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Nietzsche's search for philosophy : on the middle writings / by Keith Ansell-Pearson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ansell-Pearson, Keith, 1960- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900.
- Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 181 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2018.
- Summary:
- Is there truth in the observation made by Havelock Ellis that the works Nietzsche produced between 1878 and 1882 - his middle period - represent the 'maturity or his genius'? In Nietzsche's Search for Philosophy, Keith Ansell-Pearson makes a novel and thought-provoking contribution to our appreciation of Nietzsche's neglected middle writings, arguing for the centrality of these texts to his thought. Through a careful analysis of Human, all too Human (1878-80), Dawn (1881), and The Gay Science (1882), Ansell-Pearson teases out the key aspects of Nietzsche's philosophical activity including his conceptions of philosophy, his commitment to various enlightenments, his critique of fanaticism, his search for the heroic-idyllic, his philosophy of modesty and his conception of ethics, and his search for joy and happiness. This book will appeal to readers across philosophy and the humanities and anyone who is a concerned with the fate of philosophy in our contemporary age. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- An introduction to Nietzsche's middle writings
- Cooling down the human mind: Nietzsche on philosophy and the philosopher in Human, all too human
- Nietzsche on enlightenment and fanaticism
- Dawn and the passion of knowledge
- A philosophy of modesty: ethics and the search for a care of self
- Philosophical cheerfulness: on The gay science
- On Nietzsche's search for happiness and joy.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Ansell-Pearson, Keith, 1960- Nietzsche's search for philosophy.
- ISBN:
- 9781474254694
- 1474254691
- 9781474254700
- 1474254705
- OCLC:
- 1008776069
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