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1 online resource (241 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Book title; Contents; Preface; Introduction; A time of change; On reading Nietzsche; On interpreting Nietzsche; 1 The young Nietzsche; Nietzsche's background; Tragedy strikes; Nietzsche's education; The professor; 2 Philosophical influences; The influence of Wagner; The influence of Schopenhauer; The influence of Plato; Descartes and Spinoza; Locke and Berkeley; Hume and Kant; 3 Nietzsche's later life and death; Malwida von Meysenbug and Paul Rée; Nietzsche's wanderings; The writing of Dawn; Lou von Salomé; The final years; Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche; 4 The Birth of Tragedy |
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The 'theoretical man'Apollo and Dionysus; The importance of culture; The value of Greek tragedy; 5 The revaluation of all values; Nietzsche and moral philosophy; The death of God; Nietzsche's naturalism; Slave morality; Criticism of the priests; The idea of the Superman; 6 The will to power; The enigma of the will to power; The objective interpretation; The subjective interpretation; The empirical interpretation; Conclusion; 7 Zarathustra, the Superman and the eternal recurrence; Thus Spoke Zarathustra; A brief summary of thus spoke zarathustra; The eternal recurrence |
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Zarathustra and the SupermanAfter Zarathustra; Nihilism; Amor fati: love your fate!; 8 On truth and perspectivism; The theory of knowledge; Nietzsche's perspectivism; Reason and the senses; The importance of language; 9 Nietzsche and religion; Nietzsche's religiosity; Nietzsche as a 'sort' of atheist; Nietzsche the Lutheran; Nietzsche and 'inspiration'; Religion as life enhancing; On Islam; Myth, modernity and monumental history; Religion and the state; On Buddhism; 10 Nietzsche and politics; On democracy; The immoralist?; On women; The philosophers of the future |
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Does Nietzsche have political views?11 Nietzsche's legacy; Nazism; Twentieth-century French philosophy; The analytic tradition; Art and literature; Nietzsche's writings: abbreviations and translations used; Timeline of important events in Nietzsche's life; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z; Answers |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781473601505 |
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1473601509 |
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