Nietzsche : attempt at a mythology / Ernst Bertram ; translated and with an introduction by Robert E. Norton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bertram, Ernst, 1884-1957.

Contributor:

Norton, Robert Edward, 1960-

Series:

International Nietzsche studies.

International Nietzsche studies

Standardized Title:

Nietzsche. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy, German--History.

Philosophy, German.

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900.

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (425 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The only English translation of a crucial interpretation of Nietzsche First published in 1918, Ernst Bertram's Nietzsche: Attempt at a Mythology substantially shaped the image of Nietzsche for the generation between the wars. It won the Nietzsche Society's first prize and was admired by luminous contemporaries including André Gide, Hermann Hesse, Gottfried Benn, and Thomas Mann. Although translated into French in 1932, the book was never translated into English following the decline of Nietzsche's and Bertram's reputations after 1945. Now, with Nietzsche's importance for twentieth-century thought undisputed, the work by one of his most influential interpreters can at last be read in English. Employing a perspectival technique inspired by Nietzsche himself, Bertram constructs a densely layered portrait of the thinker that shows him riven by deep and ultimately irresolvable cultural, historical, and psychological conflicts. At once lyrical and intensely probing, richly complex yet thematically coherent, Bertram's book is a masterpiece in a forgotten tradition of intellectual biography.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""CONTENTS""; ""Translator's Introduction: Attempt at a Demythologization""; ""A Comment on the Notes""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction: Legend""; ""1. Ancestry""; ""2. Knight, Death, and Devil""; ""3. The German Becoming""; ""4. Justice""; ""5. Arion""; ""6. Illness""; ""7. Judas""; ""8. Mask""; ""9. Weimar""; ""10. Napoleon""; ""11. Jest, Cunning, and Vengeance""; ""12. Anecdote""; ""13. Indian Summer""; ""14. Claude Lorrain ""; ""15. Venice""; ""16. Portofino""; ""17. Prophecy""; ""18. Socrates""; ""19. Eleusis""; ""Notes""

""Chronology""""Index""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-363) and index.

ISBN:

9786613059956

9781283059954

1283059959

9780252090523

0252090527

OCLC:

785781173