Review of A. Jensen & H. Heit (eds.), Nietzsche the Classicist, in The Classical Review 65 (2015) 599-601 [copyright Cambridge University Press] (original) (raw)

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.

The Growth of Nietzsche's philosophy

This paper examines how Nietzsche came to his philosophy. Elements in the Birth of Tragedy are examined to show how it developed. Specifically the Apollonian-Dionysian distinction, the importance of the chorus, and the relevance to his contemporaries.

Friedrich Nietzsche in Basel: An apology for classical studies

Educational Philosophy and Theory , 2018

Alongside his work as a professor of Greek Language and Literature at the University of Basel, Friedrich Nietzsche reflected on the value of classical studies in contemporary nineteenth-century society, starting with a selfanalysis of his own classical training and position as a philologist and teacher. Contrary to his well-known aversion to classical philology, a science conceived as being an end in itself, aimed at mere erudite complacency, I highlight Nietzsche's defence of the system of Classical studies, and of the education of young people through the works of the ancient Greek and Roman period. Such an apology 'redeems' , in a sense, the discipline, and justifies its role and continued relevance in our present-day society.

Nietzsche, Rhetoric, Philology (final)

il s'agit du point irréductible extrême où le geste est un corps, un espace, une figure. l'extrême irréductible de tel point est son obscénité: ce point-là n'est ni physique ni géométrique; il est la mémoire de ce qu'est le mouvement dans tout corps. Mais ce dernier est aussi bien affecté de cette mémoire inverse: le corps est une limite dans le mouvement. Cette réversion est infinie.

Monographien und Texte zur Nietzsche-Forschung

AGONAL PERSPECTIVES ON NIETZSCHE'S PHILOSOPHY O CRITICAL TRANSVALUATION, 2021

The chapters of this book draw in different ways on published and unpublished material, as indicated below.The author would like to thank the publishers for permitting the use of published material. Chapter 1i sb asedo narevised version of "Nietzsche'sH ammer: Philosophy,D estruction, or TheA rt of Limited Warfare",i n Tijdschrift voor Filosofie 60/2,1 998, pp. 321-347. Chapter 2i sb asedo nar evised and expanded version of the chapter "Nietzsche'sAgon",first published in TheNietzschean Mind,ed.

Nietzsche as a Scholar of Antiquity

Chapters on Nietzsche's Philological Beginnings (J. Latacz); Nietzsche's Radical Philology (J. Porter); The Sources of Nietzsche's Rhetoric (G. Most and Th. Fries); Apollo and the Problem of Unity in Nietzsche (D. Burnham); N's Valediction and First Article (A. Jensen); N and Diogenes Laertius (J. Barnes); N's Influence on Homeric Scholarship (A. Zhavoronkov); N's Lectures on Ancient Literature (C. Santini); Greek Audiences (V. Vivarelli); The Ancient Quarrel between Philosophy and Poetry (M. Meyer); N's Genealogy of Early Greek Philosophy (H. Heit); N's Philology and the Science of Antiquity (B. Babich); Religion of the 'Older Greeks' (H. Cancik and H. Cancik-Lindemaier)