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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.
List of contents
1. Introduction: Nietzsche contra Bismarck-Culture War.- 2. David Strauss the Confessor and the Writer.- 3. The Use and Disadvantage of History for Life.- 4. Schopenhauer as Educator.- 5. Richard Wagner in Bayreuth.
About the author
Shilo Brooks is Instructor at the Herbst Program of Humanities in Engineering at University of Colorado, USA
Summary
Provides the first comprehensive interpretation of Nietzsche’s
Untimely Meditations
Challenges the view, predominant in Nietzsche scholarship today, that his early and late writings are disparate in concern and approach
Argues that the
Untimely Meditations
form a unified philosophic narrative that constitutes Nietzsche’s first attempt to diagnose and cure the spiritual ailments whose causes he traced to modern culture and science
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“In his excellent book, Brooks persuasively argues that the Meditations are unified in advancing a ‘Culture War’ that Nietzsche wages against our modern scientific age. … as soon as anyone cracks open the Meditations—a first-time reader or scholar—she should have Brooks by her side.” (Jeffrey Church, The Review of Politics, Vol. 81 (2), Spring, 2019)
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"In his excellent book, Brooks persuasively argues that the Meditations are unified in advancing a 'Culture War' that Nietzsche wages against our modern scientific age. ... as soon as anyone cracks open the Meditations-a first-time reader or scholar-she should have Brooks by her side." (Jeffrey Church, The Review of Politics, Vol. 81 (2), Spring, 2019)
