9780674624269-0674624262-Nietzsche: Life as Literature

Nietzsche: Life as Literature

ISBN-13: 9780674624269
ISBN-10: 0674624262
Edition: 9th Printing, 1994
Author: Alexander Nehamas
Publication date: 1987
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Format: Paperback 288 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780674624269
ISBN-10: 0674624262
Edition: 9th Printing, 1994
Author: Alexander Nehamas
Publication date: 1987
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Format: Paperback 288 pages

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Nietzsche: Life as Literature (ISBN-13: 9780674624269 and ISBN-10: 0674624262), written by authors Alexander Nehamas, was published by Harvard University Press in 1987. With an overall rating of 3.8 stars, it's a notable title among other Modern (Philosophy) books. You can easily purchase or rent Nietzsche: Life as Literature (Paperback, Used) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Modern books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.6.

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More than eighty years after his death, Nietzsche’s writings and his career remain disquieting, disturbing, obscure. His most famous views―the will to power, the eternal recurrence, the Übermensch, the master morality―often seem incomprehensible or, worse, repugnant. Yet he remains a thinker of singular importance, a great opponent of Hegel and Kant, and the source of much that is powerful in figures as diverse as Wittgenstein, Derrida, Heidegger, and many recent American philosophers.

Alexander Nehamas provides the best possible guide for the perplexed. He reveals the single thread running through Nietzsche’s views: his thinking of the world on the model of a literary text, of people as if they were literary characters, and of knowledge and science as if they were literary interpretation. Beyond this, he advances the clarity of the concept of textuality, making explicit some of the forces that hold texts together and so hold us together. Nehamas finally allows us to see that Nietzsche is creating a literary character out of himself, that he is, in effect, playing the role of Plato to his own Socrates.

Nehamas discusses a number of opposing views, both American and European, of Nietzsche’s texts and general project, and reaches a climactic solving of the main problems of Nietzsche interpretation in a step-by-step argument. In the process he takes up a set of very interesting questions in contemporary philosophy, such as moral relativism and scientific realism. This is a book of considerable breadth and elegance that will appeal to all curious readers of philosophy and literature.

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