Nietzsche on the Decadence and Flourishing of Culture
- ISBN-10
- 0198823673
- ISBN-13
- 9780198823674
- Category
- Culture
- Pages
- 224
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2019-04-25
- Author
- Andrew Huddleston
Description
In Nietzsche on the Decadence and Flourishing of Culture, Andrew Huddleston offers a new interpretation of the views of the influential German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) on cultural decadence and flourishing. Whereas Nietzsche is often thought to be the champion of the isolated great individual, Huddleston argues that there is a deeply collectivist (though radically inegalitarian) strand to his thinking. He challenges the prevalentreading of Nietzsche as an individualist, identifying him instead as a more social thinker who appreciated collective cultural achievements. Using Nietzsche's ideal of a flourishing culture, and his diagnostics ofcultural malaise, as a point of departure for reconsidering many of the central themes in his ethics and social philosophy, Huddleston strikes a balance between situating Nietzsche in his nineteenth century context while also considering the ongoing relevance of his ideas.
Get the book
Other editions
-
- 2019-05-02
- 224 pages
- Ebook
- Oxford University Press
Similar books
-
The Decline of the West
By Oswald Spengler, Arthur Helps, Charles Francis AtkinsonSpengler's work describes how we have entered into a centuries-long "world-historical" phase comparable to late antiquity, and his controversial ideas spark debate over the meaning of historiography.
-
Nietzsche's Revolution: Décadence, Politics, and Sexuality
By C. SchottenThis book claims Nietzsche as a leftist revolutionary but without overlooking the conservative and retrogressive elements of his political philosophy.
-
Nietzsche's Metaphilosophy: The Nature, Method, and Aims of Philosophy
By Matthew Meyer, Paul S. LoebNietzscheLs Unpublished Notebooks and Translations of Notebook Material CWFN = The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche 2019: “Unpublished Fragments from the Period of Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Summer 1882–Winter 1883/84), trans.
-
Nietzsche's Philosophy of Religion
By Julian YoungThis is commonly thought to be a view which did not survive the termination of Nietzsche's early Wagnerianism, but Julian Young argues, on the basis of an examination of all of Nietzsche's published works, that his religious ...
-
Nietzsche's Last Laugh: Ecce Homo as Satire
By Nicholas D. MoreBeyond Good and Evil Nietzsche now begins an allegro pace toward the completion of Ecce Homo; Beyond Good and Evil and On the ... central place in Nietzsche's thought, see Higgins, Comic Relief, and two articles by Lawrence J. Hatab.
-
A Companion to Adorno
By Peter E. Gordon, Max Pensky, Espen HammerA Companion to Adorno is the largest collection of newly commissioned essays by a distinguished array of Adorno scholars, specialists, and leading interpreters ever gathered in a single volume.
-
Nietzsche's Moral Psychology
By Mark AlfanoExamines Nietzsche's thinking on the virtues using a combination of close reading and digital analysis.
-
Nietzsche's Values
By John RichardsonNozick, R. 1981. Philosophical Explanations. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Nussbaum, M. C. 1994. “Pity and Mercy: Nietzsche's Stoicism,” in (ed.) R. Schacht. Owen, D. 2018. “Constructing the Agon,” in (ed.) P. Katsafanas.
-
Twilight of the Idols
By Friedrich NietzscheNietzsche in fact projected a major work to be called “The Eternal Return of the Same,” the divisions of which would be examinations of various aspects of em- bodiment (Einverleibung). WKGV2 p. 392. 16. See the comments in WKG VIII2 pp.
-
Literary Mischief: Sakaguchi Ango, Culture, and the War
By James Dorsey, Douglas SlaymakerThough a generic word for flowers of all types, in many contexts it is clearly a reference to the cherry blossom, that most Japanese of flowers. Scattering to the wind after but a brief time and at the height of its beauty, the cherry ...