Why Didn't Nietzsche Get His Act Together?
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 18 October 2023
- ISBN 9780197669303
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages384 pages
- Size 163x226x45 mm
- Weight 658 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Friedrich Nietzsche did his philosophizing while he was coming apart at the seams. His writing is disorienting for readers because he was all over the place when he produced it. But Nietzsche's philosophy is about coming apart at the seams and being all over the place, and it is a philosophy meant to cope with that predicament--which makes it both fascinating and important. Elijah Millgram provides a new way of reading Nietzsche through this insight. Nietzsche not only recommended that you invent values for yourself; his books show you how it is done, and what it is to make a value you invent into the meaning of your life.
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Nietzsche wrote the philosophical work for which he is most famous while he was coming apart at the seams. The circumstances of Nietzsche's dramatic psychological disintegration make his writing, while popular, often hard for readers to understand. Elijah Millgram here argues for a new framework for making sense of Nietzsche-one that transforms the way we read him.
Why Didn't Nietzsche Get His Act Together? argues that Nietzsche's late works (from Thus Spoke Zarathustra onwards) should not be read as straightforwardly endorsing a consistent or systematic set of philosophical claims. Rather, these late works display Nietzsche living through a series of different personalities or philosophical perspectives. Each perspective embodies a different way of seeing the world, deploys different values, highlights certain features while occluding others, and is motivated by a different dominant drive. What one perspective emphasizes can be left out by another; what one perspective presents as valuable can be seen as neutral or even as damaging from another; what engenders the appearance of coherence or order in one perspective can do the opposite in another. Millgram claims that insofar as each human life embodies a perspective, and insofar as each of Nietzsche's late texts exhibits a distinct perspective, we can think of each of the late works as written by a different author.
Millgram provides seven such readings of Nietzsche's most famous later works, and two concluding chapters discuss Nietzsche's perspectivism, as well as the account Nietzsche gives of why his very difficult life was nonetheless one that he could look back on without regret.
A strikingly original book. It stakes out a unique position in Nietzsche scholarship; the readings are always illuminating. The analyses of drives, perspectives, the institutionalization of values, and of unified and disunified selfhood are particularly rich and should spark discussion among Nietzsche scholars. One of the best monographs I've read in recent years.
Table of Contents:
1 Why Read About Nietzsche, Instead of Just Reading Nietzsche Himself?
2 Who Was Nietzsche's Genealogist?
3 Who Was the Author of Nietzsche's Zarathustra?
First Interlude: What Was Nietzsche's Genealogy?
4 Who Was Nietzsche's "Good European"? (How to Read Beyond Good and Evil)
Appendix: Unpacking BGE
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Second Interlude: Was Nietzsche a Nazi?
5 Who Was Nietzsche's Convalescent? (How to Read The Gay Science)
6 Who Was Nietzsche's Psychologist? (How to Read Twilight of the Idols)
Third Interlude: Are We Interpreting Nietzsche the Right Way?
7 Who Was Nietzsche's Antichrist?
8 Who Wrote Nietzsche's Autobiography?
9 What Was Nietzsche's Perspectivism?
Appendix: Truth and Lie
10 What Was Nietzsche's Tragedy?
11 What Is the Meaning of Life?
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