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An Interpretation of Nietzsche's On the Uses and Disadvantage of History for Life
Routledge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Philosophy Series
Author: Jensen Anthony K.
Language: EnglishSubject for An Interpretation of Nietzsche's On the Uses and...:
Keywords
David Friedrich Strauss; Eduard von Hartmann; Eternal Recurrence; Schopenhauer; Untimely Meditations; Vom Nutzen und Nachtheil der Historie für das Leben; Wagner; historiography; philosophy of history; Gogh; Vincent Van Gogh; Young Man; Richard III; Friedrich August Wolf; BGE; Nietzsche's Genealogical Method; Vice Versa; Fustel De Coulanges; Untimely Meditation; Teleological Historiographies; Nachgelassene Fragmente; Scientific Historiography; Contemporary Historical Theorists; Hermann Usener; Heinrich Von Sybel; Monumental Historian's Actions; Metaphysical Unconscious; Imbalanced Application; Unhistorical Attitude; Ideal Chronicle; Kant's Teleology; Nietzsche's Title; August Boeckh; World Historical Significance
Publication date: 05-2016
· 15.2x22.9 cm · Hardback
Publication date: 06-2018
· 15.2x22.9 cm · Paperback
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With his An Interpretation of Nietzsche?s "On the Uses and Disadvantage of History for Life", Anthony K. Jensen shows how 'timely' Nietzsche?s second "Untimely Meditation" really is. This comprehensive and insightful study contextualizes and analyzes a wide range of Nietzsche?s earlier thoughts about history: teleology, typology, psychology, memory, classical philology, Hegelianism, and the role historiography plays in modern culture. On the Uses and Disadvantage of History for Life is shown to be a ?timely? work, too, insofar as it weaves together a number of Nietzsche's most important influences and thematic directions at that time: ancient culture, science, epistemology, and the thought of Schopenhauer and Burckhardt. Rather than dismiss it as a mere ?early? work, Jensen shows how the text resonates in Nietzsche?s later perspectivism, his theory of subjectivity, and Eternal Recurrence. And by using careful philological analysis of the text?s composition history, Jensen is in position to fully elucidate and evaluate Nietzsche?s arguments in their proper contexts. As such Jensen?s Interpretation should restore Nietzsche?s second "Untimely Meditation" to a prominent place among 19th Century philosophies of history.
1. Text and Context 2. Historicity 3. Typical Historians 4. History as a Science 5. Teleology 6. After History
Anthony K. Jensen is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Providence College and Associate Editor of the Journal of Nietzsche Studies. He is the author of Nietzsche's Philosophy of History (Cambridge University Press, 2013) and, co-editor, with Helmut Heit, of Nietzsche as a Scholar of Antiquity (Bloomsbury, 2014).
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