The Nietzsche Legacy in Germany

The Nietzsche Legacy in Germany
Author: Steven E. Aschheim
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 363
Release: 1994-02-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 0520085558

"One of the most important works of German and European intellectual history published in years. . . . It will be welcomed by intellectual historians as a long overdue history of the multivalent reception and reworking of Nietzsche."—Jeffrey Herf, author of Reactionary Modernism

Nietzsche's Legacy

Nietzsche's Legacy
Author: Heinrich Meier
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2024
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 022675197X

"Ecce Homo and The Antichrist address the interrelated questions of what a philosopher is and what constitutes a philosophic life. Nietzsche's Legacy conceives of these twin books as the late major work that is meant to take the place of the Will to Power, a project Nietzsche had come to reject. The pair concludes his ¶uvre by both enacting the highest affirmation, the "revaluation of all values," and the most resolute negation, the sharpest criticism to which a philosopher has subjected Christianity. Yet in both books, Nietzsche is interested above all in the nature of the philosopher. How the Yes and the No go together, how to determine the relation between nature and politics, how Nietzsche's intention governs the political-philosophical double-face: this is the subject of Nietzsche's Legacy, which advances a new view of Nietzsche's philosophy as a whole"--

The Legacy of Nietzsche’s Philosophy of Laughter

The Legacy of Nietzsche’s Philosophy of Laughter
Author: Lydia Amir
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 575
Release: 2021-09-30
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0429000863

This book investigates the role of humor in the good life, specifically as discussed by three prominent French intellectuals who were influenced by Nietzsche's thought: Georges Bataille, Gilles Deleuze, and Clément Rosset. Lydia Amir begins by discussing Nietzsche’s reception in France, and she explains why and how he came to be considered a "philosopher of laughter" in the French academe. Each of the subsequent three chapters focuses on the significance of humor and laughter in the good life as advocated by Bataille, Deleuze, and Rosset. These chapters also explore the complex relationship between the comic and the tragic, and of humor and laughter to irony, satire, and ridicule. The Legacy of Nietzsche’s Philosophy of Laughter makes an invaluable contribution to recent interpretive work done on Bataille and Deleuze, and offers further introduction to the relatively understudied Rosset. It illuminates the philosophies of these three thinkers, their connection to Nietzsche, and, overall, the significant role that humor plays in philosophy.

Nietzsche's French Legacy

Nietzsche's French Legacy
Author: Alan Schrift
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2014-03-18
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1317828194

First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Nietzsche's French Legacy

Nietzsche's French Legacy
Author: Alan Schrift
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2014-03-18
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1317828208

First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Nietzsche, Power and Politics

Nietzsche, Power and Politics
Author: Herman Siemens
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 901
Release: 2009-02-26
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 3110217333

Nietzsche’s legacy for political thought is a highly contested area of research today. With papers representing a broad range of positions, this collection takes stock of the central controversies (Nietzsche as political / anti-political thinker? Nietzsche and / contra democracy? Arendt and / contra Nietzsche?), as well as new research on key concepts (power, the agon, aristocracy, friendship i.a.), on historical, contemporary and futural aspects of Nietzsche’s political thought. International contributors include well-known names (Conway, Ansell-Pearson, Hatab, Taureck, Patton, Connolly, Villa, van Tongeren) and young emerging scholars from various disciplines.

Ethics of Writing

Ethics of Writing
Author: Sean Burke
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2010-09-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0748686843

The ethical question is the question of our times. Within critical theory, it has focused on the act of reading. This original and courageous study reverses the terms of inquiry to analyse the ethical composition of the act of writing.

The Eroticization of Distance

The Eroticization of Distance
Author: Joseph D. Kuzma
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 169
Release: 2016-07-26
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1498524397

In The Eroticization of Distance: Nietzsche, Blanchot and the Legacy of Courtly Love, Joseph D. Kuzma explores the significance of courtly erotic themes in Friedrich Nietzsche’s mature philosophy and in Maurice Blanchot’s writings of the 1940s and early 1950s. Rather than offering an account of erotic relationality that prioritizes reconciliation, fulfillment, or release, Nietzsche attempts to formulate a nonteleological eroticism that aims at nothing but the perpetual intensification of desire. Kuzma suggests that it is Blanchot who carries Nietzsche’s courtly erotic tendencies to their most provocative point, by highlighting potentials for intimate relationality that might be established through a shared experience of dispossession and loss. This first monograph to engage specifically with the theme of eroticism in Blanchot’s writings will be of interest not only to students and scholars of Nietzsche, Blanchot, or French philosophy, but also anyone interested in the philosophy of sexuality, the history of love, theories of the emotions, or nineteenth and twentieth-century European thought more generally.

Understanding Nietzscheanism

Understanding Nietzscheanism
Author: Ashley Woodward
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2014-09-03
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1317547799

Nietzsche's critiques of traditional modes of thinking, valuing and living, as well as his radical proposals for new alternatives, have been vastly influential in a wide variety of areas, such that an understanding of his philosophy and its influence is important for grasping many aspects of contemporary thought and culture. However Nietzsche's thought is complex and elusive, and has been interpreted in many ways. Moreover, he has influenced starkly contrasting movements and schools of thought, from atheism to theology, from existentialism to poststructuralism, and from Nazism to feminism. This book charts Nietzsche's influence, both historically and thematically, across a variety of these contrasting disciplines and schools of interpretation. It provides both an accessible introduction to Nietzsche's thought and its impact and an overview of contemporary approaches to Nietzsche.

The Nietzsche Legacy in Germany

The Nietzsche Legacy in Germany
Author: Steven E. Aschheim
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 374
Release: 1994-02-25
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780520914803

Countless attempts have been made to appropriate the ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche for diverse cultural and political ends, but nowhere have these efforts been more sustained and of greater consequence than in Germany. Aschheim offers a magisterial chronicle of the philosopher's presence in German life and politics.