Thinker on stage : Nietzsche's materialism / Peter Sloterdijk ; translation by Jamie Owen Daniel ; foreword by Jochen Schulte-Sasse.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sloterdijk, Peter, 1947-

Series:

Theory and history of literature ; v. 56.

Theory and history of literature ; v. 56

Standardized Title:

Denker auf der Bühne. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900.

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm.

Physical Description:

xxvi, 106 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [1989]

Summary:

Thinker on Stage is Peter Sloterdijk's audacious, empathetic reading of Friedrich Nietzche's first published work, The Birth of Tragedy out of the Spirit of Music. Intended originally as a postscript to a new edition of Nietzsche's book, Sloterdijk's text grew and became a book in its own right. Sloterdijk characterizes Nietzsche as a centaur-a philologist/musician, a philosopher/poet; the possessor of multiple talents inseparable from one another-who, in consequence, led the life of an obscure outsider on the fringes of organized cultural life. To Sloterdijk, Nietzsche is not a hairsplitting philologist behind a lecturn but rather a thinker on stage, enacting a psychodrama on the origins of tragedy in universal human suffering. Reaching beyond philology, and risking his career, Nietzsche used this stage to present a glimpse of Greek antiquity quite unlike that cherished in nineteenth-century bourgeois culture.

Sloterdijk, in turn, uses his subtle reading of Nietzsche to make his own cultural evaluations. Above all, he finds in The Birth of Tragedy, and in Nietzsche's life, a refutation of the will to power, and a sign that Nietzsche-fragile, wounded, endangered, yet self-affirming-is our contemporary.

Contents:

Foreword: Nietzsche's Theoretical Resistance Jochen Schulte-Sasse ix

1 Centauric Literature 3

2 The Philosophy of Existence, the Dramaturgy of Force 15

3 Cave Canem; or, Danger, Terrible Truth! 33

4 Dionysus Meets Diogenes; or, The Adventures of the Embodied Intellect 50

5 Pain and Justice 74.

Notes:

Translation of: Der Denker auf der Bühne.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0816617643 :

0816617651

OCLC:

19555269