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Nietzsche's Unfashionable Observations - often translated as the
Untimely Meditations or Thoughts Out of Season - is made up of four
independent essays written between 1873 and 1876. The book remains
a puzzle: what structure, principles and arguments underlie the
essays? Presupposing no prior knowledge of Nietzsche or the text,
Jeffrey Church sets the essays in historical and philosophical
context, guides you through the text section-by-section and
develops a structural overview of each essay. He reveals how the
common themes of freedom, culture and genius unify the book.
Cosmopolitanism is one of the most venerable intellectual
traditions in the history of political philosophy. From the ancient
Greek Diogenes' claim to be "a citizen of the world" through to
Kant's Enlightenment vision of a world government and even into our
own time, the idea of cosmopolitanism has stirred the moral
imagination of many throughout history. Arguably the Brexit
referendum result and the election of Donald Trump in 2016 marked
the first major public repudiation of the transnational,
globalizing cosmopolitan ideals that have arguably dominated
politics in the liberal democratic West since the end of the Cold
War. This volume reconsiders cosmopolitanism and its discontents in
the age of Brexit and Trump by bringing together the great thinkers
in the history of political philosophy and contemporary reflections
on the problems and possibilities of international relations, human
rights, multiculturalism, and regnant theories of democracy and the
state.
Nietzsche's Unfashionable Observations - often translated as the
Untimely Meditations or Thoughts Out of Season - is made up of four
independent essays written between 1873 and 1876. The book remains
a puzzle: what structure, principles and arguments underlie the
essays? Presupposing no prior knowledge of Nietzsche or the text,
Jeffrey Church sets the essays in historical and philosophical
context, guides you through the text section-by-section and
develops a structural overview of each essay. He reveals how the
common themes of freedom, culture and genius unify the book.
This is a new release of the original 1961 edition.
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rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for
everyone!
This book’s primary purpose is to commemorate the 300th
anniversary of Montesquieu’s Persian Letters, a seminal book in
classical liberal thought. Persian Letters is a delightfully rich,
sympathetic satire of commercial society’s promise and
discontents, covering a wide range of issues and themes that shaped
the direction of liberal modernity. It consists of a series of
letters largely written by two Persian travelers to Paris, who
allow modern readers to view Parisian life from the perspective of
an outsider. The volume includes contributions from prominent
scholars of Montesquieu’s and early career scholars who have
recently unearthed new and exciting avenues for understanding this
important hinge-figure in modern political thought.
Cosmopolitanism is one of the most venerable intellectual
traditions in the history of political philosophy. From the ancient
Greek Diogenes' claim to be "a citizen of the world" through to
Kant's Enlightenment vision of a world government and even into our
own time, the idea of cosmopolitanism has stirred the moral
imagination of many throughout history. Arguably the Brexit
referendum result and the election of Donald Trump in 2016 marked
the first major public repudiation of the transnational,
globalizing cosmopolitan ideals that have arguably dominated
politics in the liberal democratic West since the end of the Cold
War. This volume reconsiders cosmopolitanism and its discontents in
the age of Brexit and Trump by bringing together the great thinkers
in the history of political philosophy and contemporary reflections
on the problems and possibilities of international relations, human
rights, multiculturalism, and regnant theories of democracy and the
state.
Nietzsche scholars have long been divided over whether Nietzsche is
an aristocratic or a democratic thinker. Nietzche's Culture of
Humanity overcomes this debate by proving both sides wrong. Jeffrey
Church argues that in his early period writings, Nietzsche
envisioned a cultural meritocracy that drew on the classical German
tradition of Kant and Herder. The young Nietzsche's 'culture of
humanity' synthesized the high and low, the genius and the people,
the nation and humanity. Nietzsche's early ideal of culture can
shed light on his mature period thought, since, Church argues,
Nietzsche does not abandon this fundamental commitment to a
cultural meritocracy. Nietzche's Culture of Humanity argues that
Nietzsche's novel defense of culture can overcome some persisting
problems in contemporary liberal theories of culture. As such, this
book should interest Nietzsche scholars, political theorists and
philosophers interested in modern thought, as well as contemporary
thinkers concerned with the politics of culture.
Great statesmen and gentlemen, men of honor and rank, seem to be
phenomena of a bygone Aristocratic era. Aristocracies, which
emphasize rank, and value difference, quality, beauty, rootedness,
continuity, stand in direct contrast to democracies, which value
equality, autonomy, novelty, standardization, quantity, utility and
mobility. Is there any place for aristocratic values and virtues in
the modern democratic social and political order? This volume
consists of essays by political theorists, historians, and literary
theorists that explore this question in the works of aristocratic
thinkers, both ancient and modern. The volume includes analyses of
aristocratic virtues, interpretations of aristocratic assemblies
and constitutions, both historic and contemporary, as well as
critiques of liberal virtues and institutions. Essays on Tacitus,
Hobbes, Burke, Tocqueville, Nietzsche, as well as some lesser known
figures, such as Henri de Boulainvilliers, John Randolph of
Roanoke, Louis de Bonald, Konstantin Leontiev, Jose Ortega y
Gasset, Richard Weaver, and the Eighth Duke of Northumberland,
explore ways of preserving and adapting the salutary aspects of the
aristocratic ethos to the needs of modern liberal societies.
G. W. F. Hegel and Friedrich Nietzsche are often considered the
philosophical antipodes of the nineteenth century. In Infinite
Autonomy, Jeffrey Church draws on the thinking of both Hegel and
Nietzsche to assess the modern Western defense of individuality--to
consider whether we were right to reject the ancient model of
community above the individual. The theoretical and practical
implications of this project are important, because the proper
defense of the individual allows for the survival of modern liberal
institutions in the face of non-Western critics who value communal
goals at the expense of individual rights. By drawing from Hegelian
and Nietzschean ideas of autonomy, Church finds a third way for the
individual--what he calls the "historical individual," which goes
beyond the disagreements of the ancients and the moderns while
nonetheless incorporating their distinctive contributions.
Magnanimity and Statesmanship is a collection of papers on the
virtue of Aristotelian magnanimity (or greatness of soul) and its
relationship to the history of political philosophy and to the art
of statesmanship. Aristotle's account of the "great-souled man" may
seem somewhat alien to the sensibilities of a modern democracy.
There is, after all, an inegalitarian element in the great-souled
man's confidence in his moral excellence and hence in his superior
worthiness to hold public office. Nevertheless, even modern
democratic thinkers admit that democracy needs, at least in certain
critical phases in its development, political leaders who far excel
their fellow citizens in virtue and wisdom. This book, then, traces
the path of magnanimity in the history of political philosophy and
examines certain statesmen in light of this virtue, all with a view
to addressing the following questions: What is magnanimity, and
what is its relationship to political life? Is magnanimity
compatible with Christianity, or with the modern commitment to
equality? Does modernity still stand in need of such a virtue? Can
magnanimity flourish under modern conditions? Are there examples of
political leaders whose lives exemplify this virtue and the study
of whose political conduct can deepen our understanding of it?
G. W. F. Hegel and Friedrich Nietzsche are often considered the
philosophical antipodes of the nineteenth century. In Infinite
Autonomy, Jeffrey Church draws on the thinking of both Hegel and
Nietzsche to assess the modern Western defense of individuality--to
consider whether we were right to reject the ancient model of
community above the individual. The theoretical and practical
implications of this project are important, because the proper
defense of the individual allows for the survival of modern liberal
institutions in the face of non-Western critics who value communal
goals at the expense of individual rights. By drawing from Hegelian
and Nietzschean ideas of autonomy, Church finds a third way for the
individual--what he calls the "historical individual," which goes
beyond the disagreements of the ancients and the moderns while
nonetheless incorporating their distinctive contributions.
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