The Romance of Individualism in Emerson and Nietzsche

An associate professor of English at the University of Houston, David Mikics is the author of The Limits of Moralizing: Pathos and Subjectivity in Spenser and Milton, as well as articles on contemporary literature and literary theory.

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Summary

The great American thinker Ralph Waldo Emerson and the influential German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, though writing in different eras and ultimately developing significantly different philosophies, both praised the individual’s wish to be transformed, to be fully created for the first time.

Product details

• Authors: David Mikics
• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2003
• EAN: 9780821414965
• ISBN: 978-0-8214-1496-5
• No. of pages: 278
• Weight: 522 g
• Series: Series in Continental Thought; Series in Continental Thought
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day