Nietzsche’s Culture War: The Unity of the Untimely Meditations (Recovering Political Philosophy)

by: Shilo Brooks (Author)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Edition: 1st ed. 2018

Publication Date: 2017/11/16

Language: English

Print Length: 258 pages

ISBN-10: 3319615203

ISBN-13: 9783319615202

Book Description

This book is the first comprehensive interpretation of Nietzsche’s Untimely Meditations. It argues that the four Meditations―which Nietzsche said “deserve the greatest attention for my development”―are not separate pieces, but instead form a unified philosophic narrative that constitutes his first attempt to diagnose and cure the spiritual ailments whose causes he traced to mode culture and science. Taking Nietzsche’s commentary on the four essays in his autobiographical work Ecce Homo as its interpretive guide, this book also shows that the Untimely Meditations contain early expositions of concepts like the last man, the overman, the new philosopher, the creation of values, and the malleability of nature―all staples of his later philosophy.

About the Author

This book is the first comprehensive interpretation of Nietzsche’s Untimely Meditations. It argues that the four Meditations―which Nietzsche said “deserve the greatest attention for my development”―are not separate pieces, but instead form a unified philosophic narrative that constitutes his first attempt to diagnose and cure the spiritual ailments whose causes he traced to mode culture and science. Taking Nietzsche’s commentary on the four essays in his autobiographical work Ecce Homo as its interpretive guide, this book also shows that the Untimely Meditations contain early expositions of concepts like the last man, the overman, the new philosopher, the creation of values, and the malleability of nature―all staples of his later philosophy.