Nietzsche - The Key Ideas [electronic resource].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jackson, Roy.

Series:

Teach Yourself General

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (193 p.)

Place of Publication:

London : Hodder Education, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Nietzsche - The Key Ideas is a comprehensive guide to one of the most influential and controversial philosophers of modern times.

Contents:

Cover; Book title; Contents; Only got a munites?; Only got five minutes?; Only got ten minutes?; Meet the author; Introduction; 1 Nietzsche's early life 1844-79; Nietzsche's background; Tragedy strikes; Nietzsche's education; The professor; The influence of Wagner; The Bayreuth Festival of 1876; The influence of Schopenhauer; 2 Nietzsche's later life and death 1879-1900; Malwida von Meysenbug (1816-1903) and Paul Rée (1849-1901); Nietzsche's 'wanderings'; Lou von Salomé (1861-1937); The final years; The Nietzsche Archive; 3 The Birth of Tragedy; The 'theoretical man'; Apollo and Dionysus

The importance of cultureThe value of Greek tragedy; 4 The revaluation of all values; Morality; The death of God; Nietzsche's naturalism; Slave morality; Ressentiment; The priests; The revaluation of all values; 5 The will to power; What is the will to power?; The enigma of the will to power; First interpretation: an objective explanation for everything; Second interpretation: a subjective interpretation; A third interpretation: the will to power as empirically true; Concluding remarks; 6 Zarathustra, the Superman and the eternal recurrence; Thus Spoke Zarathustra

A brief summary of Thus Spoke ZarathustraThe eternal recurrence; The Superman; After Zarathustra; Nihilism; Amor fati; The need for consolation; 7 On truth and perspectivism; Varieties of truth; Nietzsche's perspectivism; Reason and the senses; The importance of language; 8 Nietzsche and religion; Nietzsche's religiosity; Nietzsche as a 'sort' of atheist; Nietzsche the Lutheran; Nietzsche and 'inspiration'; Religion as life-enhancing; On Islam; Myth, modernity and monumental history; Religion and the state; On Buddhism; 9 Nietzsche and politics; Democracy; The immoralist?; On women

The philosophers of the futureDoes Nietzsche have any political views?; 10 Nietzsche's legacy; Nazism; Twentieth-century French philosophy; The analytic tradition; Art; Other influences; Glossary; Taking it further; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-282-95764-3

9786612957642

1-4441-2635-0

OCLC:

701704441