Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist (Princeton Classics)
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| Rating | : | 4.56 (895 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0691160260 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 560 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-12-02 |
| Language | : | English |
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Not hard to read. Wondrous still. You need to learn about this genius. Makes clear what may seem difficult .. "Still cuts against the grain in many ways" according to Brian C.. Nietzsche is a philosopher with many faces and he has been appropriated by interpreters with wildly different and often conflicting goals. For example, he has been enlisted by philosophers of a Romantic persuasion in their attacks on science. Such interpreters draw on Nietzsche's analysis of the "will to truth", his celebration of art and appearance, his perspectivism, and his ideas about the fictional nature of all posited unities - such as that of atoms. But he has also been enlisted by the scientifically minded in their attack on superstition, religion, and philosophical systems built on a priori premises. Nietzsche has been ap. This is a better approach since Nietzsche made changes to his views from Wiliam H. Peace Walter Kaufmann (1921 - 1980) was professor of philosophy at Princeton University and a world-renowned scholar and translator of Nietzsche. In fact, Nietzsche was first published in 1950, and has been through four editions, the latest appeared in 1974 in paperback.It is clear from a mere perusal of the book that Kaufmann devoted much of his life to the study of Nietzsche, who was a difficult and somewhat opaque character, who fought with his mother and sister, and had a tendency to state his case in strong, sometimes extreme, language. For these reasons, he was not well understood and attracted considerable criticism. In fact, he
. Kaufmann (1921-1980) was professor of philosophy at Princeton University and a world-renowned scholar and translator of Nietzsche. Walter A
Kaufmann has produced what may be called the definitive study of Nietzsche's life and thought-an informed, scholarly, and lustrous work."--The New Yorker. "Illuminating."--New York Times"Mr
More positively, he presented Nietzsche's ideas about power as one of the great accomplishments of modern philosophy, arguing that his conception of the "will to power" was not a crude apology for ruthless self-assertion but must be linked to Nietzsche's equally profound ideas about sublimation. When Walter Kaufmann wrote it in the immediate aftermath of World War II, most scholars outside Germany viewed Nietzsche as part madman, part proto-Nazi, and almost wholly unphilosophical. Without ignoring or downplaying the ugliness of many of Nietzsche's proclamations, he set them in the context of his work as a whole and of the counterexamples yielded by a responsible reading of his books. He also presented Nietzsche as a pioneer of modern psychology and argued that a key to understanding his overall philosophy is to see it as a reaction against Christianity.Many scholars in the past half century have taken issue with some of Kaufmann's interpretations, but the book ranks as one of the most influential accounts ever written of any major Western thinker. Kaufmann rehabilitated Nietzsche nearly single-handedly, presenting his works as one of the great achievements of Western philosophy.Responding to the powerful myths and countermyths that had sprung up around Nietzsche, Kaufmann offered a patient, evenhanded account of his life and works, and of the uses and abuses to which subseque