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Nietzsche, Biology and Metaphor

By Gregory Moore

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2006
ISBN
0521024277, 9780521024273
Open Library ID
OL7714094M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
923 kB (945619 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
240\238
Topic
Biology
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-04-18 11:31:18

Description

This study explores the German philosopher's response to the intellectual debates sparked by the publication of Charles Darwin's Origin of Species. By examining the abundance of biological metaphors in Nietzsche's writings, Gregory Moore questions his recent reputation as an eminently subversive and post modern thinker. The book analyzes key themes of Nietzsche's thought--his critique of morality, his philosophy of art and the Übermensch--in the light of the theory of evolution, the nineteenth-century sense of decadence and the rise of anti-Semitism.

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