Description
Book SynopsisFriedrich 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 theorie
Trade Review"Nietzsche famously described himself as an 'untimely' thinker. Yet his thought was deeply embedded in the debates of his time. In nine sharp chapters ranging from the women's question and colonialism to anti-Semitism and eugenics, Robert Holub sheds revealing light on the oftentimes surprising origin and development of Nietzsche's ideas from out of the arguments and disputes that shaped intellectual life during the latter half of the nineteenth century. A must read for anyone interested in understanding Nietzsche and his importance for us today." * Hugo Drochon, University of Cambridge *
Table of ContentsA Note on Citations
Introduction: The Timely Meditator
Chapter 1. The Education Question
Chapter 2. The German Question
Chapter 3. The Social Question
Chapter 4. The Women's Question
Chapter 5. The Colonial Question
Chapter 6. The Jewish Question
Chapter 7. The Evolution Question
Chapter 8. The Cosmological Question
Chapter 9. The Eugenics Question
Concluding Remarks
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments
