Nietzsche's Culture War

Provides the first comprehensive interpretation of Nietzsche's Untimely Meditations
Challenges the view, predominant in Nietzsche scholarship today, that his early and late writings are disparate in concern and approach
Argues that the Untimely Meditations form a unified philosophic narrative that constitutes Nietzsche's first attempt to diagnose and cure the spiritual ailments whose causes he traced to modern culture and science

Autorentext

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

Klappentext
This book is the first comprehensive interpretation of Nietzsche's Untimely Meditations. It argues that the four Meditationswhich Nietzsche said deserve the greatest attention for my developmentare 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 his commentary on the four essays in his autobiographical work Ecce Homo as its interpretive guide, this book also shows that the Untimely Meditationscontain early expositions of concepts like the last man, the overman, the new philosopher, the creation of values, and the malleability of natureall staples of his later philosophy.

Inhalt

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.