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Fontana Press
Together with Marx and Freud, Friedrich Nietzsche
(1844-1900) is one of the main sources of twentieth-
century thought. His formulations that God is dead, that
the world is the product of the will to power, and that
true value lies in a morality of strenuousness, have
become part of the European experience in our age.
While most of Nietzsche's work takes the form of short
'reflections', he also tried to create a major mythology
and attempted, finally, a comprehensive philosophical
system. In his often contradictory writings — which are
concentrated into the brief time-span 1872-88 - he
directs his thought again and again at the function and
value of truth. Nietzsche was an anti-systematic thinker,
yet he understood and systematically 'unmasked' the
ethic of praise and blame, of punishment and reward and
of the agony of conscience.
This book is an exhilarating examination of
Nietzsche's work: in a series of analyses of his
'philosophical...
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Fülszöveg
Fontana Press
Together with Marx and Freud, Friedrich Nietzsche
(1844-1900) is one of the main sources of twentieth-
century thought. His formulations that God is dead, that
the world is the product of the will to power, and that
true value lies in a morality of strenuousness, have
become part of the European experience in our age.
While most of Nietzsche's work takes the form of short
'reflections', he also tried to create a major mythology
and attempted, finally, a comprehensive philosophical
system. In his often contradictory writings — which are
concentrated into the brief time-span 1872-88 - he
directs his thought again and again at the function and
value of truth. Nietzsche was an anti-systematic thinker,
yet he understood and systematically 'unmasked' the
ethic of praise and blame, of punishment and reward and
of the agony of conscience.
This book is an exhilarating examination of
Nietzsche's work: in a series of analyses of his
'philosophical experiments'J. P. Stern elucidates
Nietzsche's existentialism by reference to the main
events of his life, and to his astounding range of styles and
vision of language.
'Penetrating insights are found throughout the book
all those who read it will derive much pleasure and profit
from it.' THE TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION SUPPLEMENT
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