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Nietzsche’s New Seas

Explorations in Philosophy, Aesthetics, and Politics

Nietzsche’s New Seas makes available for the first time in English a representative sample of the best recent Nietzsche scholarship from Germany, France, and the United States. Michael Allen Gillespie and Tracy B. Strong have brought together scholars from a variety of disciplines—philosophy, history, literary criticism, and musicology—and from schools of thought that differ both methodologically and ideologically. The contributors—Karsten Harries, Robert Pippin, Eugen Fink, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Kurt Paul Janz, Sarah Kofman, Jean-Michel Rey, and the editors themselves—take a new approach to Nietzsche, one that begins with the claim that his enigmatic utterances can best be understood by examining the style or structure of his thought.

248 pages | 6 x 9 | © 1988

Philosophy: History and Classic Works

Political Science: Political and Social Theory

Table of Contents

Introduction
Part I. Beyond Philosophy and Poetry: Sailing a Sunless Sea
1. The Philosopher at Sea
Karsten Harries
2. Irony and Affirmation in Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Robert Pippin
II. Toward a New Logic: Singing the Sirens’ Song
3. Commentary
Jean-Michel Rey, translated by Tracy B. Strong
4. The Form-Content Problem in Nietzsche’s Conception of Music
Curt Paul Janz, translated by Thomas Heilke
5. Nietzsche’s Musical Politics
Michael Allen Gillespie
III. Visions of the Blessed Isles: Nietzsche’s New World
6. Nietzsche’s Political Aesthetics
Tracy B. Strong
7. Baubô: Theological Perversion and Fetishism
Sarah Kofman, translated by Tracy B. Strong
8. Nietzsche’s New Experience of World
Eugen Fink, translated by Michael Allen Gillespie
9. The Drama of Zarathustra
Hans-Georg Gadamer, translated by Thomas Heilke
Contributors
Index

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