Whitman and Nietzsche. A Comparative Study of Their Thought
Author : Constantine Nicholas STAVROU
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Page : pages
File Size : 32,62 MB
Release : 1964
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Author : Constantine Nicholas STAVROU
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Page : pages
File Size : 32,62 MB
Release : 1964
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Author : C. N.. Stavrou
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Page : 232 pages
File Size : 10,1 MB
Release : 1964
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Author : T. K. Seung
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 13,96 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780739111307
Thus Spoke Zarathustra is Nietzsche's most problematic text. There appears to be no thematic connection between its four Parts and numerous sections. To make it even worse, the book contains a number of thematic contradictions. The standard approach has been a method of selective reading, that is, most critics select a few brilliant passages for edification and ignore the rest. This approach has turned Nietzsche's text into a collection of disjointed fragments. Going against this prevalent approach, T.K. Seung presents the first unified reading of the whole book. He reads it as the record of Zarathustra's epic journey to find spiritual values in the secular world. The alleged thematic contradictions of the text are shown to indicate the turns and twists that are dictated by the hero's epic battle against his formidable opponent. His heroic struggle is eventually resolved by the power of a pantheistic nature-religion. Thus Nietzsche's ostensibly atheistic work turns out to be a highly religious text. The author uncovers this epic plot by reading Nietzsche's text as a baffling series of riddles and puzzles. Hence his reading is not only edifying but also breathtaking. In this unprecedented enterprise, the author takes a complex interdisciplinary approach, engaging the five disciplines of philosophy, psychology, religious studies, literary analysis, and cultural history.
Author : Karl Jaspers
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 21,71 MB
Release : 1997-10-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780801857799
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.
Author : C. Schotten
Publisher : Springer
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 27,96 MB
Release : 2009-07-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0230623220
This book claims Nietzsche as a leftist revolutionary but without overlooking the conservative and retrogressive elements of his political philosophy. The author argues that these two 'halves' of his philosophy help construct a new form of politics for contemporary readers, a possibility of revolution post-Marx.
Author : Constantine N. Stavrou
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Page : 231 pages
File Size : 18,91 MB
Release : 1969
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Author : Constantine Nicholas Stavrou
Publisher : Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 27,95 MB
Release : 1964
Category : Literary Criticism
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This volume will be a great aid to students and scholars alike in American literature, American thought, the history of ideas, and comparative literature. Stavrou draws from the entire bodies of work by Whitman and Nietzsche to explore the parallels in the authors' conceptions of paradox, the totality of life, and solitude among other themes in this exploration of the underlying philosophical similarities of these two great writers of the nineteenth century.
Author : Daniel W. Conway
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 46,56 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Philosophy, German
ISBN : 9780415135641
Author : C. N. Stavrou
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Page : pages
File Size : 49,11 MB
Release : 1988-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780404509484
Author : Friedrich Nietzsche
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 14,33 MB
Release : 1997-11-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521599634
A new edition of this important work of Nietzsche's 'mature' philosophy.