Understanding Nietzsche, understanding modernism / edited by Brian Pines and Douglas Burnham.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pines, Brian, editor.

Burnham, Douglas, editor.

Series:

Understanding philosophy, understanding modernism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900--Criticism and interpretation.

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm.

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900.

Philosophy, Modern.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

xi, 327 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.

Summary:

Nietzsche believed his own work represented the dawning of a new historical era, and, despite the fact that he lived most of his sane life suffering in obscurity, it is not an exaggeration to say that his vision helped lay the foundations for modernism in style, substance and attitude. Nietzsche was himself devoted to the modern, for he reinterpreted every philosophy, every historical figure and event, every movement that came before him. This reconceptualization of the past through new, modern eyes opened up Nietzsche's thinking to exploring daring possibilities for the future. This prophetic boldness, which is so unique to his style, seduced the modernist generation across the spectrum. He was read by early Zionists as well as by Nazi racial theorists; by Thomas Mann and as well as by Salvador Dali. His influence stretched from psychoanalysis to anarchist politics. Understanding Nietzsche, Understanding Modernism begins by outlining the major conceptual structures of Nietzsche's work. This first section is a series of essays, each of which explores a major work of Nietzsche's, explaining its significance while contributing new interpretations of the text. The middle portion connects Nietzsche's thought to the various strands of modernism in which it reveals itself. The final section is a glossary of key terms that Nietzsche uses throughout his works.

Contents:

Introduction : the heroism of Friedrich Nietzsche / Brian Pines

Nonhuman transcendence : art and non-anthropocentrism in The Birth of Tragedy / Patricia Valderrama

Nietzsche's dawn of dissent : Morgenröte and the modernist impulse / Siobhan Lyons

On the way to Nietzsche's "ticklish truths" : comedy, poetry, and chance in The Gay Science / SJ Cowan

"What do you matter?" : Nietzsche's Zarathustra, individualism, and Modernism / Douglas Burnham

Der Antichrist : a book for barbarians, slaves, and cave dwellers / Brian Pines

Twilight of the Idols and the dawn of modernity / Karl Laderoute

Peacocks and buffalos : Nietzsche and the problems of modern spectacle / Yunus Tuncel

Not another image of torment : Nietzsche, eternal recurrence, and theatricality / Jeremy Killian

The birth of Dada, out of the spirit of nihilism / Kaitlyn Creasy

Nietzsche's decadent modernism / Adrian Switzer

Nietzsche's relation with psychoanalysis : from Freud to surrealist modernism, Bataille, and Lacan / Tim Themi

Nietzsche, Jung, and modern militancy / Ritske Rensma

Streams of becoming : Nietzsche, physiology, and literary modernism / Jill Marsden

And death shall have no dominion : Dylan Thomas, Friedrich Nietzsche, and tragic joy / James Luchte

Responding to the crisis of philosophy in modernity : from Nietzsche's perspectivism to Musil's essayism / Sebastian Hüsch

Mann > modernism < Nietzsche / Bill McDonald

Dionysiac / Douglas Burnham

Decadence / Jack Brookes

From Zoroaster to Zarathustra / Matthew John Grabowski

Figuration and imagery / Gill Zimmerman

Danger / SJ Cowan, Brian Pines

The eternal recurrence / Karl Laderoute

The win to power / Karl Laderoute

The revaluation of all values / Brian Pines.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1501339141

9781501339141

OCLC:

1028827348