Nietzsche's Culture War: The Unity of the Untimely Meditations

by Shilo Brooks

Overview

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 modern 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. 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783319615219
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date:	11/03/2017
Series:	Recovering Political Philosophy
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	241
File size:	527 KB

About the Author

Shilo Brooks is Instructor at the Herbst Program of Humanities in Engineering at University of Colorado, USA

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Nietzsche contra Bismarck—Culture War.- 2. David Strauss the Confessor and the Writer.- 3. The Use and Disadvantage of History for Life.- 4. Schopenhauer as Educator.- 5. Richard Wagner in Bayreuth.

Editorial Reviews

In his excellent book, Brooks persuasively argues that the Meditations are unified in advancing a ‘Culture War’ that Nietzsche wages against our modern scientific age. … as soon as anyone cracks open the Meditations—a first-time reader or scholar—she should have Brooks by her side.” (Jeffrey Church, The Review of Politics, Vol. 81 (2), Spring, 2019)​

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