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Friedrich Nietzsche's intellectual autobiography Ecce Homo has
always been a controversial book. Nietzsche prepared it for
publication just before he became incurably insane in early 1889,
but it was held back until after his death, and finally appeared
only in 1908. For much of the first century of its reception, Ecce
Homo met with a sceptical response and was viewed as merely a
testament to its author's incipient madness. This was hardly
surprising, since he is deliberately outrageous with the
'megalomaniacal' self-advertisement of his chapter titles, and
brazenly claims 'I am not a man, I am dynamite' as he attempts to
explode one preconception after another in the Western
philosophical tradition. In recent decades there has been increased
interest in the work, especially in the English-speaking world, but
the present volume is the first collection of essays in any
language devoted to the work. Most of the essays are selected from
the proceedings of an international conference held in London to
mark the centenary of the first publication of Ecce Homo in 2008.
They are supplemented by a number of specially commissioned essays.
Contributors include established and emerging Nietzsche scholars
from the UK and USA, Germany and France, Portugal, Sweden and the
Netherlands.
An advanced introduction for students and a re-orientation for
Nietzsche scholars and intellectual historians on the development
of his thought and the aesthetic construction of his identity as a
philosopher. Nietzsche looms over modern literature and thought;
according to Gottfried Benn, "everything my generation discussed,
thought through innerly; one could say: suffered; or one could even
say: took to the point of exhaustion -- allof it had already been
said . . . by Nietzsche; all the rest was just exegesis."
Nietzsche's influence on intellectual life today is arguably as
great; witness the various societies, journals, and websites and
the steady stream ofpapers, collections, and monographs. This
Companion offers new essays from the best Nietzsche scholars,
emphasizing the interrelatedness of his life and thought, eschewing
a superficial biographical method but taking seriously his claim
that great philosophy is "the self-confession of its author and a
kind of unintended and unremarked memoir." Each essay examines a
major work by Nietzsche; together, they offer an advanced
introduction for students of German Studies, philosophy, and
comparative literature as well as for the lay reader.
Re-establishing the links between Nietzsche's philosophical texts
and their biographical background, the volume alerts
Nietzschescholars and intellectual historians to the internal
development of his thought and the aesthetic construction of his
identity as a philosopher. Contributors: Ruth Abbey, Keith
Ansell-Pearson, Rebecca Bamford, Paul Bishop, Thomas H. Brobjer,
Daniel W. Conway, Adrian Del Caro, Carol Diethe, Michael Allen
Gillespie and Keegan F. Callanan, Laurence Lampert, Duncan Large,
Martin Liebscher, Martine Prange, Alan D. Schrift. Paul Bishop is
William Jacks Chair of Modern Languages at the University of
Glasgow.
The year 1888 marked the last year of Friedrich Nietzsche's
intellectual career and the culmination of his philosophical
development. In that final productive year, he worked on six books,
all of which are now, for the first time, presented in English in a
single volume. Together these new translations provide a
fundamental and complete introduction to Nietzsche's mature thought
and to the virtuosity and versatility of his most fully developed
style. The writings included here have a bold, sometimes radical
tone that can be connected to Nietzsche's rising profile and
growing confidence. In The Antichrist, we are offered an extended
critique of Christianity and Christian morality alongside blunt
diagnoses of contemporary Europe's cultural decadence. In Dionysus
Dithyrambs we are presented with his only work composed exclusively
of poetry, and in Twilight of the Idols we find a succinct summary
of his mature philosophical views. At times the works are also
openly personal, as in The Case of Wagner, which presents
Nietzsche's attempt to settle accounts with his former close
friend, German composer Richard Wagner, and in his provocative
autobiography, Ecce Homo, which sees Nietzsche taking stock of his
past and future while also reflecting on many of his earlier texts.
Scrupulously edited, this critical volume also includes commentary
by esteemed Nietzsche scholar Andreas Urs Sommer. Through this new
collection, students and scholars are given an essential
introduction to Nietzsche's late thought.
This volume is the first of its kind to explore the notion of
untranslatability from a wide variety of interdisciplinary
perspectives and its implications within the broader context of
translation studies. Featuring contributions from both leading
authorities and emerging scholars in the field, the book looks to
go beyond traditional comparisons of target texts and their sources
to more rigorously investigate the myriad ways in which the term
untranslatability is both conceptualized and applied. The first
half of the volume focuses on untranslatability as a theoretical or
philosophical construct, both to ground and extend the term's
conceptual remit, while the second half is composed of case studies
in which the term is applied and contextualized in a diverse set of
literary text types and genres, including poetry, philosophical
works, song lyrics, memoir, and scripture. A final chapter examines
untranslatability in the real world and the challenges it brings in
practical contexts. Extending the conversation in this burgeoning
contemporary debate, this volume is key reading for graduate
students and researchers in translation studies, comparative
literature, gender studies, and philosophy of language. The editors
are grateful to the University of East Anglia Faculty of Arts and
Humanities, who supported the book with a publication grant.
The year 1888 marked the last year of Friedrich Nietzsche's
intellectual career and the culmination of his philosophical
development. In that final productive year, he worked on six books,
all of which are now, for the first time, presented in English in a
single volume. Together these new translations provide a
fundamental and complete introduction to Nietzsche's mature thought
and to the virtuosity and versatility of his most fully developed
style. The writings included here have a bold, sometimes radical
tone that can be connected to Nietzsche's rising profile and
growing confidence. In The Antichrist, we are offered an extended
critique of Christianity and Christian morality alongside blunt
diagnoses of contemporary Europe's cultural decadence. In Dionysus
Dithyrambs we are presented with his only work composed exclusively
of poetry, and in Twilight of the Idols we find a succinct summary
of his mature philosophical views. At times the works are also
openly personal, as in The Case of Wagner, which presents
Nietzsche's attempt to settle accounts with his former close
friend, German composer Richard Wagner, and in his provocative
autobiography, Ecce Homo, which sees Nietzsche taking stock of his
past and future while also reflecting on many of his earlier texts.
Scrupulously edited, this critical volume also includes commentary
by esteemed Nietzsche scholar Andreas Urs Sommer. Through this new
collection, students and scholars are given an essential
introduction to Nietzsche's late thought.
This book combines a Nietzschean reading of Proust's novel A la recherche du temps perdu with a Proustian reading of Nietzsche's philosophy. It focuses on the problem of knowledge, the status of the self, the experience of transcendence, and the complex time structures in the works of the two writers.
With this latest book in the series, Stanford continues its
English-language publication of the famed Colli-Montinari edition
of Nietzsche's complete works, which include the philosopher's
notebooks and early unpublished writings. Scrupulously edited so as
to establish a new standard for the field, each volume includes an
Afterword that presents and contextualizes the material therein.
This volume provides the first English translation of Nietzsche's
unpublished notebooks from 1882–1884, the period in which he was
composing the book that he considered his best and most important
work, Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Crucial transitional documents in
Nietzsche's intellectual development, the notebooks mark a shift
into what is widely regarded as the philosopher's mature period.
They reveal his long-term design of a fictional tetralogy charting
the philosophical, pedagogical, and psychological journeys of his
alter-ego, Zarathustra. Here, in nuce, appear Zarathustra's
teaching about the death of God; his discovery that the secret of
life is the will to power; and his most profound and most
frightening thought—that his own life, human history, and the
entire cosmos will eternally return. During this same period,
Nietzsche was also composing preparatory notes for his next book,
Beyond Good and Evil, and the notebooks are especially significant
for the insight they provide into his evolving theory of drives,
his critical ideas about the nature and history of morality, and
his initial thoughts on one of his best-known concepts, the
superhuman (Übermensch).
This volume is the first of its kind to explore the notion of
untranslatability from a wide variety of interdisciplinary
perspectives and its implications within the broader context of
translation studies. Featuring contributions from both leading
authorities and emerging scholars in the field, the book looks to
go beyond traditional comparisons of target texts and their sources
to more rigorously investigate the myriad ways in which the term
untranslatability is both conceptualized and applied. The first
half of the volume focuses on untranslatability as a theoretical or
philosophical construct, both to ground and extend the term's
conceptual remit, while the second half is composed of case studies
in which the term is applied and contextualized in a diverse set of
literary text types and genres, including poetry, philosophical
works, song lyrics, memoir, and scripture. A final chapter examines
untranslatability in the real world and the challenges it brings in
practical contexts. Extending the conversation in this burgeoning
contemporary debate, this volume is key reading for graduate
students and researchers in translation studies, comparative
literature, gender studies, and philosophy of language. The editors
are grateful to the University of East Anglia Faculty of Arts and
Humanities, who supported the book with a publication grant.
This long-overdue translation brings to the English-speaking world
the work that set the tone for the post-structuralist reading of
Nietzsche. The issue of style, of why Nietzsche wrote as he did, is
fundamental, on any level, to reading his texts. Some Nietzsche
critics (in particular, those, such as Jean Granier, indebted to
Heidegger's reading), in effect translated Nietzsche's terms back
into those of a philosophy of ontology. This book (which includes
an appendix specifically directed against the "Heideggerian"
reading) shows how such an approach fails to interrogate the
precise terms, such as "Nature" or "life", that Nietzsche used in
place of "being," and to ask the meaning of this substitution. The
author gives not only a reading of Nietzsche's ideas, but a method
for investigating his style. She shows in great detail how it
influences both Nietzsche's ideas and the way in which they are to
be understood. In so doing, she exemplifies how post-structuralist
methods can be used to open up classical philosophical texts to new
readings. She write conceptually in the knowledge that the concept
has no greater value than metaphor and is itself a condensation of
metaphors, rather than writing metaphorically as a way of
denigrating the concept and proposing metaphor as the norm, and
thus acknowledges the specificity of philosophy, its irreducibility
to any other form of expression-even when this philosophy has
nothing traditional about it any longer, even when it is, like
Nietzsche's an unheard-of and insolent philosophy.
An advanced introduction for students and a re-orientation for
Nietzsche scholars and intellectual historians on the development
of his thought and the aesthetic construction of his identity as a
philosopher. Nietzsche looms over modern literature and thought;
according to Gottfried Benn, "everything my generation discussed,
thought through innerly; one could say: suffered; or one could even
say: took to the point of exhaustion -- allof it had already been
said . . . by Nietzsche; all the rest was just exegesis."
Nietzsche's influence on intellectual life today is arguably as
great; witness the various societies, journals, and websites and
the steady stream ofpapers, collections, and monographs. This
Companion offers new essays from the best Nietzsche scholars,
emphasizing the interrelatedness of his life and thought, eschewing
a superficial biographical method but taking seriously his claim
that great philosophy is "the self-confession of its author and a
kind of unintended and unremarked memoir." Each essay examines a
major work by Nietzsche; together, they offer an advanced
introduction for students of German Studies, philosophy, and
comparative literature as well as for the lay reader.
Re-establishing the links between Nietzsche's philosophical texts
and their biographical background, the volume alerts
Nietzschescholars and intellectual historians to the internal
development of his thought and the aesthetic construction of his
identity as a philosopher. Contributors: Ruth Abbey, Keith
Ansell-Pearson, Rebecca Bamford, Paul Bishop, Thomas H. Brobjer,
Daniel W. Conway, Adrian Del Caro, Carol Diethe, Michael Allen
Gillespie and Keegan F. Callanan, Laurence Lampert, Duncan Large,
Martin Liebscher, Martine Prange, Alan D. Schrift. Paul Bishop is
William Jacks Chair of Modern Languages at the University of
Glasgow.
The first book that presents key original texts from the modern
German philosophical tradition to English-language students and
scholars of German, with introductions, commentaries, and
annotations that make them accessible. German-language thinkers
such as Kant, Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud are central to modernity.
Yet their reception in the English-speaking world has largely
depended on translations, a situation that has often hampered full
engagement with the rhetorical and philosophical complexity of the
German history of ideas. The present volume, the first of its kind,
is a response to this situation. After an introduction charting the
remarkable flowering of German-language thought since the
eighteenth century, it offers extracts - in the original German -
from sixteen major philosophical texts, with extensive
introductions and annotations in English. All extracts are
carefully chosen to introduce the individual thinkers while
allowing the reader to pursue broader themes such as the fate of
reason or the history of modern selfhood. The book offers students
and scholars of German a complement to linguistic, historical,
andliterary study by giving them access to the wealth of
German-language philosophy. It represents a new way into the work
of a succession of thinkers who have defined modern philosophy and
thus remain of crucial relevance today. The philosophers: Immanuel
Kant, G. W. F. Hegel, Ludwig Feuerbach, Karl Marx, Arthur
Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, Martin Heidegger,
Walter Benjamin, Georg Lukacs, Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno,
Jurgen Habermas. Henk de Berg is Professor of German at the
University of Sheffield. Duncan Large is Professor of European
Literature and Translation at the University of East Anglia.
'I am not a man, I am dynamite.' Ecce Homo is an autobiography like
no other. Deliberately provocative, Nietzsche subverts the
conventions of the genre and pushes his philosophical positions to
combative extremes, constructing a genius-hero whose life is a
chronicle of incessant self-overcoming. Written in 1888, a few
weeks before his descent into madness, the book sub-titled 'How To
Become What You Are' passes under review all Nietzsche's previous
works so that we, his 'posthumous' readers, can finally understand
him aright, on his own terms. He reaches final reckonings with his
many enemies - Richard Wagner, German nationalism, 'modern men' in
general - and above all Christianity, proclaiming himself the
Antichrist. Ecce Homo is the summation of an extraordinary
philosophical career, a last great testament to Nietzsche's will.
ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has
made available the widest range of literature from around the
globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to
scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of
other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading
authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date
bibliographies for further study, and much more.
With this latest book in the series, Stanford continues its
English-language publication of the famed Colli-Montinari edition
of Nietzsche's complete works, which include the philosopher's
notebooks and early unpublished writings. Scrupulously edited so as
to establish a new standard for the field, each volume includes an
Afterword that presents and contextualizes the material therein.
This volume provides the first English translation of Nietzsche's
unpublished notebooks from 1882–1884, the period in which he was
composing the book that he considered his best and most important
work, Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Crucial transitional documents in
Nietzsche's intellectual development, the notebooks mark a shift
into what is widely regarded as the philosopher's mature period.
They reveal his long-term design of a fictional tetralogy charting
the philosophical, pedagogical, and psychological journeys of his
alter-ego, Zarathustra. Here, in nuce, appear Zarathustra's
teaching about the death of God; his discovery that the secret of
life is the will to power; and his most profound and most
frightening thought—that his own life, human history, and the
entire cosmos will eternally return. During this same period,
Nietzsche was also composing preparatory notes for his next book,
Beyond Good and Evil, and the notebooks are especially significant
for the insight they provide into his evolving theory of drives,
his critical ideas about the nature and history of morality, and
his initial thoughts on one of his best-known concepts, the
superhuman (Übermensch).
`Anyone who wants to gain a quick idea of how before me everything
was topsy-turvy should make a start with this work. That which is
called idol on the title-page is quite simply that which was called
truth hitherto. Twilight of the Idols - in plain words: the old
truth is coming to an end...' Nietzsche intended Twilight of the
Idols to serve as a short introduction to his philosophy, and as a
result it is the most synoptic of all his books. Continuing in the
spirit of its immediate predecessors On The Genealogy of Morals and
The Wagner Case, it is a masterpiece of polemic, targeting not only
`eternal idols' like Socratic rationality and Christian morality
but also their contemporary counterparts, as Nietzsche the
`untimely man' goes roaming in the gloaming of nineteenth-century
European culture. He allies philosophy with psychology and
physiology, relentlessly diagnozing the symptoms of decadence, and
his stylistic virtuosity is such that the sheer delight he takes in
his 'demonic' mischief-making communicates itself on every page. A
brilliant new translation, this edition provides detailed
commentary on a highly condensed and allusive work. ABOUT THE
SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made
available the widest range of literature from around the globe.
Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship,
providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable
features, including expert introductions by leading authorities,
helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for
further study, and much more.
This book addresses the question of metaphor in Nietzsche. It
provides an unusual reading of Nietzsche's ideas (particularly of
the central concept of "will to power") and an incisive method for
investigating his style. Developing work on Nietzsche undertaken by
Derrida and the post-structuralists, Kofman shows how Nietzsche's
style influences his ideas and how these ideas are to be
understood. Since its first publication in France in 1972, this
work has been a major influence on readings of Nietzsche and this
English-language translation should be widely welcomed. Sarah
Kofman's translated works include "The Enigma of Women: Women in
Freud's Writings" (1985), "The Childhood of Art" (1988) and "Freud
and Fiction" (1991).
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