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I Am Dynamite!

Author : Sue Prideaux
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 1524760846
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (247 download)

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Download or read book I Am Dynamite! written by Sue Prideaux and published by Crown. This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES Editors’ Choice • THE TIMES BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR • WINNER OF THE HAWTHORNDEN PRIZE A groundbreaking new biography of philosophy’s greatest iconoclast Friedrich Nietzsche is one of the most enigmatic figures in philosophy, and his concepts—the Übermensch, the will to power, slave morality—have fundamentally reshaped our understanding of the human condition. But what do most people really know of Nietzsche—beyond the mustache, the scowl, and the lingering association with nihilism and fascism? Where do we place a thinker who was equally beloved by Albert Camus, Ayn Rand, Martin Buber, and Adolf Hitler? Nietzsche wrote that all philosophy is autobiographical, and in this vividly compelling, myth-shattering biography, Sue Prideaux brings readers into the world of this brilliant, eccentric, and deeply troubled man, illuminating the events and people that shaped his life and work. From his placid, devoutly Christian upbringing—overshadowed by the mysterious death of his father—through his teaching career, lonely philosophizing on high mountains, and heart-breaking descent into madness, Prideaux documents Nietzsche’s intellectual and emotional life with a novelist’s insight and sensitivity. She also produces unforgettable portraits of the people who were most important to him, including Richard and Cosima Wagner, Lou Salomé, the femme fatale who broke his heart; and his sister Elizabeth, a rabid German nationalist and anti-Semite who manipulated his texts and turned the Nietzsche archive into a destination for Nazi ideologues. I Am Dynamite! is the essential biography for anyone seeking to understand history's most misunderstood philosopher.

I Am Dynamite

Author : Nigel Rapport
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134575718
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (345 download)

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Download or read book I Am Dynamite written by Nigel Rapport and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-03-01 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Power is conventionally regarded as being held by social institutions. We are taught to believe that it is these social structures that determine the environment and circumstances of individual lives. In I Am Dynamite, the anthropologist Nigel Rappaport argues for a different view. Focusing on the lives and works of the writer and Auschwitz survivor Primo Levi, refugee and engineer Ben Glaser, Israeli ceramicist and immigrant Rachel Siblerstein, artist Stanley Spencer, and philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, he shows how we can have the capacity and inclination to formulate 'life projects'. It is in the pursuit of these life projects, that is, making our life our work, that we can avoid the structures of ideology and institution.

Edvard Munch

Author : Sue Prideaux
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300124019
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book Edvard Munch written by Sue Prideaux and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The biography of the artist who created the most haunting icon of the twentieth century

Nietzsche, Life as Literature

Author : Alexander Nehamas
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674624269
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (242 download)

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Download or read book Nietzsche, Life as Literature written by Alexander Nehamas and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than eighty years after his death, Nietzsche's writings and his career remain disquieting, disturbing, obscure. His most famous views--the will to power, the eternal recurrence, the bermensch, the master morality--often seem incomprehensible or, worse, repugnant. Yet he remains a thinker of singular importance, a great opponent of Hegel and Kant, and the source of much that is powerful in figures as diverse as Wittgenstein, Derrida, Heidegger, and many recent American philosophers. Alexander Nehamas provides the best possible guide for the perplexed. He reveals the single thread running through Nietzsche's views: his thinking of the world on the model of a literary text, of people as if they were literary characters, and of knowledge and science as if they were literary interpretation. Beyond this, he advances the clarity of the concept of textuality, making explicit some of the forces that hold texts together and so hold us together. Nehamas finally allows us to see that Nietzsche is creating a literary character out of himself, that he is, in effect, playing the role of Plato to his own Socrates. Nehamas discusses a number of opposing views, both American and European, of Nietzsche's texts and general project, and reaches a climactic solving of the main problems of Nietzsche interpretation in a step-by-step argument. In the process he takes up a set of very interesting questions in contemporary philosophy, such as moral relativism and scientific realism. This is a book of considerable breadth and elegance that will appeal to all curious readers of philosophy and literature.

Hiking with Nietzsche

Author : John Kaag
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374715742
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book Hiking with Nietzsche written by John Kaag and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2018-09-25 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A stimulating book about combating despair and complacency with searching reflection." --Heller McAlpin, NPR.org Named a Best Book of 2018 by NPR. One of Lit Hub's 15 Books You Should Read in September and one of Outside's Best Books of Fall A revelatory Alpine journey in the spirit of the great Romantic thinker Friedrich Nietzsche Hiking with Nietzsche: Becoming Who You Are is a tale of two philosophical journeys—one made by John Kaag as an introspective young man of nineteen, the other seventeen years later, in radically different circumstances: he is now a husband and father, and his wife and small child are in tow. Kaag sets off for the Swiss peaks above Sils Maria where Nietzsche wrote his landmark work Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Both of Kaag’s journeys are made in search of the wisdom at the core of Nietzsche’s philosophy, yet they deliver him to radically different interpretations and, more crucially, revelations about the human condition. Just as Kaag’s acclaimed debut, American Philosophy: A Love Story, seamlessly wove together his philosophical discoveries with his search for meaning, Hiking with Nietzsche is a fascinating exploration not only of Nietzsche’s ideals but of how his experience of living relates to us as individuals in the twenty-first century. Bold, intimate, and rich with insight, Hiking with Nietzsche is about defeating complacency, balancing sanity and madness, and coming to grips with the unobtainable. As Kaag hikes, alone or with his family, but always with Nietzsche, he recognizes that even slipping can be instructive. It is in the process of climbing, and through the inevitable missteps, that one has the chance, in Nietzsche’s words, to “become who you are."

Nietzsche

Author : Rüdiger Safranski
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393050080
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Nietzsche written by Rüdiger Safranski and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2002 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No other modern philosopher has proved as influential as Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) and none is as poorly understood. In the first new biography in decades, Rüdiger Safranski, one of the foremost living Nietzsche scholars, re-creates the anguished life of Nietzsche while simultaneously assessing the philosophical implications of his morality, religion, and art. Struggling to break away from the oppressive burdens of the past, Nietzsche invented a unique philosophy based on compulsive self-consciousness and constant self-revision. As groundbreaking as it will be long-lasting, this biography offers a brilliant, multifaceted portrait of a towering figure.

Nietzsche and the Ancient Skeptical Tradition

Author : Jessica Berry
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195368428
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Nietzsche and the Ancient Skeptical Tradition written by Jessica Berry and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2011 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work presents a portrait of Nietzsche as the skeptic par excellence in the modern period, by demonstrating how a careful and informed understanding of ancient Pyrrhonism illuminates his reflections on truth, knowledge and morality, as well as the very nature and value of philosophic inquiry.

Nietzsche’s “Ecce Homo”

Author : Nicholas Martin
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110246554
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Nietzsche’s “Ecce Homo” written by Nicholas Martin and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-12-16 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Friedrich Nietzsche’s intellectual autobiography Ecce Homo has always been a controversial book. Nietzsche prepared it for publication just before he became incurably insane in early 1889, but it was held back until after his death, and finally appeared only in 1908. For much of the first century of its reception, Ecce Homo met with a sceptical response and was viewed as merely a testament to its author’s incipient madness. This was hardly surprising, since he is deliberately outrageous with the ‘megalomaniacal’ self-advertisement of his chapter titles, and brazenly claims ‘I am not a man, I am dynamite’ as he attempts to explode one preconception after another in the Western philosophical tradition. In recent decades there has been increased interest in the work, especially in the English-speaking world, but the present volume is the first collection of essays in any language devoted to the work. Most of the essays are selected from the proceedings of an international conference held in London to mark the centenary of the first publication of Ecce Homo in 2008. They are supplemented by a number of specially commissioned essays. Contributors include established and emerging Nietzsche scholars from the UK and USA, Germany and France, Portugal, Sweden and the Netherlands.

Uncle Dynamite

Author : P. G. Wodehouse
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393346706
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book Uncle Dynamite written by P. G. Wodehouse and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “P.G. Wodehouse is still the funniest writer ever to have put words on paper.”—Hugh Laurie Uncle Fred’s nephew Pongo has just smashed the prized statue of his lady love’s father. His troubles multiply as the replacement bust is revealed to be a smuggling vessel filled with jewels. This bust busting gut buster has Uncle Fred and Wodehouse himself at the very height of their work.

Flippin' Sweet!

Author : Jared Hess
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416919147
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (169 download)

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Download or read book Flippin' Sweet! written by Jared Hess and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2005 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A flip-book of the dancing scene from the movie "Napoleon Dynamite."

Dangerous Minds

Author : Ronald Beiner
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812295412
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Dangerous Minds written by Ronald Beiner and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2018-03-12 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the fall of the Berlin Wall and demise of the Soviet Union, prominent Western thinkers began to suggest that liberal democracy had triumphed decisively on the world stage. Having banished fascism in World War II, liberalism had now buried communism, and the result would be an end of major ideological conflicts, as liberal norms and institutions spread to every corner of the globe. With the Brexit vote in Great Britain, the resurgence of right-wing populist parties across the European continent, and the surprising ascent of Donald Trump to the American presidency, such hopes have begun to seem hopelessly naïve. The far right is back, and serious rethinking is in order. In Dangerous Minds, Ronald Beiner traces the deepest philosophical roots of such right-wing ideologues as Richard Spencer, Aleksandr Dugin, and Steve Bannon to the writings of Nietzsche and Heidegger—and specifically to the aspects of their thought that express revulsion for the liberal-democratic view of life. Beiner contends that Nietzsche's hatred and critique of bourgeois, egalitarian societies has engendered new disciples on the populist right who threaten to overturn the modern liberal consensus. Heidegger, no less than Nietzsche, thoroughly rejected the moral and political values that arose during the Enlightenment and came to power in the wake of the French Revolution. Understanding Heideggerian dissatisfaction with modernity, and how it functions as a philosophical magnet for those most profoundly alienated from the reigning liberal-democratic order, Beiner argues, will give us insight into the recent and unexpected return of the far right. Beiner does not deny that Nietzsche and Heidegger are important thinkers; nor does he seek to expel them from the history of philosophy. But he does advocate that we rigorously engage with their influential thought in light of current events—and he suggests that we place their severe critique of modern liberal ideals at the center of this engagement.

I Am Better Than You

Author : Robert Lopshire
Publisher : Harpercollins
ISBN 13 : 9780060239978
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (399 download)

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Download or read book I Am Better Than You written by Robert Lopshire and published by Harpercollins. This book was released on 1968-06-01 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two lizards try to outdo each other. The loser fails because he tries to turn the colors of a comic strip.

I Am Bonhoeffer

Author : Paul Barz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0800662342
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book I Am Bonhoeffer written by Paul Barz and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1943, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German pastor and theologian, was arrested and taken to Tegel prison in Berlin. This novel depicts a lonely and isolated Bonhoeffer looking back from his cell over the fateful trajectory that brought him to prison and later to trial.

Little Miss Dynamite

Author : Brenda Lee
Publisher : Hyperion
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Little Miss Dynamite written by Brenda Lee and published by Hyperion. This book was released on 2002-03-06 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A self-portrait of the child star who rose from the Georgia backwoods to pop music stardom illuminates the passion and drive that made Brenda Lee a celebrity and describes her tumultuous private life.

Wrestling Observer's Pure Dynamite

Author : Tom Billington
Publisher : Etobicoke, Ont. : Winding Stair Press
ISBN 13 : 9781553660842
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book Wrestling Observer's Pure Dynamite written by Tom Billington and published by Etobicoke, Ont. : Winding Stair Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Deadlift Dynamite

Author : Andy Bolton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780989892445
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (924 download)

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Download or read book Deadlift Dynamite written by Andy Bolton and published by . This book was released on 2022-02-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Nietzsche as Philosopher

Author : Arthur C. Danto
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Nietzsche as Philosopher written by Arthur C. Danto and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1965 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few philosophers are as widely read or as widely misunderstood as Friedrich Nietzsche. When Danto's classic study was first published in 1965, many regarded Nietzsche as a brilliant but somewhat erratic thinker. Danto, however, presented a radically different picture, arguing that Nietzsche offered a systematic and coherent philosophy that anticipated many of the questions that define contemporary philosophy. Danto's clear and insightful commentaries helped canonize Nietzsche as a philosopher and continue to illuminate subtleties in Nietzsche's work as well as his immense contributions to the philosophies of science, language, and logic. This new edition, which includes five additional essays, not only further enhances our understanding of Nietzsche's philosophy; it responds to the misunderstandings that continue to muddy his intellectual reputation. Even today, Nietzsche is seen as everything from a precursor of feminism and deconstruction to a prophetic writer and spokesperson for disgruntled teenage boys. As Danto points out in his preface, Nietzsche's writings have purportedly inspired recent acts of violence and school shootings. Danto counters these misreadings by elaborating an anti-Nietzschian philosophy from within Nietzsche's own philosophy "in the hope of disarming the rabid Nietzsche and neutralizing the vivid frightening images that have inspired sociopaths for over a century." The essays also consider specific works by Nietzsche, including Human, All Too Human and The Genealogy of Morals, as well as the philosopher's artistic metaphysics and semantical nihilism.