Pringle-Pattison on The Life and Opinions of Friedrich Nietzsche (original) (raw)
FAREWELL DEAR FRITZ: a tribute to Friedrich Nietzsche
IGDS eBooks, 2025
This book is about two diametrically opposed approaches to the truth--introspection and extrospection. Introspection was the mature approach of the famous philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. While this approach led to profound insights into his personal psychology, it prevented him from reaching his goal of revaluing all societal values, and it proved so traumatic that it caused the great thinker to lose his sanity. This high-risk, low-reward approach is contrasted with one in which truth is sought through an exploration of the outside world--namely the dynamic life-system, or strategic logos--enabling, among many other things, an understanding of the way societal values are formulated. In one of his last books "Nietzsche contra Wagner" (1888/1895), Nietzsche wrote about Wagner and himself that: "we are antipodes". The same could be said of Nietzsche and me. Yet this difference does not diminish the warmth of feeling I have for Fritz (as he was known to family and close friends), nor the immense respect I have for his dangerous and painful odyssey in search of the truth.
Anti-Nietzsche : A Critique of Friedrich Nietzsche
Nietzsche’s irrational doctrines have contributed to the emergence of self-destructive extremism on both the right and left ends of the political spectrum. The realization of his Übermensch ideal is not about achieving greatness as an individual but rather about greatness as a collective whole, specifically as a European empire. His philosophy stands in stark contrast to genuine conservatism, which is rooted in Christian principles. Keywords: conservatism, perspectivism, traditionalism, New Right, identitarian, postmodernism, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Heraclitus, extremism, antisemitism, will to power, logos, Christianity.
Diaphanes Verlag - https://www.diaphanes.net/titel/the-philosophy-of-nietzsche-4692, 2020
Nietzsche praised Kant for having “annihilated Socratism,” for exhibiting all ideals as essentially unattainable, and for having exposed himself to the despair of truth—all essential traits Nietzsche claimed for his own thinking. At the same time, the existentialist philosopher remained highly critical of Kant. This volume of Reiner Schürmann’s lectures unpacks Nietzsche’s ambivalence towards Kant, in particular positioning Nietzsche’s claim to have brought an end to German idealism against the backdrop of the Kantian transcendental-critical tradition. Rather than simply compare the two philosophers, Schürmann’s lectures help us to understand the consequences Nietzsche derived from Kantian concepts, as well as the wider horizon within which Nietzsche’s ideas arose and can best be shown to apply. According to Schürmann’s trenchant reading: if Nietzsche was indeed “fatal” to Western philosophy, as he claimed, he was so in large part because of the Kantian transcendental thinking from which he inherited the very elements and tools of his criticism.
Review of �Nietzsche: A Philosophical Biography�
Essays in Philosophy, 2003
Maybe we did not need another book on Nietzsche. The philosopher who famously despised scholarship and scholars has been the occasion of more ink spilled by academics than perhaps any other thinker of the modern period. And although much of the recent work on Nietzsche should be counted among the best books yet written on his thought-I am thinking of Kathleen Higgins' Comic Relief (2000), for example, and Brian Leiter's Nietzsche on Morality (2002)-one sometimes wonders if there is anything original left to say about what already has been so overwrought. But then along comes a book like Safranski's Nietzsche and the great German iconoclast (that's Nietzsche, not Safranski) is fresh for us again. Safranski is good at this: his well-received biographies of Schopenhauer and Heidegger were similarly refreshing books to read, tying together the life and thought of those two figures in a way that no one had successfully done before (indeed, when speaking of either Schopenhauer or Heidegger, one tends to avoid discussing their lives-especially in Heidegger's case). And although it is true that we have several good and-in the work of Curt Paul Janz, for exampleeven excellent biographies of Nietzsche, Safranski is the first to tease the strange and often shocking philosophical ideas of Nietzsche out of his rather comparatively mild and conservative life.