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Agon in Nietzsche By Yunus Tuncel
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Agon in Nietzsche

Agon in Nietzsche is a comprehensive study of Nietzsches relationship to the agonistic culture of ancient Greece. The book examines not only the overt elements of Greek agonism in Nietzsches early works, but also shows how his later works embody its spirit as it is manifest in such notions as the will to power, the overhuman, and active justice. While bringing Nietzsche scholarship together with recent studies on Greek agonism and the Olympic tradition, the book explores, in Nietzsches works, the culture of competition in such areas as mythology, sacrifice, suffering, transfiguration, feeling, justice, training and education, rhetoric, spectacle, and power.

Author: Yunus Tuncel Publication Date: May 13, 2013 Publisher: Marquette Univ Pr (May 13, 2013) More Info: amazon.com
The Greek Music Drama By Friedrich Nietzsche
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The Greek Music Drama

Agon in Nietzsche is a comprehensive study of Nietzsches relationship to the agonistic culture of ancient Greece. The book examines not only the overt elements of Greek agonism in Nietzsches early works, but also shows how his later works embody its spirit as it is manifest in such notions as the will to power, the overhuman, and active justice. While bringing Nietzsche scholarship together with recent studies on Greek agonism and the Olympic tradition, the book explores, in Nietzsches works, the culture of competition in such areas as mythology, sacrifice, suffering, transfiguration, feeling, justice, training and education, rhetoric, spectacle, and power.

Author: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (Author), Paul Bishop (Translator), Jill Marsden (Introduction) Publication Date: February 21, 2013 Publisher: Contra Mundum Press (February 21, 2013) More Info: amazon.com
Nietzsche on Language, Consciousness, and the Body By Christian J. Emden
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Nietzsche on Language, Consciousness, and the Body

From the early 1870s through the 1880s, language, consciousness, and the body stood as cornerstones of the philosophical project that culminated in Nietzsche's "anthropology of knowledge". Asserting both the timeliness and lasting value of Nietzsche's writings during this period, Emden argues that they were not based on a specific understanding of the philosophy of language or a specific conception of truth but were instead shaped by his interest in the theory of knowledge, philological scholarship, and contemporary life sciences.

Author: Christian J. Emden Publication Date: June 14, 2005 Publisher: University of Illinois Press; 1ST edition (June 14, 2005) More Info: amazon.com
Friedrich Nietzsche and the Politics of History By Christian J. Emden
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Friedrich Nietzsche and the Politics of History

This book explores Friedrich Nietzsche's understanding of modern political culture and his position in the history of modern political thought. Surveying Nietzsche's entire intellectual career from his years as a student in Bonn and Leipzig during the 1860s to his genealogical project of the 1880s, Christian Emden contributes to a historically informed discussion of Nietzsche's response to the political predicaments of modernity, and sheds new light on the intellectual and political culture in Germany as the ideals of the Enlightenment gave way to the demands of the modern nation state. This is a distinguished addition to the series of Ideas in Context, and a major reassessment of a philosopher and aphorist whose stature among post-enlightenment European thinkers is now almost unrivalled.

Author: Christian J. Emden Publication Date: October 27, 2011 Publisher: Cambridge University Press; Reissue edition (October 27, 2011) More Info: amazon.com
Nietzsche's New Darwinism By John Richardson
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Nietzsche's New Darwinism

Nietzsche wrote in a scientific culture transformed by Darwin. He read extensively in German and British Darwinists, and his own works dealt often with such obvious Darwinian themes as struggle and evolution. Yet most of what Nietzsche said about Darwin was hostile: he sharply attacked many of his ideas, and often slurred Darwin himself as "mediocre." So most readers of Nietzsche have inferred that he must have cast Darwin quite aside. But in fact, John Richardson argues, Nietzsche was deeply and pervasively influenced by Darwin. He stressed his disagreements, but was silent about several core points he took over from Darwin. Moreover, Richardson claims, these Darwinian borrowings were to Nietzsche's credit: when we bring them to the surface we discover his positions to be much stronger than we had thought. Even Nietzsche's radical innovations are more plausible when we expose their Darwinian ground; we see that they amount to a "new Darwinism."

Author: John Richardson Publication Date: September 22, 2008 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (September 22, 2008) More Info: amazon.com
Beyond Selflessness: Reading Nietzsche's Genealogy By Christopher Janaway
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Beyond Selflessness: Reading Nietzsche's Genealogy

Christopher Janaway presents a full commentary on Nietzsche's most studied work, On the Genealogy of Morality, and combines close reading of key passages with an overview of Nietzsche's wider aims. Arguing that Nietzsche's goal is to pursue psychological and historical truths concerning the origins of modern moral values, Beyond Selflessness differs from other books on Nietzsche in that it emphasizes the significance of his rhetorical methods as an instrument of persuasion. Nietzsche's outlook is broadly naturalist, but he is critical of typical scientific and philosophical methods for their advocacy of impersonality and suppression of the affects.

Author: Christopher Janaway Publication Date: September 21, 2009 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (September 21, 2009) More Info: amazon.com
Nietzsche’s Dancers By Kimerer L. LaMothe
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Nietzsche’s Dancers

Nietzsche uses images of dance throughout his work to represent the process and the fruits of his "revaluation of all values." American modern dancers Isadora Duncan and Martha Graham were inspired by his work as they created their respective visions for what dance can and should be. This book examines the relationships among these three figures, arguing that the techniques of dance practice, choreography, and performances developed by Duncan and Graham critically advance Nietzsche's revaluation of Christian values.

Author: Kimerer L. LaMothe Publication Date: 2/1/2006 Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan More Info: Barnes and Noble
Nietzsche’s Philosophy of Religion By Julian Young
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Nietzsche’s Philosophy of Religion

In his first book, The Birth of Tragedy, Nietzsche observes that Greek tragedy gathered people together as a community in the sight of their gods, and argues that modernity can be rescued from 'nihilism' only through the revival of such a festival. This is commonly thought to be a view which did not survive the termination of Nietzsche's early Wagnerianism, but Julian Young argues, on the basis of an examination of all of Nietzsche's published works, that his religious communitarianism in fact persists through all his writings. What follows, it is argued, is that the mature Nietzsche is neither an 'atheist', an 'individualist', nor an 'immoralist': he is a German philosopher belonging to a German tradition of conservative communitarianism - though to claim him as a proto-Nazi is radically mistaken. This important 2006 reassessment will be of interest to all Nietzsche scholars and to a wide range of readers in German philosophy.

Author: Julian Young Publication Date: April 24, 2006 Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 1 edition (April 24, 2006) More Info: amazon.com
Nietzsche and Theology: Nietzschean Thought in Christological Anthropology By David Deane
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Nietzsche and Theology: Nietzschean Thought in Christological Anthropology

Theology has always viewed Nietzschean thought with a sideways glance, never quite sure what to make of it. Where serious engagement has occurred it has tended to either reject such thought outright or to accept it to such an extent that it loses its identity as Christian theology. This book outlines a model for incorporating Nietzschean thought within the structures of a wholly traditional Christological anthropology. What is perhaps even more significant is what shows up in Christological anthropology under this Nietzschean light. Using Nietzschean concepts a whole new lexicon is opened up for understanding and articulating traditional accounts of sin and fallenness, accounts which modern theology has often lacked the categories to articulate. The book culminates in a doctrine of reconciliation which is given urgency and coherence precisely through such reinvigoration of traditional accounts using Nietzschean thought.

Author: David Deane Publication Date: November 11, 2006 Publisher: Ashgate Pub Co (November 11, 2006) More Info: amazon.com
God, Man and Nietzsche: A Startling Dialogue between Judaism and Modern Philosophers By Zev Golan
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God, Man and Nietzsche: A Startling Dialogue between Judaism and Modern Philosophers

What if a believer in God wants to adopt the atheistic teachings of Nietzsche? Golan shows Nietzsche can deepen one’s religious experience and explain eternal life. Did Nietzsche love or hate Jews? Golan presents all Nietzsche’s writings on the Jews and discovers why Nietzsche both lauded and castigated them. What if Schelling had taught in a rabbinical yeshiva instead of a university? Golan shows Schelling’s discovery of the roots of evil explains suffering and the Book of Job. Professor Emil Fackenheim called Golan’s dialogue with Nietzsche “an exciting example” of an “urgently necessary encounter between Judaism and modern philosophy” and said Golan's “Nietzsche is deep.” God, Man and Nietzsche is for anyone who has ever asked himself how to talk to God, why to be good, or what is happening in history.

Author: Zev Golan Publication Date: March 6, 2007 Publisher: iUniverse, Inc. (March 6, 2007) More Info: amazon.com
Nietzsche and the Greeks By Dale Wilkerson
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Nietzsche and the Greeks

Dale Wilkerson's book shows how, like many of his contemporaries, Nietzsche looked to the Greeks in an attempt to alleviate Europe's woes. His work in this area resembles that of the cultural anthropologist who uncovers formal differences in social manners that might explain the development of humankind's most important instincts-those for carving out personal identity and for forging social unity. Nietzsche and the Greeks is a much needed guide to this fascinating subject matter.

Author: Dale Wilkerson Publication Date: June 23, 2006 Publisher: Continuum; 1 edition (June 23, 2006) More Info: amazon.com
Freud and Nietzsche By Paul-Laurent Assoun
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Freud and Nietzsche

Many of the leading Freudian analysts, including in the early days, Jung, Adler, Reich and Rank, attempted to link the writings of Nietzsche with the clinical work of Freud. But what was Nietzsche to Freud - an intuitive anticipation, a precursor, a rival psychologist? Assoun moves beyond the seduction of these attractive analogues to a deeper analysis of the relation between these two figures." "Assoun reconstructs Freud's encounter with Nietzsche, his personal interpretations and the contribution of Nietzsche's champions. He also examines the thematic similarities that appear on the surface to reveal close affinities between the theorists. This argument is that these 'analogies' are really the symptom of an open, ongoing dialogue between Freud and Nietzsche (and Marx) which remains vital to critical theory today

Author: Paul-Laurent Assoun Publication Date: December 12, 2006 Publisher: Continuum (December 12, 2006) More Info: amazon.com


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