Nietzsche and postmodernism / Dave Robinson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Robinson, David, 1944-

Series:

Postmodern Encounters S.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900.

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm.

Postmodernism.

Philosophy, Modern--20th century.

Philosophy, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (77 pages)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, U.K. : Icon Books ; New York, N.Y. : Totem Books, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the POSTMODERN ENCOUNTERS series, Dave Robinson explains the key ideas of this Anti-Christ philosopher and then provides a clear account of the central themes of postmodernist thought exemplified by such thinkers as Derrida, Foucault, Lyotard and Rorty.

Contents:

Nietzsche the Prophet; A Warning; Nietzsche: the Life in Brief; Nietzsche and the Collapse of Christianity; The Greeks; Against Christianity and Transcendence; Schopenhauer and the Will to Power; Anti-Foundationalism; The Enlightenment; Words, Reality and Thoughts; The Problem of Logic; The Demolition of Science; Perspectivism, Progress and Nihilism; Belief in the Self; The Genealogy of Morals; Christian Values and Nihilism; Assessing Nietzsche's Scepticism; The Übermensch and Eternal Return; Eternal Return; Postmodernism and Nietzsche; But what is Postmodernism?; Structuralists

Derrida and DeconstructionDerrida and Nietzsche; Lyotard and Nietzsche; Foucault and Political Discourse; Foucault and Nietzsche; Nietzsche and Postmodernist Feminism; Nietzsche and Rorty; Nietzsche the Postmodernist?; Nietzsche the Phenomenalist; The Development of Perspectivism; The Less Radical Perspectivism; Nietzsche and Science; The Subject; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Key Ideas

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references.

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ISBN:

1-281-37185-8

9786611371852

1-84046-611-1

OCLC:

527378862