another.
Author | : Julian Young |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1107049857 |
The ten essays that comprise this volume wrestle with the tension between the individual and the community in Nietzsche's philosophy.
Author | : Bruce Boehrer |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 775 |
Release | : 2018-09-20 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1108581161 |
Animals, Animality, and Literature offers readers a one-volume survey of the field of literary animal studies in both its theoretical and applied dimensions. Focusing on English literary history, with scrupulous attention to the interplay between English and foreign influences, this collection gathers together the work of nineteen internationally noted specialists in this growing discipline. Offering discussion of English literary works from Beowulf to Virginia Woolf and beyond, this book explores the ways human/animal difference has been historically activated within the literary context: in devotional works, in philosophical and zoological treatises, in plays and poems and novels, and more recently within emerging narrative genres such as cinema and animation. With an introductory overview of the historical development of animal studies and afterword looking to the field's future possibilities, Animals, Animality, and Literature provides a wide-ranging survey of where this discipline currently stands.