Nietzsche''s Earthbound Wisdom - The Philosopher, the Poet, and the Sage

An incisive exploration of Nietzsche as a bold, visionary poet-philosopher.Today, Nietzsche is justly celebrated for his rich, philosophical naturalism, but Keith Ansell-Pearson warns that we must not overlook the visionary dimension of his thinking and his focus on the need to cultivate a new care of the self and care of life. In Nietzsche's Earthbound Wisdom, Ansell-Pearson recovers Nietzsche's love for a philosophy that guides us through our passions, one that opens us more fully to the possibilities of life and the joy of knowledge.Ansell-Pearson offers close readings of Nietzsche's texts in conversation with philosophical and literary figures including Augustine, Baudelaire, Carlyle, Dostoevsky, Emerson, Flaubert, Stendhal, and more. Throughout, Ansell-Pearson examines Nietzsche's sophisticated critique of literary naturalism and his alternative conception of the poet as a seer who has a deep longing for a new earth.

Product details

• Authors: Keith Ansell-Pearson
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.05.2025
• EAN: 9780226839257
• ISBN: 978-0-226-83925-7
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; History of Ideas, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Individual Philosophers, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Existentialism, Western philosophy from c 1800, Phenomenology & Existentialism, Phenomenology and Existentialism