American Nietzsche : a history of an icon and his ideas / Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ratner-Rosenhagen, Jennifer.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900.

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm.

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900--Influence.

Philosophy, American.

United States--Civilization--German influences.

United States.

Civilization.

United States--Intellectual life.

Intellectual life.

Physical Description:

452 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2012]

Contents:

Chapter 1 The Making of the American Nietzsche 29

Nietzsche and the European Axis of American Cosmopolitanism 35

The Nietzsche Vogue 45

The Persona of Nietzsche 51

Launching "Nietzschean" and "Nietzscheism" into American English 67

Chapter 2 The Soul of Man under Modernity 69

Nietzsche and the Problems of Modern Thought 75

Unapologetic Catholic Apologetics 80

The Social Gospel and the Practicability of Christianity 87

Nietzsche's Service to Christianity 94

Jesus of Nazareth, Nietzsche of Naumburg 99

Chapter 3 The American Naturalization of the Übermensch 109

The Übermensch in the Popular Imagination 112

Self-Overcoming and Social Uplift 116

Modern Whirl and Romantic Self-Abandonment 126

The Übermensch and the German National Mind 132

The Übermensch at War and the "Made in Germany" Generation 136

To Each His Own Übermensch 144

Chapter 4 Nietzsche as Educator 149

Experiencing Intellect; or, World-Making Words 154

Imitatio Nietzsche 167

The "Gay Science" of Cultural Criticism 176

The Modern Intellect and Prophetic Longing 190

INTERLUDE: Devotions: The Letters 193

Nietzsche Possession, Possessing Nietzsche 199

Nietzschean Self-Fashioning 203

Nietzsche Pilgrimage 209

Pathos of Distance from Democratic Culture 210

Chapter 5 Dionysian Enlightenment 219

Walter Kaufmann, German Émigrés, and Nietzsche as Hider's Exile 224

Nietzsche as Problem Thinker 233

Nietzsche and the Nazis 239

Nietzschean Experimentalism and Jamesian Pragmatism 244

Counter-Dionysian Enlightenments 250

Kaufmann's Nietzsche for All and None 260

Chapter 6 Antifoundationalism on Native Grounds 263

Harold Bloom: The Quest for Emersonian Priority 274

Richard Rorty: Fusing the Horizons between Nietzsche and the Pragmatists 285

Stanley Cavell: Nietzsche, Emerson, and American Philosophy Finding Its Way Home 295

Thinking about American Thinking 304.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-442) and index.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Zebooker fund bookplate.

ISBN:

9780226705811 ;