Nietzsche : the meaning of earth / Lucas Murrey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Murrey, Lucas, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900.

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm.

Dionysus (Greek deity).

Dionysus.

Philosophy of nature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (191 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Lehigh University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

<span><span>Lucas Murrey has produced a visionary adaptation of the Nietzschean Dionysiac to illuminate the dysfunctionality of twenty-first century capitalism.</span></span><br /><span><span> </span></span>

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Notes; Abbreviations; Introduction; Rise of Mass Culture and the Visualized Chronotope; Emergence of Unlimited Language; Previous Treatments; Summary; Notes; I: Dionysian Philosophy; 1 Evil Eye; "the poisonous eye of ressentiment"; "machinist and decorative artist"; Notes; 2 Apollo and Dionysus; "tragic myth"; "secret celebrations of dramatic mysteries"; "the public cult of tragedy"; Notes; 3 Dionysian Philosophy; "the Hellenic model"; "Incipit tragoedia"; Notes; 4 Fifty Mirrors around You; "they jingle with their gold"; "Loathsome verbal-swill"

"fifty mirrors around you""to hear with the eyes"; Notes; 5 The Meaning of Earth; "a big eye"; "teeth-gnashing and most lonely melancholy"; "twinkling stars and glow-worms"; "the meaning of earth"; Notes; II: Proto-National Socialism; 6 Despair of the German Spirit; "a permanent, loving bond between German and Greek culture?"; "confused our gaze searches"; Notes; 7 Patriotic Excitation and Aesthetic Opulence; "in the terror and sublimities of the recently out-broken war"; "monstrous intrusive powers from the outside"; "Destruction of Greek culture through the Jewish world"

"And if the German should look about hesitatingly for a Führer"Notes; 8 Blond German Beasts; "false, flickering light"; "happy monsters"; "not only onward, but also upward should you plant"; Notes; 9 Purification of the Race; "the wisdom of Him who is not only the God of the Jews"; "the Aryan conquering race"; "Zarathustra . . . in the Aryan province"; Notes; 10 Jews/Christians; "Jewish history"; "vengeful-addict instincts of an unhappy priest"; "If Christianity remains, the Germans will be to blame"; Notes; Conclusion; "doubtful even about Herakleitos"

"eternal contradiction, Father of all things""the primal problem of tragedy"; "in the ten years of his loneliness"; Notes; Coda; The Bordello in Leipzig; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-61146-155-3