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Nietzsche - An Introduction (Paperback)
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Nietzsche - An Introduction (Paperback)
Series: Cultural Memory in the Present Series
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This book is both a concise and lucid introduction to Nietzsche and
an original contribution to critical debates concerning Nietzsche
interpretation and reception. This overview takes issue with the
prevailing tendency to focus on Nietzsche's later work, which
reaches its extreme with Heidegger's almost exclusive focus on the
group of late notes posthumously collected as "The Will to Power."
Vattimo aims to mediate between two prominent hermeneutic readings
of Nietzsche: Wilhelm Dilthey's view that Nietzsche's work fits
into the nineteenth-century tradition of the philosophy of life and
Heidegger's belief that Nietzsche is best understood as the author
of a pair of ontological doctrines, the will to power and the
eternal return of the same.
Vattimo aims to show that Nietzsche's early interest in cultural
and historical criticism can be found throughout his corpus and
that it informs, and helps to explain, Nietzsche's later doctrines
and writings. This allows us to understand these later doctrines in
a deeper way, to see their connections with his wider concerns, and
thus to make greater sense of Nietzsche's philosophy as a whole.
This working hypothesis guides Vattimo through his elegant
exposition of the basic views of the early and late Nietzsche, from
the philological beginnings and the musings on Dionysus through the
so-called positivist phase of the middle period up to the
philosophy of Zarathustra and the fragmented insights that bespeak
the will to power. Throughout, Vattimo's intellectual agenda is to
present the philosophical relevance of a cultural criticism that
does not let itself be reduced to a merely literary presentation of
the psychology of decadence and nihilism, or to the grand
ontological-metaphysical finale that Heidegger had in mind in his
monumental Nietzsche studies.
As an appendix, Vattimo provides a history of Nietzsche reception
in Europe that counters the narrow Anglo-American bias of much
English-language Nietzsche scholarship.
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