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If You Were Looking For A Philosopher Likely To Appeal To Americans, Friedrich Nietzsche Would Be Far From Your First Choice. After All, In His Blazing Career, Nietzsche Took Aim At Nearly All The Foundations Of Modern American Life: Christian Morality, The Enlightenment Faith In Reason, And The Idea Of Human Equality. Despite That, For More Than A Century Nietzsche Has Been A Hugely Popular--and Surprisingly Influential--figure In American Thought And Culture. In American Nietzsche, Jennifer Ratner-rosenhagen Delves Deeply Into Nietzsche's Philosophy, And America's Reception Of It, To Tell The Story Of His Curious Appeal. Beginning Her Account With Ralph Waldo Emerson, Whom The Seventeen-year-old Nietzsche Read Fervently, She Shows How Nietzsche's Ideas First Burst On American Shores At The Turn Of The Twentieth Century, And How They Continued Alternately To Invigorate And To Shock Americans For The Century To Come. She Also Delineates The Broader Intellectual And Cultural Contexts Within Which A Wide Array Of Commentators--academic And Armchair Philosophers, Theologians And Atheists, Romantic Poets And Hard-nosed Empiricists, And Political Ideologues And Apostates From The Left A

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Author

Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen

Publisher

University Of Chicago Press

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780226705842

Category

history

Subjects

History, Philosophy, American Studies

Rating

3.98 / 5 (112 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14