Nietzsche and the Philology of the Future
James I. Porter, "Nietzsche and the Philology of the Future"
English | ISBN: 0804736677 | 2002 | 472 pages | PDF | 5 MB
English | ISBN: 0804736677 | 2002 | 472 pages | PDF | 5 MB
Drawing on Nietzsche's prolific early notebooks and correspondence, this book challenges the polarized picture of Nietzsche as a philosopher who abandoned classical philology. It traces the contours of his earliest philological thinking and opens the way to a fresh view of his later thinking. The book's primary aim is to displace the developmental logic that has been a controlling factor in Nietzsche's reception, namely the assumption that Nietzsche passed from a precritical phase to an enlightened phase in which he liberated himself from metaphysics. A subsidiary aim is to decenter the view that fastens onto The Birth of Tragedy as a dramatic turning point in Nietzsche's thought.
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