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Nietzsche's Free Spirit Works : A Dialectical Reading by Matthew Meyer (2021, Trade Paperback)

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The book will appeal to anyone who is interested in Nietzsche's philosophy and especially to those puzzled about how to understand the peculiarities of the free spirit works.

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PublisherCambridge University Press

ISBN-101108463908

ISBN-139781108463904

eBay Product ID (ePID)22038758852

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Number of Pages289 Pages

Publication NameNietzsche's Free Spirit Works : a Dialectical Reading

LanguageEnglish

SubjectIndividual Philosophers, History & Surveys / Modern

Publication Year2021

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaPhilosophy

AuthorMatthew Meyer

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.6 in

Item Length9 in

Item Width5.9 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2018-050896

Dewey Edition23

Reviews'This is a superb intellectual history of Nietzsche's philosophical quest to emancipate his self-legislating spirit from the debilitating influences of metaphysics, religion, morality, and the scientific desire for truth at all costs.' Paul S. Loeb, University of Puget Sound, Washington

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal193

Table Of ContentIntroduction; 1. Interpreting Nietzsche's free spirit works; 2. A defense of the dialectical reading; Part I. The Ascetic Camel: 3. For the love of truth: Human, All Too Human; 4. An Epicurean in exile: Assorted Opinions and Maxims and The Wanderer and His Shadow; Part II. The Dragon-Slaying Lion: 5. Undermining the prejudices of morality: Daybreak; 6. The Selbstaufhebung of the will to truth: The Gay Science I-III; Part III. The Dionysian Child: 7. Incipit Tragoedia: from The Gay Science IV to Thus Spoke Zarathustra; 8. Incipit Parodia: from the free spirit to the philosophy of the future?

SynopsisBetween 1878 and 1882, Nietzsche published what he called 'the free spirit works': Human, All Too Human; Assorted Opinions and Maxims; The Wanderer and His Shadow; Daybreak; and The Gay Science. Often approached as a mere assemblage of loosely connected aphorisms, these works are here re-interpreted as a coherent narrative of the steps Nietzsche takes in educating himself toward freedom that executes a dialectic between scientific truth-seeking and artistic life-affirmation. Matthew Meyer's new reading of these works not only provides a more convincing explanation of their content but also makes better sense of the relationship between them and Nietzsche's larger oeuvre. His argument shows how these texts can and should be read as a unified project even while they present multiple, in some cases conflicting, images of the free spirit. The book will appeal to anyone who is interested in Nietzsche's philosophy and especially to those puzzled about how to understand the peculiarities of the free spirit works., Often considered mere assemblages of aphorisms, the free spirit works - Human, All Too Human; Assorted Opinions and Maxims; The Wanderer and His Shadow; Daybreak; and The Gay Science - are here presented as a coherent narrative of Nietzsche's self-education. The book explores these works' role in Nietzsche's wider philosophy.

LC Classification NumberB3317.M55193 2019