Nietzsche on Time and History.

In 1885 Nietzsche insisted that from now on philosophy was only acceptable?as the most general form of history, as an attempt somehow to describe Heraclitean becoming and to abbreviate it into signs.? Taking this remark as a starting point, the aim of this volume is to examine the intricate relation...

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Main Author: Dries, Manuel
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin : Walter de Gruyter, 2008.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Abbreviations and Translations; Nietzsche's Critique of Staticism; Nietzsche's Cultural Criticism and his Historical Methodology; Thucydides, Nietzsche, and Williams; The Late Nietzsche's Fundamental Critique of Historical Scholarship; Nietzsche's Timely Genealogy: An Exercise in Anti-Reductionist Naturalism; From Kantian Temporality to Nietzschean Naturalism; Nietzsche's Problem of the Past; Towards Adualism: Becoming and Nihilism in Nietzsche's Philosophy; Shocking Time: Reading Eternal Recurrence Literally; Suicide, Meaning, and Redemption.
  • Nietzsche and the Temporality of (Self- )LegislationGeschichte or Historie? Nietzsche's Second Untimely Meditation in the Context of Nineteenth-Century Philological Studies; 'An Uncanny Re-Awakening': Nietzsche's Renascence of the Renaissance out of the Spirit of Jacob Burckhardt; Metaphysical and Historical Claims in The Birth of Tragedy; Nietzsche's Musical Conception of Time; Backmatter.