The birth of tragedy 1871 human, too human 1878 the wanderer and his shadow 1880. He reveals the single thread running through nietzsche s views. Nehamas discusses a number of opposing views, both american and european, of nietzsche s texts and general project, and reaches a climactic solving of the main problems of. This article reappraises some aspects of alexander nehamass. Pdf nietzsche in american literature and thought manfred putz. In this influential book, nehamas argues that nietzsche understands the world as if it were a literary text. Three years later, however, he was fatally attracted to philosophy by the help of his professor gregory vlastos and decided to devote himself to philosophical studies as a teacher and author. Greece, rome, the renaissance, which includes knowledge of past philosophy, literature, art, music, and so on. Nehamas, alexander, 1946 nietzsche, life as literature. The taking and arrangement of the photo were at nietzsches suggestion. Nehamas explicates nietzsche s philosophy in such a way as to neutralize the paradoxes that logically arise from the conflict between the content of nietzsche s critical philosophy and their written form the previous sentence already manifests the difficulty in this project because of the seduction of language and of the fundamental errors of reason that are.
The problems with this reading of nietzsche which are, i think. Alexander nehamas provides the best possible guide for the perplexed. Mar 02, 20 alexander nehamas of princeton speaks at the narrative selves session for the narrative self, lyric self, absent self. He celebrated life and stressed that the secret of the greatest enjoyment is to live dangerously and intensely. A wellrespected scholar of german philosophy offers a chronologically organized account of friedrich nietzsches dauntingly diverse writings, as well as a chapter on the response to nietzsche. The bottom photo on the ebook cover shows nietzsche joking with his friends, miss lou salome left and paul ree center. One recent interpretative effort is found in alexander nehamas nietzsche. Nietzsche contra wagner, out of the files of a psychologist nietzsche contra wagner, aktenstucke eines psychologen, december 1888 is a short, but classic, selection of passages nietzsche extracted from his 18781887 published works. Evaluates the similarities and differences in the ethical theories espoused by sartre and nietzsche, and argues that nietzsche goes further to create a positive morality than is usually thought. This new study is fascinating for its portrayal of nietzsches thought as literary in a twofold sense. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Life as literature cambridge, mass harvard university press, 1985, a book which, accordingly, gives only cursory attention to nietzsche s moral philosophy.
Carpenter ii class of 1943 professor in the humanities. The two key terms in the title, history and life are used in a very broad way. Argues that nietzsche tried to create a specific literary character in his writings and discusses the paradoxes of his work. Nehamas finally allows us to see that nietzsche is creating a literary character out of himself, that he is, in effect, playing the role of plato to his own socrates. The life of nietzsche, volume 1 elisabeth forsternietzsche full view 1912. The eminent philosopher and classical scholar alexander nehamas presents here a collection of his most important essays on plato and socrates.
Read nietzsche pdf life as literature by alexander nehamas harvard university press more than eighty years after his death, nietzsches. Alexander nehamas on reading nietzsche in weimar youtube. Many concern wagner, but the excerpts serve mostly as a foil for nietzsche to express his own views against. Nietzsche, and as lucretius and spinoza drew a philosophy of joy, creativity and wholeness vital. Such things, he was convinced, gave the world a better idea of a philosopher than the subtlest expositions of his teachings. Literary, psychological, and philosophical approaches to selffashioning. More than eighty years after his death, nietzsches writings and his care. Nietzsche s nietzsche is like platos socrates, a supremely influential figure who is also a fictional creation only in nietzsche s case, selfconsciously so. He is famous for uncompromising criticisms of traditional european morality and religion, as well as of conventional philosophical ideas and social and political pieties associated with modernity. Oct 01, 2012 the influences of nietzsches own life on the philosophy are very dramatic. I dont think you know what it is like to get involved in a discussion with socrates. Friedrich nietzsche stanford encyclopedia of philosophy. Robert pippin 2014 journal of nietzsche studies 45 2. Nietzsche alexander nehamas harvard university press.
Introduction of all the thinkers remembered by philosophy, it is likely that friedrich nietzsche has the most diverse and controversi al set of interpretations on record. The life of nietzsche, volume 2 elisabeth forsternietzsche frau full view 1915. Alexander nehamass recent book never loses its way in the maze of interpretative avenues that plague studies of nietzsche. The papers are unified in theme by the idea that platos central philosophical concern in metaphysics, ethics, and aesthetics was to distinguish the authentic from the fake, the original from its imitations. Life as literature by alexander nehamas 262 ratings, 4. Friedrich nietzsche 18441900 was a german philosopher and cultural critic who published intensively in the 1870s and 1880s. The attentive reader will remember how great a value nietzsche set upon the recital of individual experiences, and even of traits that appeared trivial. Life as literature alexander nehamas argues that nietzsche tried to create a specific literary character in his writings and discusses the paradoxes of his work. We will also examine nietzsche s ambiguous attitude toward philosophy and his influence on literature and criticism. Some of them have to do with the intellectual biography, of course what he studied, what he read et cetera. Nietzsche, life as literature by nehamas, alexander, 1946publication date 1985 topics. This talk is an overview of my phd research, shortly to be published as nihilism.
Nietzsches life and works stanford encyclopedia of. I concentrate on his basic claim that nietzsches model for the world, for objects, and for people turns out to be the literary text and its components. Library of congress cataloging in publication data. Nietzsche calls the affirmation of life, whereas the crucified, an expression that traditionally refers to the paulinian conception of christ, represents the opposite ideal of negation of life. This account scarcely begins to suggest the subtlety and rigor of nehamas s interpretation. C,t1114 1 ty life as literature alexander nehamas flietz. Nietzsche an examination of nietzsche s central views, including the role of tragedy, the place of science, the eternal recurrence, the will to power, and the primacy of the individual. The literary analogues that nehamas uses to illustrate nietzsche s fundamental concepts are highly illuminating. He is considered one of the most important german philosophers and philologists. In a move of apocalyptic boldness, nehamas claims that the figure of the overman which nietzsche held in such high regard, was actually nietzsche himself as he fashioned himself through his texts, a unique individual who affirmed the sumtotal of life, which includes, of course, the suffering entailed in living. Reprinted, in the form in which it appears in nietzsche. Christopher hamilton 2000 ethical theory and moral practice 3 2. Note on the selection of books the nietzsche love of fate series contains the full texts of nietzsches. Scribd is the worlds largest social reading and publishing site.
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