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Nietzsche: A Very Short Introduction Michael Tanner
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Simply put, it is a matter of being so afraid and impotent to take on life itself, We are, in a very real sense, still children in our thinking. Zweig's examination of Nietzsche in The Struggle with the Daemon was, as he acknowledged, not so much a biography as a portrait of a life as .. So, what did they actually say, these Presocratics? Thank you for introducing me to some completely new ideals and personalities Simon. Even if I end up not getting very far into the list of 240+ books that the Well, it's because the Western tradition IS a very important part of our global heritage and culture, and it's important to know how these ancients influenced great philosophers ranging from Plato to Nietzsche. Jan 28, 2010 - The "Very Short Introductions" series has a wonderful set of books on philosophy, which I'm very excited to read. Aug 17, 2013 - Big Data” has quickly become one of the most widely used, perhaps overused, phrases in the last couple of years and is in danger of becoming meaningless through its application to so many different things. Dec 29, 2013 - Stefan Zweig was a prolific Austrian author of novels, short stories, plays and biographies. Kant: A Very Short Introduction. Crucially, this would involve a dissolution of the barrier between the human and the animal, which even In short, Bull well understands the post-Kantian game—and he is playing it for high stakes. Nietzsche Picture Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) . Jan 2, 2014 - However, what this paper has demonstrated is that the reading of Nietzsche's Will to Power as presented here is readily available within Nietzsche's work and within the work of Nietzsche's most adherent interpreters. May 27, 2013 - Nietzsche sees Christianity as the epitome of slave morality—it is simply a “projection of ultimate power to provide a crutch for its impotent believers who are incapable of harnessing the power of life for themselves” (A Short Introduction to Nietzsche, 12). Nevertheless it is clear that there is a lot We are in a constant state of adding new short term memories, like which gym locker did I use today, and jettisoning inconsequential old ones, like which gym locker did I use yesterday. The aspect of Nietzsche that appealed most to Zweig was his so-called “Dionysian” spirit. As far as Jung is concerned, this writer cannot counter the objection that the quote presented is taken out of . Apr 16, 2014 - In the concluding chapters of Anti-Nietzsche, Bull seeks first to establish the very possibility of being the kind of loser who could resist the allure of Nietzsche's rhetoric, shrug at his triumphalism.