Nietzsche : the meaning of earth / Lucas Murrey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Murrey, Lucas, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900.

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm.

Dionysus (Greek deity).

Dionysus.

Philosophy of nature.

Physical Description:

xxxii, 157 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Bethlehem : Lehigh University Press, [2015]

Contents:

I Dionysian Philosophy

1 Evil Eye 3

"The poisonous eye of ressentiment"

"Machinist and decorative artist"

Notes

2 Apollo and Dionysus 15

"Tragic myth"

"Secret celebrations of dramatic mysteries"

"The public cult of tragedy"

3 Dionysian Philosophy 27

"The Hellenic model"

"Incipit tragoedia"

4 Fifty Mirrors around You 39

"They jingle with their gold"

"Loathsome verbal-swill"

"Fifty mirrors around you"

"To hear with the eyes"

5 The Meaning of Earth 51

"A big eye"

"Teeth-gnashing and most lonely melancholy"

"Twinkling stars and glow-worms"

"The meaning of earth"

II Proto-National Socialism

6 Despair of the German Spirit 71

"A permanent. loving bond between German and Greek culture?"

"Confused our gaze searches"

7 Patriotic Excitation and Aesthetic Opulence 79

"In the terror and sublimities of the recently out-broken war"

"Monstrous intrusive powers from the outside"

"Destruction of Greek culture through the Jewish world"

"And if the German should look about hesitatingly for a Führer"

8 Blond German Beasts 89

"False, flickering light"

"Happy monsters"

"Not only onward, but also upward should you plant"

9 Purification of the Race 97

"The wisdom of Him who is not only the God of the Jews"

"The Aryan conquering race"

"Zarathustra ... in the Aryan province"

10 Jews/Christians: "The Chosen People among Peoples" 111

"Jewish history"

"Vengeful-addict instincts of an unhappy priest"

"If Christianity remains, the Germans will be to blame"

Conclusion: Herakleitean Hyper-Abstractions 119

"Doubtful even about Herakleitos"

"Eternal contradiction, father of all things"

"The primal problem of tragedy"

"In the ten years of his loneliness"

Coda 137

The Bordello in Leipzig

Notes.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781611461541

1611461545

OCLC:

894625656