Title:
Nietzsche : an introduction to the understanding of his philosophical activity / Karl Jaspers ; translated by Charles F. Wallraff and Frederick J. Schmitz.
Author:
Jaspers, Karl, 1883-1969.
Publication Information:
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.
Call Number:
B3317 .J3713 1997
Abstract:
"Nietzsche claimed to be a philosopher of the future, but he was appropriated as a philosopher of Nazism. His work inspired a long study by Martin Heidegger and essays by a host of lesser disciples attached to the Third Reich. In 1935, however, Karl Jaspers set out to "marshall against the National Socialists the world of thought of the man they had proclaimed as their own philosopher." The year after Nietzsche was published, Jaspers was discharged from his professorship at Heidelberg University by order of the Nazi leadership. Unlike the ideologues, Jaspers does not selectively cite Nietzsche's work to reinforce already held opinions. Instead, he presents Nietzsche as a complex, wide-ranging philosopher - extraordinary not only because he foresaw all the monstrosities of the twentieth century but also because he saw through them."--BOOK JACKET.
Electronic Access:
Contributor biographical information http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/bios/jhu051/97020966.htmlPublisher description http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/jhu052/97020966.html
ISBN:
9780801857799
Physical Description:
xiv, 496 pages ; 24 cm
General Note:
Previously published: Lanham, MD : University Press of America, 1985.
Subject Term:
Contents:
Introduction -- Understanding Nietzsche's Work -- The Dependence of Understanding on the Nature of the Interpreter -- BOOK ONE: NIETZSCHE'S LIFE -- Surveys -- The Course of Nietzsche's Development -- Friends and Loneliness -- Illness -- The End -- BOOK TWO: THE BASIC THOUGHTS OF NIETZSCHE -- Chapter One: Man -- Introduction: Discontent with Man -- The Existence of Man -- Man as his Own Creator (Morality) -- Nietzsche's Conception of Man as a Driving Force -- Chapter Two: Truth -- Scientific and Philosophic Truth -- The Theory of Exegesis: Truth and Life -- Nietzsche's Passionate Longing for Unlimited Truth -- The Dissolution of Reason -- A Transcending Breakthrough to the Truth -- Chapter Three: History and the Present Age -- The Forms Through Which History Reveals Itself to Nietzsche -- The Vital Significance of Historical Consciousness -- The Present Age -- Chapter Four: Great Politics -- Introduction: The Meaning of Great Politics -- Nietzsche's View of Political Reality -- Visions of the Possible Future -- The Task of Great Politics -- Great Politics and Philosophy -- Chapter Five: World Exegesis -- The World as Commentary -- Nietzsche's New Exegesis (The Will to Power) -- The World as Pure Immanence -- Chapter Six: Boundaries and Sources -- Introduction: The Fundamental Question: Theodicy -- The Source of Awareness of Being: The "States" -- The Affirmation of the Concept of Being -- The Mythical Elements in Nietzsche's Nature -- BOOK THREE: NIETZSCHE'S WAY OF THINKING, VIEWED WITHIN THE ENTIRETY OF HIS EXISTENCE -- Chapter One: How Nietzsche Understands Himself and His Own Thought -- Life and Knowledge -- Nietzsche's Conception of Logical Forms -- The Possibility of Communication -- What Nietzsche Is to Himself -- Chapter Two: How Nietzsche Is to Be Understood -- Ways of Criticizing Nietzsche -- The Will to Pure This-Worldliness -- The New Philosophizing -- Appropriating Nietzsche -- Chronological Tables I and II.
Uniform Title:
Nietzsche. English
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