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| Title | : | The Pre-Platonic Philosophers (INS) |
| Author | : | Friedrich Nietzsche |
| Book Format | : | paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 336 pages |
| Published | : | July 1st 2006 by University of Illinois Press (first published December 1st 1876) |
| Categories | : | Philosophy. Nonfiction. European Literature. German Literature |
Friedrich Nietzsche
paperback | Pages: 336 pages Rating: 4.07 | 68 Users | 7 Reviews
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The text of Nietzsche's lecture course of 1872-73, written between The Birth of Tragedy and Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks; the lectures were never polished for publication and never published separately even in German before 1995, but remained buried in the Gesammelte Werke in an incomplete form and unknown to all but Nietzsche specialists. There are seventeen lectures, which cover all the major Pre-Socratic natural philosophers from Thales to Democritus, as well as the later Pythagoreans and Socrates. Nietzsche has many interesting insights on these philosophers, especially Anaximander, Heraclitus and Anaxagoras, some of which foreshadow modern views of the development of Greek philosophy and others which are more iconoclastic (or even rather strange). I had always wondered why Nietzsche never wrote anything on the Sophists, who seem to me to have some resemblances to his thought, but from the comment on them in the lecture on Socrates it appears he accepts the Platonic denigration of them at face value.The major importance of the lectures, however, is for the light they shed on his own philosophy and its development. The text is accompanied by an extensive commentary by Whitlock which traces the origins of many of his ideas in the Neo-Kantian materialists such as Lange and Ueberweg, as well as of course Schopenhauer, and the eighteenth century physicist Roger Joseph Boscovich, and also shows how his interpretation of the early Greek philosphers leads to his later ideas of eternal recurrence and the will to power. This book will be a must-read for all students of nineteenth century German philosophy.
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| Original Title: | Die vorplatonischen Philosophen |
| ISBN: | 0252074033 (ISBN13: 9780252074035) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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Ratings: 4.07 From 68 Users | 7 ReviewsWrite-Up Appertaining To Books The Pre-Platonic Philosophers (INS)
A joy to read because of new material on Nietzsche's thought of the Greek philosophers.
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The text of Nietzsche's lecture course of 1872-73, written between The Birth of Tragedy and Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks; the lectures were never polished for publication and never published separately even in German before 1995, but remained buried in the Gesammelte Werke in an incomplete form and unknown to all but Nietzsche specialists. There are seventeen lectures, which cover all the major Pre-Socratic natural philosophers from Thales to Democritus, as well as the later
An important and ignored work that let us understand Nietzsches philosophy of becoming. His lectures on Greek philosophy illuminates his own oeuvre. It is also informs us about Nietzsches genealogical philosophy.
Particularly interesting if you are curious about the origins of scientific thought.
I thought the lectures shined a lot of light on the early development of N's thoughts on the Greeks and offered a lot of cool foreshadowing of future ideas, but the translator/editor's approach was too heavy-handed for my taste and tended to ruin the flow of the prose with excessive explanatory insertions.
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