Author: Jovanovski, Thomas.
Title: Aesthetic transformations : taking Nietzsche at his word.
Description: New York & Oxford : Peter Lang, 1997. Hardcover. 155 pp. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : as new. - In this provocative work, Thomas Jovanovski presents a contrasting interpretation to the postmodernist and feminist reading of Nietzsche. As Jovanovski maintains, 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 ethics that originate from 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 regard the rebirth of an old tragic mythos 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 -historical philosophizing- the phenomenal appearance of the Ubermensch. ISBN 9780820420028.
Keywords: PHILOSOPHY, Aesthetics
Title: Aesthetic transformations : taking Nietzsche at his word.
Description: New York & Oxford : Peter Lang, 1997. Hardcover. 155 pp. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : as new. - In this provocative work, Thomas Jovanovski presents a contrasting interpretation to the postmodernist and feminist reading of Nietzsche. As Jovanovski maintains, 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 ethics that originate from 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 regard the rebirth of an old tragic mythos 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 -historical philosophizing- the phenomenal appearance of the Ubermensch. ISBN 9780820420028.
Keywords: PHILOSOPHY, Aesthetics
Price: EUR 20.00 = appr. US$ 21.74 Seller: Kloof Booksellers & Scientia Verlag
- Book number: %23289571
- Book number: %23289571