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Leo Strauss on Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Leo Strauss
Leo Strauss on Nietzsche s Thus Spoke Zarathustra Book PDF

Author : Leo Strauss
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226486772

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Leo Strauss on Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Leo Strauss Pdf

Although Leo Strauss published little on Nietzsche, his lectures and correspondence demonstrate a deep critical engagement with Nietzsche’s thought. One of the richest contributions is a seminar on Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra, taught in 1959 during Strauss’s tenure at the University of Chicago. In the lectures, Strauss draws important parallels between Nietzsche’s most important project and his own ongoing efforts to restore classical political philosophy. With Leo Strauss on Nietzsche’s “Thus Spoke Zarathustra,” eminent Strauss scholar Richard L. Velkley presents Strauss’s lectures on Zarathustra with superb annotations that bring context and clarity to the critical role played by Nietzsche in shaping Strauss’s thought. In addition to the broad relationship between Nietzsche and political philosophy, Strauss adeptly guides readers through Heidegger’s confrontations with Nietzsche, laying out Heidegger’s critique of Nietzsche’s “will to power” while also showing how Heidegger can be read as a foil for his own reading of Nietzsche. The lectures also shed light on the relationship between Heidegger and Strauss, as both philosophers saw Nietzsche as a central figure for understanding the crisis of philosophy and Western civilization. Strauss’s reading of Nietzsche is one of the important—yet little appreciated—philosophical inquiries of the past century, both an original interpretation of Nietzsche’s thought and a deep engagement with the core problems that modernity posed for political philosophy. It will be welcomed by anyone interested in the work of either philosopher.

Leo Strauss and Nietzsche

Laurence Lampert
Leo Strauss and Nietzsche Book PDF

Author : Laurence Lampert
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0226468267

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Leo Strauss and Nietzsche by Laurence Lampert Pdf

For Lampert, Strauss's essay is equally important for understanding Strauss himself. Lampert's Strauss is a sympathetic admirer of Nietzsche and his teachings, who ultimately situates him in the company of Plato and elevates understanding the contest between Plato and Nietzsche into the highest task facing contemporary or postmodern philosophy. Why, then, should Strauss have kept this admiration hidden while permitting such a distorted public view of his thought? And why should he have discouraged others from appreciating the teachings that had proved so important to his own philosophical liberation and training? According to Lampert, the answers lie in Strauss's own esoteric writing, full of subtexts, implications, and consequences. Strauss conceived of philosophy as a furtive undertaking, and believed Nietzsche had rejected the necessity of this role for philosophy in favor of a daring candor.

What is Nietzsche's Zarathustra?

Heinrich Meier
What is Nietzsche s Zarathustra Book PDF

Author : Heinrich Meier
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226581569

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What is Nietzsche's Zarathustra? by Heinrich Meier Pdf

"In this book Heinrich Meier takes on the question of the meaning of Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra, which has long proven controversial among readers. Meier closely examines the work to find a coherent structure and uncover the meanings in the figure of Zarathustra. By showing the unity in Zarathustra's life and teaching, Meier argues that the hidden architecture of the work reveals the development of self-knowledge for the philosopher. What Is Nietzsche's Zarathustra? A Philosophical Confrontation makes clear in its careful attention to the text that Nietzsche's deepest concern is with understanding himself and the world, rather than with a view of himself as a prophet"--

Nietzsche's Teaching

Laurence Lampert
Nietzsche s Teaching Book PDF

Author : Laurence Lampert
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0300044305

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The first comprehensive interpretation of Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra--an important and difficult text and the only book Nietzsche ever wrote with characters, events, setting, and a plot. Laurence Lampert's chapter-by-chapter commentary on Nietzsche's magnum opus clarifies not only Zarathustra's narrative structure but also the development of Nietzsche's thinking as a whole. "An impressive piece of scholarship. Insofar as it solves the riddle of Zarathustra in an unprecedented fashion, this study serves as an invaluable resource for all serious students of Nietzsche's philosophy. Lampert's persuasive and thorough interpretation is bound to spark a revival of interest in Zarathustra and raise the standards of Nietzsche scholarship in general."--Daniel W. Conway, Review of Metaphysics "A book of scholarship, filled with passion and concern for its text."--Tracy B. Strong, Review of Politics "This is the first genuine textual commentary on Zarathustra in English, and therewith a genuine reader's guide. It makes a significant and original contribution to its field."--Werner J. Dannhauser, Cornell University "This is a very valuable and carefully wrought study of a very complex and subtle poetic-philosophical work that provides access to Nietzsche's style of presenting his thought, as well as to his passionately affirmed values. Lampert's commentary and analysis of Zarathustra is so thorough and detailed. . . that it is the most useful English-language companion to Nietzsche's 'edifying' and intriguing work."--Choice Selected as one of Choice's outstanding academic books for 1988

The Enduring Importance of Leo Strauss

Laurence Lampert
The Enduring Importance of Leo Strauss Book PDF

Author : Laurence Lampert
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226039510

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The Enduring Importance of Leo Strauss by Laurence Lampert Pdf

The Enduring Importance of Leo Strauss takes on the crucial task of separating what is truly important in the work of Leo Strauss from the ephemeral politics associated with his school. Laurence Lampert focuses on exotericism: the use of artful rhetoric to simultaneously communicate a socially responsible message to the public at large and a more radical message of philosophic truth to a smaller, more intellectually inclined audience. Largely forgotten after the Enlightenment, exotericism, he shows, deeply informed Strauss both as a reader and as a philosophic writer—indeed, Lampert argues, Strauss learned from the finest practitioners of exoteric writing how to become one himself. Examining some of Strauss’s most important books and essays through this exoteric lens, Lampert reevaluates not only Strauss but the philosophers—from Plato to Halevi to Nietzsche—with whom Strauss most deeply engaged. Ultimately Lampert shows that Strauss’s famous distinction between ancient and modern thinkers is primarily rhetorical, one of the great examples of Strauss’s exoteric craft. Celebrating Strauss’s achievements while recognizing one main shortcoming—unlike Nietzsche, he failed to appreciate the ramifications of modern natural science for philosophy and its public presentation—Lampert illuminates Strauss as having even greater philosophic importance than we have thought before.

Leo Strauss

Robert Howse
Leo Strauss Book PDF

Author : Robert Howse
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107074996

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Leo Strauss by Robert Howse Pdf

"Leo Strauss is known to many people as a thinker of the right, who inspired hawkish views on national security and perhaps even advocated war without limits. Moving beyond gossip and innuendo about Strauss's followers and the Bush administration, this book provides the first comprehensive analysis of Strauss's writings on political violence, considering also what he taught in the classroom on this subject. In stark contrast to popular perception, Strauss emerges as a man of peace, favorably disposed to international law and skeptical of imperialism - a critic of radical ideologies (right and left) who warns of the dangers to free thought and civil society when philosophers and intellectuals ally themselves with movements that advocate violence. Robert Howse provides new readings of Strauss's confrontation with fascist/Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt, his debate with Alexandre Kojáeve about philosophy and tyranny, and his works on Machiavelli and Thucydides and examines Strauss's lectures on Kant's Perpetual Peace and Grotius's Rights of War and Peace"--

Nietzsche's Enlightenment

Paul Franco
Nietzsche s Enlightenment Book PDF

Author : Paul Franco
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226259819

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Nietzsche's Enlightenment by Paul Franco Pdf

While much attention has been lavished on Friedrich Nietzsche’s earlier and later works, those of his so-called middle period have been generally neglected, perhaps because of their aphoristic style or perhaps because they are perceived to be inconsistent with the rest of his thought. With Nietzsche’s Enlightenment, Paul Franco gives this crucial section of Nietzsche’s oeuvre its due, offering a thoughtful analysis of the three works that make up the philosopher’s middle period: Human, All too Human; Daybreak; and The Gay Science. It is Nietzsche himself who suggests that these works are connected, saying that their “common goal is to erect a new image and ideal of the free spirit.” Franco argues that in their more favorable attitude toward reason, science, and the Enlightenment, these works mark a sharp departure from Nietzsche’s earlier, more romantic writings and differ in important ways from his later, more prophetic writings, beginning with Thus Spoke Zarathustra. The Nietzsche these works reveal is radically different from the popular image of him and even from the Nietzsche depicted in much of the secondary literature; they reveal a rational Nietzsche, one who preaches moderation instead of passionate excess and Dionysian frenzy. Franco concludes with a wide-ranging examination of Nietzsche’s later works, tracking not only how his outlook changes from the middle period to the later but also how his commitment to reason and intellectual honesty in his middle works continues to inform his final writings.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Friedrich Nietzsche
Thus Spoke Zarathustra Book PDF

Author : Friedrich Nietzsche
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2008-08-14
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780199537099

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Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche Pdf

Presents the author's ideas about the problem of living a fulfilling life in a meaningless world.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Friedrich Nietzsche
Thus Spoke Zarathustra Book PDF

Author : Friedrich Nietzsche
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1974-02-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780141904320

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Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche Pdf

'Enigmatic, vatic, emphatic, passionate . . . Nietzsche's works together make a unique statement in the literature of European ideas' A. C. Grayling Nietzsche was one of the most revolutionary thinkers in Western philosophy, and Thus Spoke Zarathustra remains his most influential work. It describes how the ancient Persian prophet Zarathustra descends from his solitude in the mountains to tell the world that God is dead and that the Superman, the human embodiment of divinity, is his successor. With blazing intensity, Nietzsche argues that the meaning of existence is not to be found in religious pieties or meek submission, but in an all-powerful life force: passionate, chaotic and free. Translated with an introduction by R. J. HOLLINGDALE

Nietzsche's Zarathustra

Kathleen Marie Higgins
Nietzsche s Zarathustra Book PDF

Author : Kathleen Marie Higgins
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781461662679

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Nietzsche's Zarathustra by Kathleen Marie Higgins Pdf

Nietzsche's Zarathustra takes an interdisciplinary approach to Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra, focusing on the philosophical function of its literary techniques and its fictional mode of presentation. It argues that the fictional format is essential to Nietzsche's philosophical message in his work. Part of that message is Nietzsche's alternative to the Western worldview as developed by Plato's dialogues and the Christian Gospel, which he presents through the teachings of his hero, Zarathustra. Another part of that message is that any doctrine, including those of Zarathustra himself, has an ambivalent nature. Although doctrinal formulations are designed to preserve and communicate philosophical insights, they can become dead formulas, out of touch with the live philosophical discoveries that they aimed to capture. Thus Spoke Zarathustra explores Zarathustra's own vulnerability to this risk, and his way of regaining real connection with living wisdom. The doctrine of eternal recurrence, which is particular prominent in Zarathustra, is a case in point. The doctrine is offered in opposition to the worldview that Nietzsche associates with the Christian doctrine of sin, which in his view promotes a view of this life as devoid of intrinsic value. However, certain ways of adhering to this doctrine themselves rob life of its value. The book also defends the importance of Part IV of Thus Spoke Zarathustra, which many scholars have seen as unimportant by comparison with the first three parts. Nietzsche's Zarathustra argues that Part III would not have been a culmination for the work, and that Part IV is essential to Nietzsche's project. Part IV's allusions to Apuleius' The Golden Ass, an ancient Menippean satire, suggest that it should be read as a satire in which Zarathustra falls into and recovers from folly. It is thus the culminating statement of the point that there is always a discrepancy between the living philosophical insight and any attempt to articulate it,

Leo Strauss, Education, and Political Thought

J. G. York,Michael A. Peters
Leo Strauss Education and Political Thought Book PDF

Author : J. G. York,Michael A. Peters
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781611470550

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Leo Strauss, Education, and Political Thought by J. G. York,Michael A. Peters Pdf

This collection by some of the leading scholars of Strauss' work is the first devoted to Strauss' thought regarding education. It seeks to address his conception of education as it applies to a range of his most important concepts, such as his views on the importance of revelation, his critique of modern democracy and the importance of modern classical education.

Nietzsche's Task

Laurence Lampert
Nietzsche s Task Book PDF

Author : Laurence Lampert
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780300128833

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Nietzsche's Task by Laurence Lampert Pdf

When Nietzsche published Beyond Good and Evil in 1886, he told a friend that it was a book that would not be read properly until “around the year 2000.” Now Laurence Lampert sets out to fulfill this prophecy by providing a section by section interpretation of this philosophical masterpiece that emphasizes its unity and depth as a comprehensive new teaching on nature and humanity. According to Lampert, Nietzsche begins with a critique of philosophy that is ultimately affirmative, because it shows how philosophy can arrive at a defensible ontological account of the way of all beings. Nietzsche next argues that a new post-Christian religion can arise out of the affirmation of the world disclosed to philosophy. Then, turning to the implications of the new ontology for morality and politics, Nietzsche argues that these can be reconstituted on the fundamental insights of the new philosophy. Nietzsche’s comprehensive depiction of this anti-Platonic philosophy ends with a chapter on nobility, in which he contends that what can now be publicly celebrated as noble in our species are its highest achievements of mind and spirit.

Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Douglas Burnham
Nietzsche s Thus Spoke Zarathustra Book PDF

Author : Douglas Burnham
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780748642434

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Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Douglas Burnham Pdf

A step-by-step guide to Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Thus Spoke Zarathustra is one of Nietzsche's greatest books, a cross-over text that combines philosophical innovation with literary experimentation. With Zarathustra Nietzsche has attempted a redefinition of the form-content correlation in philosophical writing and as such the text is considered an experiment in philosophical style. It therefore represents a large hurdle for undergraduate students. This projected commentary works on the assumption that access to the philosophical core of the text can only be gained through taking its literary ambitions seriously and that, moreover, these literary ambitions can only be understood as an attempt to realise philosophical ideas. This is a book that is designed to be read alongside Nietzsche and will therefore make the reading and appreciation of the primary material achievable. This approach will be welcomed by students and lecturers alike.

Thus Spake Zarathustra

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Thus Spake Zarathustra Book PDF

Author : Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Publisher : Algora Publishing
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780875862095

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Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Pdf

Nietzsche?s classic on the Superman, in a new, more accurate and more acute translation, recaptures his wordplay, emotional color and mock-Biblical tone, his boyish malice, cracked aphorisms, academic irreverence and gutter rhymes.

Leo Strauss on Hegel

Leo Strauss
Leo Strauss on Hegel Book PDF

Author : Leo Strauss
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226816784

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Leo Strauss on Hegel by Leo Strauss Pdf

In the winter of 1965, Leo Strauss taught a seminar on Hegel at the University of Chicago. While Strauss neither considered himself a Hegelian nor wrote about Hegel at any length, his writings contain intriguing references to the philosopher, particularly in connection with his studies of Hobbes, in his debate in On Tyranny with Alexandre Kojève; and in his account of the “three waves” of modern political philosophy. Leo Strauss on Hegel reconstructs Strauss’s seminar on Hegel, supplemented by passages from an earlier version of the seminar from which only fragments of a transcript remain. Strauss focused his seminar on the lectures collected in The Philosophy of History, which he considered more accessible than Hegel’s written works. In his own lectures on Hegel, Strauss continues his project of demonstrating how modern philosophers related to ancient thought and explores the development and weaknesses of modern political theory. Strauss is especially concerned with the relationship in Hegel between empirical history and his philosophy of history, and he argues for the primacy of religion in Hegel’s understanding of history and society. In addition to a relatively complete transcript, Leo Strauss on Hegel also includes annotations, which bring context and clarity to the text.