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Mar 17, 2017 · Friedrich Nietzsche. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) was a German philosopher and cultural critic who published intensively in the 1870s and 1880s. He is famous for uncompromising criticisms of traditional European morality and religion, as well as of conventional philosophical ideas and social and political pieties associated with modernity ...
Oct 17, 2019 · This book is the most recent attempt to think through and harness the redoubtable genius of Nietzsche in order that sociology might prosper. That it fails to do so is not because the book is without merit – it undoubtedly is; but, perhaps not for the reasons or in the ways fully intended by the author. I shall address the merits of the book ...
- Christopher Thorpe
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Nietzsche is the oldest of these thinkers; he dies in 1900 and stops working a decade before due to mental illness. While he was ill, his sister, a proto-Nazi and associate of Hitler, cared for him. Her control of his papers and how they were released to the public painted him as a proto-Nazi himself, but reading his whole oeuvre illuminates ...
Below is the article summary. For the full article, see Friedrich Nietzsche . Friedrich Nietzsche, (born Oct. 15, 1844, Röcken, Saxony, Prussia—died Aug. 25, 1900, Weimar, Thuringian States), German-Swiss philosopher and writer, one of the most influential of modern thinkers. The son of a Lutheran pastor, he studied at Bonn and Leipzig and ...
May 30, 1997 · Friedrich Nietzsche was a German philosopher of the late 19th century who challenged the foundations of Christianity and traditional morality. He believed in life, creativity, health, and the realities of the world we live in, rather than those situated in a world beyond. Central to his philosophy is the idea of “life-affirmation,” which ...
Examines the sociological aspects of Nietzsche's philosophy, focusing on his distinction between the powerful and the powerless and relating his concept of power to current sociological theory. The method of parallelism, while leaving much to be desired, shows how Nietzsche's thought is sociological and still valid today. Aspects of power considered by Nietzsche are seen as extending the ...
Sep 1, 2013 · Abstract. This Handbook offers several papers on Nietzsche’s main philosophical topics supplemented with sets of papers dealing with biography, relations with other philosophers, and his individual works. Topics covered by the papers include Nietzsche’s biography, family, attitude towards women, his sickness and madness, his interest in the ...
