Nietzsche - Life As Literature

Informationen zum Autor Alexander Nehamas is Professor Emeritus in the Humanities, Philosophy, and Comparative Literature at Princeton University. He is author of Nietzsche: Life as Literature , Virtues of Authenticity: Essays on Plato and Socrates , The Art of Living: Socratic Reflections from Plato to Foucault , Only a Promise of Happiness: The Place of Beauty in a World of Art , and On Friendship . Klappentext Nietzsche is an author, a public figure, and all his writings are relevant to his interpretation. The importance we attach to any part of his work cannot depend on general principles about which is essentially primary and which necessarily follows. Zusammenfassung Argues that Nietzsche tried to create a specific literary character in his writings and discusses the paradoxes of his work. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Part I. The World 1. The Most Multifarious Art of Style 2. Untruth as a Condition of Life 3. A Thing Is the Sum of Its Effects 4. Nature against Something That Is Also Nature Part II. The Self 5. This Life--Your Eternal Life 6. How One Becomes What One Is 7. Beyond Good and Evil A Note on Texts and Translations Notes Index

Product details

• Authors: A Nehamas, Alexander Nehamas
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.02.2003
• EAN: 9780674624269
• ISBN: 978-0-674-62426-9
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, Philosophy, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, History of Western philosophy