Nietzsche

Name: Nietzsche
Brand: Princeton University Press
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By Kaufmann, Walter A

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This classic is the benchmark against which all modern books about Nietzsche are measured. 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 subsequent generations had put his ideas. 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. 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. 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.

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Binding:: Paperback
Edition:: 1
Languages:: Original: English
Number of Pages:: 560
Publisher:: Princeton University Press
Publication Date:: 2013-10-20
ISBN / EAN:: 9780691160269
Weight:: 537 g
Dimensions:: 14/22/4 cm
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