For readers both acquainted with and new to the writings of Friedrich Nietzsche, Nietzsche NOW! frames and explains Nietzsche’s thinking on topics of immediate contemporary concern and relevance. Wallis unpacks Nietzsche’s complex philosophy with a deft, empathetic, and brilliantly subtle analysis of the views of the Great Immoralist on democracy, identity, civilization, consciousness, religion, and other momentous topics. Throughout, Wallis includes ample extracts from Nietzsche himself.
Rather than skirting what is controversial or editing for easy consumption, Wallis invites readers to exercise a courageous curiosity that yields a rich, nuanced understanding of Nietzsche. In Nietzsche NOW! he takes readers on a sometimes counterintuitive, always revelatory journey to grasp the relevance of Nietzsche for our contentious times.
Nietzsche NOW! contains Wallis’s original German translations of Nietzsche’s writings from the critical edition along with insights drawn from a decades-long close study of Nietzsche’s works and their academic reception.
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Contents
Dedication
Prologue: Why Nietzsche? Why Now?
Reader, Nietzsche
Childhood and youth
University
Professorship
Interlude: war
An end and a beginning
The wanderer
Breakdown and death
We Perfect Readers
How to read like a cow
What to Pack: Truth, Consciousness, Embodiment
Truth
Consciousness
Embodiment
Democracy
Democracy as an antidote to tyranny
Democracy as tyranny
Master morality and slave morality
‘To where must we reach with our hopes?’
Identity
The principle of identity
Personality crisis
Political ramifications13
Wokeness and Ideology
Wokeness?
‘The Woke Mob Is Everywhere!’
Public opinion
Agon
Perspective
Five readings
Overcoming
Nihilism
Becoming who you are
Being-nature
Being-body
Being-animal
Civilization
Representative types
The human animal
The artist
The free spirit
The new philosopher
The immoralist
The Übermensch
Virtue
Curiosity
Honesty
Courage
Pathos of distance
Solitude
Sense of humor
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Over de auteur
Glenn Wallis is the editor and translator of The Dhammapada and Basic Teachings of the Buddha (Random House) and the author of A Critique of Western Buddhism (Bloomsbury), An Anarchist’s Manifesto, and How to Fix Education (Warbler Press). He holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University and has taught at several universities, including Brown University, and at the University of Georgia as a tenured professor. He is the founder and director of Incite Seminars in Philadelphia.
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