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Individuality and Beyond - Nietzsche Reads Emerson (Hardcover)
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Individuality and Beyond - Nietzsche Reads Emerson (Hardcover)
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Though few might think to connect the two figures, Ralph Waldo
Emerson was an important influence on Friedrich Nietzsche.
Specifically, Emerson played a fundamental role in shaping
Nietzsche's philosophical ideas on individualism, perfectionism,
and the pursuit of virtue, as well as his critiques of social
conditioning, religious dogmatism, and anti-natural morality. With
Individuality and Beyond, Benedetta Zavatta offers the first
philosophical interpretation of Emerson's influence on Nietzsche
based on a sound philological analysis of previously unpublished
materials from Nietzsche's private library. Nietzsche's collection
reveals numerous copies of Emerson's essays covered with
annotations and marginalia as Nietzsche revisited these works
throughout his life. Through close-reading, Zavatta casts a new
light on the ways in which Emerson's work informed Nietzsche's
defining ideas of self-creation, the relation between fate and free
will, overcoming morality of customs and achieving moral autonomy,
and the "transvaluation" of such values as compassion and altruism.
Zavatta organizes these concepts into two main lines of thought:
the first concerns the development of the individual personality,
or the achievement of intellectual and moral autonomy and original
self-expression. The second, on the contrary, concerns the
overcoming of individuality and the need to transcend a limited
view of the world by continually questioning one's own values and
engaging with opposing perspectives. Ultimately, Zavatta clarifies
the surprising contributions that Emerson made to 20th century
European philosophy. She provides a fresh portrait of Emerson as an
American thinker long stereotyped as a naive idealist disinterested
in the social issues of his day. Seen through the eyes of
Nietzsche, his acute interpreter, Emerson becomes an incisive
cultural critic, whose contributions underpin contemporary
philosophy.
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