Nietzsche and Montaigne

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-319-66744-7
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 294 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 5005 g

This book is a historically informed and textually grounded study of the connections between Montaigne, the inventor of the essay, and Nietzsche, who thought of himself as an “attempter.”   In conversation with the Essais, Nietzsche developed key themes of his oeuvre: experimental scepticism, gay science, the quest for drives beneath consciousness, the free spirit, the affirmation of sexuality and the body, and the meaning of greatness.
Robert Miner explores these connections in the context of Nietzsche's reverence for Montaigne—a reverence he held for no other author—and asks what Montaigne would make of Nietzsche. The question arises from Nietzsche himself, who both celebrates Montaigne and includes him among a small number of authors to whose judgment he is prepared to submit.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Miner, Robert

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Französische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 19. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Rezeption, literarische Einflüsse und Beziehungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Deutsche Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1: Scepsis.- 2: Gay Science and the Practice of Perspectivism.- 3: The Drives.-  4: The Free Spirit.- 5: Overcoming Asceticism: The Cultivation of the Body.- 6:  Montaigne on Greatness.- 7: Nietzsche on Greatness.- 8. Epilogue: Montaigne as Judge of Nietzsche.

Über Autor(innen)

Robert Miner is Professor of Philosophy at Baylor University.