Nietzsche as German Philosopher
Published on 10. November 2022
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Paperback/Softback
348 pages
978-1-108-71908-7 (ISBN)
Description
This collection brings together in translation the finest postwar German-language scholarship on Nietzsche's philosophy, ranging over his concept of irony, his thoughts on music, his relation to the pre-Socratics, his concept of truth, and numerous other topics. Many of the essays appear in English here for the first time, and all are newly translated for the volume.
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English
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Cambridge
United Kingdom
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Professional and scholarly
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Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
505 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-108-71908-7 (9781108719087)
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Otfried Hoeffe
Nietzsche as German Philosopher
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02/2021
Cambridge University Press
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Otfried Hoeffe is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Tuebingen and Director of the Research Centre for Political Philosophy.
Content
Introduction Otfried Hoeffe; Part I. The Aesthetic Dimension: 1. Nietzsche's conception of irony Ernst Behler; 2. Nietzsche, philosopher of music Richard Klein; 3. Artistic metaphysics: on Nietzsche's early program for an aesthetic justification of the world Volker Gerhardt; 4. 'The three metamorphoses': a genealogy of the spirit Annemarie Pieper; Part II. Philosophical Themes: 5. Nietzsche's invention of the pre-Socratics Tilman Borsche; 6. Nietzsche's stance toward ancient and modern enlightenment Henning Ottmann; 7. 'An animal that may make promises' Otfried Hoeffe; Part III. Power and Truth: 8. Nietzsche's doctrine of the will to power Wolfgang Mueller-Lauter; 9. Nietzsche on the sovereignty of perspectival reason in philosophy Friedrich Kaulbach; 10. On the question of dialectics in Nietzsche's epistemology Alfred Schmidt; 11. Nietzsche's concept of truth Ruediger Bittner; Part IV. Religion and Religiosity: 12. The tremendous moment Joerg Salaquarda; 13. Nietzsche's critique of the reason of his life: on the interpretation of The Antichrist and Ecce Homo Werner Stegmaier.