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In This Study, Thomas Jovanovski Presents A Contrasting Interpretation To The Postmodernist And Feminist Readings Of Nietzsche. As Jovanovski Holds, Nietzsche's Written Thought Is Above All A Sustained Endeavor Aimed At Negating And Superseding The Primarily Socratic Principles Of Western Ontology With A New Table Of Aesthetic Ethics That Is Informed By The Dionysian Insight Of Aeschylean Tragedy. Just As The Platonic Socrates Perceived A Pressing Need For, And Succeeded In Establishing, A New World-historical Ethic And Aesthetic Direction Grounded In Reason, Science, And Optimism, So Does Nietzsche Advocate The Rebirth Of This Tragic Consciousness As The Vehicle Toward A Cultural, Political, And Religious Metamorphosis Of The West. However, Jovanovski Contends That Nietzsche Does Not Advocate Such A Radical Social Turning As An End In Itself, But As Only The Most Consequential Prerequisite To Realizing The Culminating Object Of His Supra-historical Model - The Phenomenal Appearance Of The Ubermensch.--jacket. Thomas Jovanovski. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [141]-144) And Index.

Author

Jovanovski, Thomas, 1952-

Publisher

Peter Lang Publishing; Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers; P. Lang; Peter Lang

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9780820420028

Subjects

Philosophy, History, Humanities