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Nietzsche in the Nineteenth Century - Social Questions and Philosophical Interventions (Hardcover)
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Nietzsche in the Nineteenth Century - Social Questions and Philosophical Interventions (Hardcover)
Series: Intellectual History of the Modern Age
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Friedrich Nietzsche is often depicted in popular and scholarly
discourse as a lonely philosopher dealing with abstract concerns
unconnected to the intellectual debates of his time and place.
Robert C. Holub counters this narrative, arguing that Nietzsche was
very well attuned to the events and issues of his era and responded
to them frequently in his writings. Organized around nine important
questions circulating in Europe at the time in the realms of
politics, society, and science, Nietzsche in the Nineteenth Century
presents a thorough investigation of Nietzsche's familiarity with
contemporary life, his contact with and comments on these various
questions, and the sources from which he gathered his knowledge.
Holub begins his analysis with Nietzsche's views on education,
nationhood, and the working-class movement, turns to questions of
women and women's emancipation, colonialism, and Jews and Judaism,
and looks at Nietzsche's dealings with evolutionary biology,
cosmological theories, and the new "science" of eugenics. He shows
how Nietzsche, although infrequently read during his lifetime,
formulated his thought in an ongoing dialogue with the concerns of
his contemporaries, and how his philosophy can be conceived as a
contribution to the debates taking place in the nineteenth century.
Throughout his examination, Holub finds that, against conventional
wisdom, Nietzsche was only indirectly in conversation with the
modern philosophical tradition from Descartes through German
idealism, and that the books and individuals central to his
development were more obscure writers, most of whom have long since
been forgotten. This book thus sheds light on Nietzsche's thought
as enmeshed in a web of nineteenth-century discourses and offers
new insights into his interactive method of engaging with the
philosophical universe of his time.
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