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Title: Nietzsche: Life As Literature by Alexander Nehamas ISBN: 0674624262 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: October, 1987 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.57
Rating: 1
Summary: How NOT to read Nietzsche
Comment: Strongly influenced by an analytical interpretation of Nietzsche from Danto's Nietzsche as Philosopher Nehamas does more harm to Nietzsche than good. Nehamas's own "creative" interpretation of Nietzsche is utterly irresponsible. Interpreting Nietzsche analytical only makes Nietzsche's moral properties run amok. Nehamas interprets Nietzsche like most Christians interpret the Bible: He takes away a few things he can use, dirties and confounds the remainder and reviles the whole. Nietzsche asserts, rather than believes, that "untruth" is indeed a condition of life. But he does not assert any kind of "theory of truth," as Nehamas would have us to believe. Nietzsche's moral philosophy is Descartian - doubting to believe to discover one's own perspective of truth - not a dogmatic religious truth! His intent is rather, to give us his perspective to help us discover truth in ourselves, not in Nietzsche, himself.
Rating: 5
Summary: enjoyable reading
Comment: The structure of this book is tight; the author unfolds his subjects with great skill. Probably the most intriguing book on Nietzsche in English.
Rating: 3
Summary: There are better books than this one.
Comment: Each chapter of Nehemas' book begins by problematizing an issue central to Nietzsche's philosophy. The way in which Nehemas problematizes these issues can make your head spin because he throws so many considerations at you all at once before finally resolving them in the last few pages. Although the ideas are good, they suffer from a poor presentation.
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Title: The Art of Living: Socratic Reflections from Plato to Foucault (Sather Classical Lectures, 61) by Alexander Nehamas ISBN: 0520224906 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: March, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Nietzsche as Philosopher by Arthur Coleman Danto ISBN: 0231050534 Publisher: Columbia University Press Pub. Date: 15 April, 1965 List Price(USD): $21.50 |
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Title: Truth & Truthfulness: An Essay in Genealogy by Bernard Arthur Owen Williams ISBN: 0691102767 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: Virtues of Authenticity by Alexander Nehamas ISBN: 0691001782 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 16 November, 1998 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity by Richard Rorty ISBN: 0521367816 Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr (Trd) Pub. Date: March, 1989 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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