Nietzsche: Truth and Redemption - Critique of the Postmodernist Nietzsche

Informationen zum Autor Ted Sadler was formerly Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Sydney, Australia. His publications include Heidegger and Aristotle: The Question of Being (Continuum, 1996) and Nietzsche: Truth and Redemption  (Continuum, 1995). Klappentext This reading of Nietzsche counters the often misleading interpretation of post-modern commentators! largely under the influence of Derrida. In this critique! the author reconstructs Nietzche's relationship to Schopenhauer and Heidegger! and argues that Nietzsche was not! as the postmodernists contend! a relativist or pluralist! but that he cultivated an existential appreciation of truth. Zusammenfassung Aims to counter the often misleading interpretation of post-modern commentators, reconstructing Nietzsche's relationship to Schopenhauer and Heidegger, and arguing that Nietzsche was not a relativist or pluralist, but that he cultivated an existential appreciation of truth. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1) Perspectivism and its Limits 2) Hierarchy of the Spirit 3) Redemption and Life-Affirmation 4) Nietzsche and Heidegger Conclusion

Product details

• Authors: Ted Sadler, Sadler Ted
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780485114713
• ISBN: 978-0-485-11471-3
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, History of Western philosophy