Nietzsche's Task: An Interpretation of Beyond Good and Evil - Couverture rigide

Lampert, Laurence

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0300088736 ISBN 13 : 9780300088731

Editeur : Yale University Press, 2001

Synopsis

When Nictzsche published Beyond Good and Evil in 1886, he told a friend that it was a book that would not be read properly until "around the year 2000". Now Laurence Lampert sets out to fulfill this prophecy by providing a section by section interpretation of this philosophical masterpiece that emphasises its unity and depth as a comprehensive new doctrine on nature and humanity. According to Lampert, Nietzsche begins with a critique of philosophy that is ultimately affirmative, because it shows how philosophy can arrive at a defensible ontological account of the way of all beings. Nietzsche next argues that a new post-Christian religion can arise out of the affirmation of the world disclosed to philosophy. Then, turning to the implications of the new ontology for morality and politics, Nietzsche argues that these can be reconstituted on the fundamental insights of the new philosophy. Nietzsche's comprehensive depiction of this anti-Platonic philosophy ends with a chapter on nobility, in which he contends that what can now be publicly celebrated as noble in our species are its highest achievements of mind and spirit.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Laurence Lampert, professor of philosophy at Indiana University, Indianapolis, is also the author of Nietzsche's Teaching (ISBN 0 300 04430 5, pb. 13.95) and Nietzsche and Modern Times (ISBN 0 300 06510 8, pb. 13.95), both published by Yale University Press, as well as Leo Strauss and Nietzsche.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Yale University Press
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0300088736
• ISBN 13: 9780300088731
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 320
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