Nietzsche, Psychology and First Philosophy - Hardcover

Pippin, Robert B

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0226669750 ISBN 13: 9780226669755

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 2010

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"What counts in the context of Nietzsche as a successful or even legitimate interpretation is open to dispute in a way that is true of perhaps no other major figure in the history of philosophy. The need for a unifying characterization of Nietzsche's philosophical project is both pressing and extremely hard to fulfill. Pippin's interpretation of Nietzsche--as occupied fundamentally with subjective deficiencies which not even a full realization of Enlightenment ideals in modernity could eliminate--is by any measure outstanding and merits the attention of all concerned to understand the development of philosophy in the wake of Kant. Readers who fear that unless Nietzsche is equipped with an original and cogent set of doctrinal commitments in epistemology, metaphysics, and meta-ethics, his strictly philosophical interest will evaporate, will find in Pippin a trenchant, rigorous, and persuasive account of how Nietzsche's psychological turn, understood correctly, addresses traditional philosophical concerns while seeking to recast our basic conception of the task of philosophy."--Sebastian Gardner, University College, London

"Pippin's is one of a small but growing numbers of works that, working through Nietzsche, recognize that orthodoxy is often little more than a heresy that has, for the moment, won the day." --Alexander Nehamas "Common Knowledge "

"Through sympathetic and creative readings of Nietzsche's imagery, and with an unusually strong emphasis on his project of a 'gay science, ' this book presents Nietzsche's commitment to the priority of psychology in a new light. Arguing against the tendency to give naturalist readings of Nietzsche's psychology, Pippin's refreshing proposal is to place Nietzsche's project in the light of the earlier French moralistes and of Montaigne in particular. From this perspective he is able to cast light on Nietzsche's treatments of agency, erotic longing, and self-deceit in ways which challenge much recent thinking about Nietzsche. This book should provoke lively debate and anyone interested in Nietzsche will gain much from Pippin's subtle reflections."--Christopher Janaway, University of Southampton

"There have been literally hundreds of works on Nietzsche published over the last thirty years, but none of them approach him in quite the way Robert Pippin does here. The result of long and deep reflection on Nietzsche's philosophical project, Nietzsche, Psychology, and First Philosophy does not attempt to reduce all philosophical theorizing to psychology, but instead suggests that Nietzsche's philosophical thinking, like that of the French moralistes before him, was driven by a desire to understand how human beings think about their lives and why they think about their lives in the ways that they do."--Alan D. Schrift, Grinnell College

"Pippin presents a much-needed new approach and appreciation of Nietzsche. . . . [He] adroitly starts fresh with Nietzsche, considering his work holistically and in the context of both early psychology and 19th-century French morality. In his novel reading, Pippin exposes the folly of underappreciating Nietzsche's irony and self-criticism."--Choice--Choice

About the Author:

Robert B. Pippin is the Evelyn Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service Professor in the John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought, the Department of Philosophy, and the College at the University of Chicago. He is the author or editor of nearly a dozen books, including, most recently, Hegel's Practical Philosophy: Rational Agency as Ethical Life.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0226669750
• ISBN 13: 9780226669755
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 152