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With his An Interpretation of Nietzsche's "On the Uses and
Disadvantage of History for Life", Anthony K. Jensen shows how
'timely' Nietzsche's second "Untimely Meditation" really is. This
comprehensive and insightful study contextualizes and analyzes a
wide range of Nietzsche's earlier thoughts about history:
teleology, typology, psychology, memory, classical philology,
Hegelianism, and the role historiography plays in modern culture.
On the Uses and Disadvantage of History for Life is shown to be a
'timely' work, too, insofar as it weaves together a number of
Nietzsche's most important influences and thematic directions at
that time: ancient culture, science, epistemology, and the thought
of Schopenhauer and Burckhardt. Rather than dismiss it as a mere
'early' work, Jensen shows how the text resonates in Nietzsche's
later perspectivism, his theory of subjectivity, and Eternal
Recurrence. And by using careful philological analysis of the
text's composition history, Jensen is in position to fully
elucidate and evaluate Nietzsche's arguments in their proper
contexts. As such Jensen's Interpretation should restore
Nietzsche's second "Untimely Meditation" to a prominent place among
19th Century philosophies of history.
With his An Interpretation of Nietzsche's "On the Uses and
Disadvantage of History for Life", Anthony K. Jensen shows how
'timely' Nietzsche's second "Untimely Meditation" really is. This
comprehensive and insightful study contextualizes and analyzes a
wide range of Nietzsche's earlier thoughts about history:
teleology, typology, psychology, memory, classical philology,
Hegelianism, and the role historiography plays in modern culture.
On the Uses and Disadvantage of History for Life is shown to be a
'timely' work, too, insofar as it weaves together a number of
Nietzsche's most important influences and thematic directions at
that time: ancient culture, science, epistemology, and the thought
of Schopenhauer and Burckhardt. Rather than dismiss it as a mere
'early' work, Jensen shows how the text resonates in Nietzsche's
later perspectivism, his theory of subjectivity, and Eternal
Recurrence. And by using careful philological analysis of the
text's composition history, Jensen is in position to fully
elucidate and evaluate Nietzsche's arguments in their proper
contexts. As such Jensen's Interpretation should restore
Nietzsche's second "Untimely Meditation" to a prominent place among
19th Century philosophies of history.
History and memory rank as central themes in the philosophy of
Friedrich Nietzsche. As one of the last philosophers of the 19th
century, Nietzsche naturally belongs to the so-called 'historical
century'. The contentious exchange with the past and with antiquity
- as much as the mechanisms, the dangers, and the lessons of memory
and tradition - are continually examined and stand in close
relationship with Nietzsche's vision of life and his project of
human development. As Jacob Burckhardt once wrote of the cultural
critique to his Basel colleague: "Fundamentally, you are always
teaching history" (9/13/1882). Following Burckhardt's judgment, the
contributors focus on the analysis of core questions in the
philosophies of history and memory, and their respective
convergence in the thought of Nietzsche. The epistemological
relevance of these central concepts will be thematized alongside
those concerning tradition, and education. The discussion of these
rich themes unifies a broad spectrum of questions, ranging from
cultural memory to contemporary philosophy of mind. The
contributions are revised versions of selected papers presented at
the 2018 conference of the annual meeting of the Nietzsche Society
in Naumburg.
Wide-ranging essays making up the first major study of Nietzsche
and the classical tradition in a quarter of a century. This volume
collects a wide-ranging set of essays examining Friedrich
Nietzsche's engagement with antiquity in all its aspects. It
investigates Nietzsche's reaction and response to the concept of
"classicism," with particular reference to his work on Greek
culture as a philologist in Basel and later as a philosopher of
modernity, and to his reception of German classicism in all his
texts. The book should be of interest to students of ancient
history and classics, philosophy, comparative literature, and
Germanistik. Taken together, these papers suggest that classicism
is both a more significant, and a more contested, concept for
Nietzsche than is often realized, and it demonstratesthe need for a
return to a close attention to the intellectual-historical context
in terms of which Nietzsche saw himself operating. An awareness of
the rich variety of academic backgrounds, methodologies, and
techniques of reading evinced in these chapters is perhaps the only
way for the contemporary scholar to come to grips with what
classicism meant for Nietzsche, and hence what Nietzsche means for
us today. The book is divided into five sections -- The Classical
Greeks; Pre-Socratics and Pythagoreans, Cynics and Stoics;
Nietzsche and the Platonic Tradition; Contestations; and German
Classicism -- and constitutes the first major study of Nietzsche
and the classical tradition in a quarter of a century.
Contributors: Jessica N. Berry, Benjamin Biebuyck, Danny Praet and
Isabelle Vanden Poel, Paul Bishop, R. Bracht Branham, Thomas
Brobjer, David Campbell, Alan Cardew, Roy Elveton, Christian Emden,
Simon Gillham, John Hamilton, Mark Hammond, Albert Henrichs, Dirk
t.D. Held, David F. Horkott, Dylan Jaggard, Fiona Jenkins, Anthony
K. Jensen, Laurence Lampert, Nicholas Martin, Thomas A. Meyer,
Burkhard Meyer-Sickendiek, John S. Moore, Neville Morley, David N.
McNeill, James I. Porter, Martin A. Ruehl, Herman Siemens, Barry
Stocker, Friedrich Ulfers and Mark Daniel Cohen, and Peter Yates.
Paul Bishop is William Jacks Chair of Modern Languages at the
University of Glasgow.
Typically, the first decade of Friedrich Nietzsche's career is
considered a sort of precis to his mature thinking. Yet his
philological articles, lectures, and notebooks on Ancient Greek
culture and thought - much of which has received insufficient
scholarly attention - were never intended to serve as a preparatory
ground to future thought. Nietzsche's early scholarship was
intended to express his insights into the character of antiquity.
Many of those insights are not only important for better
understanding Nietzsche; they remain vital for understanding
antiquity today. Interdisciplinary in scope and international in
perspective, this volume investigates Nietzsche as a scholar of
antiquity, offering the first thorough examination of his articles,
lectures, notebooks on Ancient Greek culture and thought in
English. With eleven original chapters by some of the leading
Nietzsche scholars and classicists from around the world and with
reproductions of two definitive essays, this book analyzes
Nietzsche's scholarly methods and aims, his understanding of
antiquity, and his influence on the history of classical studies.
Nietzsche, the so-called herald of the 'philosophy of the future',
nevertheless dealt with the past on nearly every page of his
writing. Not only was he concerned with how past values, cultural
practices and institutions influence the present - he was plainly
aware that any attempt to understand that influence encounters many
meta-historical problems. This comprehensive and lucid exposition
of the development of Nietzsche's philosophy of history explores
how Nietzsche thought about history and historiography throughout
his life and how it affected his most fundamental ideas. Discussion
of the whole span of Nietzsche's writings, from his earliest
publications as a classical philologist to his later genealogical
and autobiographical projects, is interwoven with careful analysis
of his own forms of writing history, the nineteenth-century
paradigms which he critiqued, and the twentieth-century views which
he anticipated. The book will be of much interest to scholars of
Nietzsche and of nineteenth-century philosophy.
Typically, the first decade of Friedrich Nietzsche's career is
considered a sort of precis to his mature thinking. Yet his
philological articles, lectures, and notebooks on Ancient Greek
culture and thought - much of which has received insufficient
scholarly attention - were never intended to serve as a preparatory
ground to future thought. Nietzsche's early scholarship was
intended to express his insights into the character of antiquity.
Many of those insights are not only important for better
understanding Nietzsche; they remain vital for understanding
antiquity today. Interdisciplinary in scope and international in
perspective, this volume investigates Nietzsche as a scholar of
antiquity, offering the first thorough examination of his articles,
lectures, notebooks on Ancient Greek culture and thought in
English. With eleven original chapters by some of the leading
Nietzsche scholars and classicists from around the world and with
reproductions of two definitive essays, this book analyzes
Nietzsche's scholarly methods and aims, his understanding of
antiquity, and his influence on the history of classical studies.
Nietzsche, the so-called herald of the 'philosophy of the future',
nevertheless dealt with the past on nearly every page of his
writing. Not only was he concerned with how past values, cultural
practices and institutions influence the present - he was plainly
aware that any attempt to understand that influence encounters many
meta-historical problems. This comprehensive and lucid exposition
of the development of Nietzsche's philosophy of history explores
how Nietzsche thought about history and historiography throughout
his life and how it affected his most fundamental ideas. Discussion
of the whole span of Nietzsche's writings, from his earliest
publications as a classical philologist to his later genealogical
and autobiographical projects, is interwoven with careful analysis
of his own forms of writing history, the nineteenth-century
paradigms which he critiqued, and the twentieth-century views which
he anticipated. The book will be of much interest to scholars of
Nietzsche and of nineteenth-century philosophy.
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