Nietzsche and Antiquity: His Reaction and Response to the Classical TraditionPaul Bishop Wide-ranging essays making up the first major study of Nietzsche and the classical tradition in a quarter of a century.This volume collects a wide-ranging set of essays examining Friedrich Nietzsche's engagement with antiquity in all its aspects. It investigates Nietzsche's reaction and response to the concept of "classicism," with particular reference to his work on Greek culture as a philologist in Basel and later as a philosopher of modernity, and to his reception of German classicism in all his texts. The book should be of interest to students of ancient history and classics, philosophy, comparative literature, and Germanistik. Taken together, these papers suggest that classicism is both a more significant, and a more contested, concept for Nietzsche than is often realized, and it demonstratesthe need for a return to a close attention to the intellectual-historical context in terms of which Nietzsche saw himself operating. An awareness of the rich variety of academic backgrounds, methodologies, and techniques of reading evinced in these chapters is perhaps the only way for the contemporary scholar to come to grips with what classicism meant for Nietzsche, and hence what Nietzsche means for us today. The book is divided into five sections -- The Classical Greeks; Pre-Socratics and Pythagoreans, Cynics and Stoics; Nietzsche and the Platonic Tradition; Contestations; and German Classicism -- and constitutes the first major study of Nietzsche and the classical tradition in a quarter of a century. Contributors: Jessica N. Berry, Benjamin Biebuyck, Danny Praet and Isabelle Vanden Poel, Paul Bishop, R. Bracht Branham, Thomas Brobjer, David Campbell, Alan Cardew, Roy Elveton, Christian Emden, Simon Gillham, John Hamilton, Mark Hammond, Albert Henrichs, Dirk t.D. Held, David F. Horkott, Dylan Jaggard, Fiona Jenkins, Anthony K. Jensen, Laurence Lampert, Nicholas Martin, Thomas A. Meyer, Burkhard Meyer-Sickendiek, John S. Moore, Neville Morley, David N. McNeill, James I. Porter, Martin A. Ruehl, Herman Siemens, Barry Stocker, Friedrich Ulfers and Mark Daniel Cohen, and Peter Yates. Paul Bishop is William Jacks Chair of Modern Languages at the University of Glasgow. |
Contents
Nietzsche Homer and the Classical Tradition | 7 |
Myth History | 27 |
Nietzsche Gobineau | 40 |
Nietzsche and Pindars Second | 54 |
Nietzsche Aristotle and Propositional Discourse | 70 |
Young Nietzsche on the Greek State | 79 |
The Origins of Ethical | 98 |
Nietzsche on Greek Polytheism | 114 |
On the Relationship of Alcibiades Speech | 260 |
Dionysus versus Dionysus | 277 |
Rhetoric Judgment and the Art of Surprise | 295 |
How Nietzsches On the Genealogy of Morals | 310 |
Nietzsches Aesthetic Solution to the Problem | 318 |
From Tragedy to Philosophical Novel | 329 |
Nietzsche Interpretation and Truth | 343 |
Nietzsche on Classicism | 372 |
Heraclitean Justice | 139 |
Nietzsches Meditations | 151 |
Uppercase or lowercase? | 170 |
Nietzsches Unpublished Fragments on Ancient | 182 |
The Depths Are Inside | 192 |
Nietzsche and Plato | 205 |
Nietzsche Nehemas and SelfCreation | 220 |
God Unpicked | 228 |
Nietzsches Wrestling with Plato and Platonism | 241 |
Common terms and phrases
aesthetic Alcibiades ancient antiquity aphorism Apollo Apollonian appears argues Aristotle ataraxia Basel beauty become Birth of Tragedy Burckhardt Cambridge century Christianity claim classical antiquity classical tradition classicist conception critical Cynic Democritus Diogenes Dionysian Dionysus discussion divine early epigonic Erwin Rohde essay eternal ethics Evil example existence Friedrich Nietzsche Gay Science Genealogy of Morals German Gobineau gods Goethe Goethe's Greece Greek culture Hellenic Heraclitus Homer human idea individual interpretation justice Klassische later lectures living means metaphysical modern myth nature Nehamas Nietzsche writes Nietzsche's view noble notion Olympian one's opposition Orphic Orphism perspective philology philosopher Pindar Plato political polytheism problem question reading reference religion rhetoric Rohde Romantic Schopenhauer second Untimely Meditation sense skeptical Socrates soul spirit Stoic suffering things thinking thought tion tragic trans truth Übermensch understanding University Untimely Meditation values Wagner Winckelmann Zarathustra