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Book SynopsisComprehensive, accessible and detailed, this volume will be important for students and teachers seeking to develop their understanding of Nietzsche's philosophy. Key texts, including The Birth of Tragedy and Thus Spoke Zarathustra, are explored in depth, and topics covered include truth, science, art, history and his famous 'will to power'.
Trade Review'… all the essays are of high quality, and combined they provide a generally fine overview of the lay of the scholarly land. This is an excellent resource for nonspecialists … Recommended.' M. Harding, Choice
'… the volume marks an important step in Nietzsche scholarship …' Stavros Patoussis, The Agonist
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Nietzsche's life and works Tom Stern; Part I. Influences and Interlocutors: 1. What Nietzsche did and did not read Andreas Urs Sommer; 2. Nietzsche's untimely antiquity James I. Porter; 3. Schopenhauer: Nietzsche's antithesis and source of inspiration Robert Wicks; 4. Nietzsche and Wagner Mark Berry; 5. On Nietzsche's legacy Stephen Mulhall; Part II. Selected Texts: 6. The birth of tragedy: transfiguration through art Paul Raimond Daniels; 7. Zarathustra: Nietzsche's rendezvous with eternity Dirk R. Johnson; 8. Figurative philosophy in Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil Robert B. Pippin; 9. Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morality: moral injury and transformation Christa Davis Acampora; Part III. Truth, History and Science: 10. Nietzsche and the truth of history Anthony K. Jensen; 11. Nietzsche, truth, and naturalism Christian J. Emden; 12. Nietzsche on the arts and sciences Sebastian Gardner; Part IV. Will, Value and Culture: 13. The Will to Power Lawrence J. Hatab; 14. Nietzsche's ethics of affirmation Tom Stern; 15. Nietzsche on free will Michael N. Forster; 16. Nietzsche's Germans Raymond Geuss.
