Nietzsche and Modern Times - A Study of Bacon, Descartes, and Nietzsche

This book explores the character of modernity through a consideration of Bacon, Descartes, and Nietzsche. It argues that Bacon and Descartes, in their positive claims for science, played the fundamental role in the development of the modern world view; that they used the Platonic art of dissimulative writing as the means to achieve their ends by making their revolutionary aims appear compatible with Christianity; and that Nietzsche understood both their ends and their means and set out to ground an antimodern world view. Zusammenfassung Provides an interpretation of modern philosophy by developing Nietzsche's view that genuine philosophers set out to determine the direction of culture through their ideas and that they conceal the radical nature of their thought by their esoteric style.

Product details

• Authors: Laurence Lampert
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.08.1995
• EAN: 9780300065107
• ISBN: 978-0-300-06510-7
• No. of pages: 490
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV