Nietzsche's Human All Too Human (Edinburgh Critical Guides to Nietzsche) - Softcover

Ruth Abbey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1474430821 ISBN 13: 9781474430821

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2020

Synopsis

Human, All Too Human marks the beginning of what is often called Nietzsche's middle or positivist period (which ends with the conclusion of Book IV of The Gay Science). It initiates some important features that become permanent in his work, such as his experiments in multiple writing styles within one work, his self-representation as a psychologist, his genealogical excavations of morality and his appeal to fellow Europeans to overcome the parochialism and antagonism of nationalism.

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About the Author

Ruth Abbey is a Professor in the Department of Social Sciences at Swinburne University of Technology. She is the author of Nietzsche's Middle Period (OUP, 2000), Charles Taylor (Princeton University Press, 2000) and The Return of Feminist Liberalism (McGill-Queens University Press, 2011). She is the editor of Contemporary Philosophy in Focus: Charles Taylor (Cambridge University Press, 2004) and Feminist Interpretations of Rawls (Penn State University Press, 2013).

From the Back Cover

A guide to one of Nietzsche's earlier and lesser known texts This is the first comprehensive study of Human, All Too Human. This important book, which is Nietzsche's longest, has received little scholarly attention. It initiates some important features that become permanent in his work, such as his experiments in a diversity of writing styles within a single work, his self-representation as a psychologist, his genealogical excavations of morality and his appeal to fellow Europeans to overcome the parochialism and antagonism of nationalism. Requiring no prior knowledge of Nietzsche or his text, Ruth Abbey maps her chapters onto those of Nietzsche's text and includes a separate chapter to cover the essays Assorted Opinions and Maxims and The Wanderer and Its Shadow, which were originally published as separate works. Ruth Abbey is Professor in the Department of Social Sciences, Swinburne University, Australia.

Edition details

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1474430821
• ISBN 13: 9781474430821
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256