Nietzsche's Philosophy of Art
- Author: Julian Young, University of Auckland
- Date Published: May 1994
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521455756
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This is a clear and lucid account of Nietzsche's philosophy of art, combining exegesis, interpretation and criticism in a judicious balance. Julian Young argues that Nietzsche's thought about art can only be understood in the context of his wider philosophy. In particular, he discusses the dramatic changes in Nietzschean aesthetics against the background of the celebrated themes of the death of God, eternal recurrence, and the idea of the Übermensch. Young then divides Nietzsche's career and his philosophy of art into four distinct phases, but suggests that these phases describe a circle. An attempt at world-affirmation is made in the central phases, but Nietzsche is predominantly influenced at the beginning and end of his career by a Schopenhauerian pessimism. At the beginning and end art is important because it 'redeems' us from life.
Read more- Well received hardback - reviewed in Philosophical Quarterly, British Journal of Aesthetics, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Journal of the History of Philosophy
- First book on this subject in English, now in paperback
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- Date Published: May 1994
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521455756
- length: 188 pages
- dimensions: 227 x 152 x 12 mm
- weight: 0.31kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Introduction
1. Schopenhauer
2. The birth of tragedy
3. Human, all-too-human
4. The gay science
5. Twilight of the idols
Epilogue
Notes
Texts and translations
Index.
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