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Nietzsche and Modern Times - A Study of Bacon, Descartes, and Nietzsche (Paperback, 1st Paperback Ed)
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Nietzsche and Modern Times - A Study of Bacon, Descartes, and Nietzsche (Paperback, 1st Paperback Ed)
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This major work by Laurence Lampert provides a new interpretation
of modern philosophy by developing Nietzsche's view that genuine
philosophers set out to determine the direction of culture through
their ideas and that they conceal the radical nature of their
thought by their esoteric style. From this Nietzschean perspective,
Francis Bacon and Rene Descartes can be considered the founders of
modernity. Lampert argues that Bacon's positive claims for science
aimed to destroy the dominance of Christianity. Descartes continued
Bacon's radical program while providing it with the mathematical
physics required for its success. Far from being solely an
epistemological and metaphysical thinker, says Lampert, Descartes
was a master writer whose comic ridicule helped bring down the
Church to which he paid lip service. Both Bacon and Descartes used
the Platonic art of dissimulation to achieve their ends by making
their revolutionary aims appear compatible with Christianity. Once
we recognize Bacon and Descartes as legislators of modern times in
a specifically Nietzschean sense, we can also see Nietzsche in a
new way-as the first thinker to have understood modern times and
transcended it in a postmodern worldview. According to Lampert,
Nietzsche provides a new foundation for culture, a joyous science
that reveals the grandeur and purposeless play of the cosmic whole
and yet avoids enervating despair or destructive, dogmatic belief.
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