The Romance of Individualism in Emerson and Nietzsche (Hardcover, 1)

The great American thinker Ralph Waldo Emerson and the influential German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, though writing in different eras and ultimately developing significantly different philosophies, both praised the individual's wish to be transformed, to be fully created for the first time. Emerson and Nietzsche challenge us to undertake the task of identity on our own, in order to see (in Nietzsche's phrase) "how one becomes what one is."
David Mikics's "The Romance of Individualism in Emerson and Nietzsche" examines the argument, as well as the affinity, between these two philosophers. Nietzsche was an enthusiastic reader of Emerson and inherited from him an interest in provocation as a means of instruction, an understanding of the permanent importance of moods and transitory moments in our lives, and a sense of the revolutionary character of impulse. Both were deliberately outrageous thinkers, striving to shake us out of our complacency.
Rather than choosing between Emerson and Nietzsche, Professor Mikics attends to Nietzsche's struggle with Emerson's example and influence. Elegant in its delivery, "The Romance of Individualism in Emerson and Nietzsche" offers a significant commentary on the visions of several contemporary theorists whose interests intersect with those of Emerson and Nietzsche, especially Stanley Cavell, Jacques Lacan, Slavoj Zizek, and Harold Bloom.

General

Imprint:	Ohio University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Series in Continental Thought
Release date:	June 2003
First published:	June 2003
Authors:	David Mikics
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	278
Edition:	1
ISBN-13:	978-0-8214-1496-5
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > General Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > General Promotions
LSN:	0-8214-1496-8
Barcode:	9780821414965

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