Nietzsche: An Introduction

By:

Gianni Vattimo

Format:

Hardback

Series:

Cultural Memory in the Present

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This book is both a concise and lucid introduction to Nietzsche and an original contribution to critical debates concerning Nietzsche interpretation and reception. This overview takes issue with the prevailing tendency to focus on Nietzsche s later work, which reaches its extreme with Heidegger s almost exclusive focus on the group of late notes posthumously collected as The Will to Power. Vattimo aims to mediate between two prominent hermeneutic readings of Nietzsche: Wilhelm Dilthey s view that Nietzsche s work fits into the nineteenth-century tradition of the philosophy of life and Heidegger s belief that Nietzsche is best understood as the author of a pair of ontological doctrines, the will to power and the eternal return of the same. Vattimo aims to show that Nietzsche s early interest in cultural and historical criticism can be found throughout his corpus and that it informs, and helps to explain, Nietzsche s later doctrines and writings. This allows us to understand these later doctrines in a deeper way, to see their connections with his wider concerns, and thus to make greater sense of Nietzsche s philosophy as a whole.

Author Biography:

Gianni Vattimo is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Turin. Among his books translated into English is Religion (edited with Jacques Derrida) (Stanford, 1998) and Beyond Interpretation: The Meaning of Hermeneutics for Philosophy (Stanford, 1997).

Release date Australia

April 11th, 2002

Author

Gianni Vattimo

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Contributor

Translated by Nicholas Martin

Pages

288

Series

Cultural Memory in the Present

Dimensions

155x223x26

ISBN-13

9780804737982

Product ID

12124778

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