Nietzsche and the Origin of Virtue (Routledge Nietzsche Studies) - Hardcover

Hunt, Lester H.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415040531 ISBN 13: 9780415040532

Publisher: Routledge, 1990

Synopsis

Arguing that Friedrich Nietzsche has a coherent and formidable ethical and political philosophy, this treatise examines Nietzsche's views on human rights, his anti-political stance and his novel use of the idea of experimentation as an ethical ideal.

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Review

"Hunt has written an important (and delightfully engaging) book that exemplifies a way of reading Nietzsche that is all too rare. Not content merely to restate Nietzsche, Hunt interacts with Nietzsche's ideas, utilizing the ones he agrees with to overcome the problems that he sees in some of the others. In particular, Hunt's blueprint for a Nietzschean liberalism is suggestive, and a a challenge to other readers of Nietzsche to extend and revise his thought in new directions."-"The Philosophical Review "Hunt's study . . . contributes to the aim of this series to publish sympathetic treatments of Nietzsche that also address the concerns of analytic' philosophers . . . . He works out the interesting arguments that underlie Nietzsche's important enigmatic statements, and he justifies his reconstructions with a close reading of relevant texts . . . Highly recommended."-"Choice

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415040531
• ISBN 13: 9780415040532
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 208