Unmodern Observations (Unzeitgemässe Betrachtungen) / Linda R. Wires.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wires, Linda R., Author.

Contributor:

Arrowsmith, William, 1924-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Strauss, David Friedrich, 1808-1874.

Strauss, David Friedrich.

Schopenhauer, Arthur, 1788-1860.

Schopenhauer, Arthur.

Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883.

Wagner, Richard.

History--Study and teaching.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Other Title:

Unzeitgemässe Betrachtungen.

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [1965]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This translation of Nietzsche's early Unzeitgemässe Betrachtungen consists of four long essays and notes for a fifth. Nietzsche planned these works as part of an extremely ambitious critique of German culture. Although the project was never completed, the essays thematically linked and should be considered as a whole. This book, which presents these important works together in English for the first time, unifies the essays, provides introductions and annotations to each, and translates them in a way that does justice to the brilliance and versatility of Nietzsche's style. The dominant idea of Nietzsche's project is the regeneration of culture through a radical reshaping of modern educational institutions. Nietzsche believed that philosophy, the arts, and the ennobling study of antiquity had all been corrupted by systematic miseducation, the work of so-called educators, who, as culture-philistines, had disgraced the highest of vocations. In response to this fragmented modern world, Nietasche argues for the creation of a"manworthy" culture with a single uniftying style-a style that integrated theology, philosophy, education, classical scholarship, journalism, and art in a seamless, dynamic whole. This style, Nietzsche contends, can best be realized by heeding the great creative examples of the pre-Socratic philosophers, Schopenhauer, and Wagner, and by reforming education, above all the study of history and the archaic culture of Greece, so that it serves, rather than obstructs, the needs of human life. The essays include David Strauss: Writer and Confessor, introduced and translated by Herbert Golder; History in the Service and Disservice of Life, introduced by Werner Dannhauser and translated by Gary Brown; Schopenhauer as Educator, introduced by Richard Schacht and translated by William Arrowsmith; Richard Wagner in Bayreuth, introduced and translated by Gary Brown; and We Classicists, introduced and translated by William Arrowsmith.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Abbreviations Of Nietzsche's Works

XI. Foreword

David Strauss: Writer And Confessor

History In The Service And Disservice Of Life

Schopenhauer As Educator

Richard Wagner In Bayreuth

We Classicists

About The Contributors

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780300161854

0300161859

OCLC:

1024028681