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182Nietzsche, life as literatureHarvard University Press. 1985.Argues that Nietzsche tried to create a specific literary character in his writings and discusses the paradoxes of his work
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64Is Living an Art that Can be Taught?Journal of Philosophical Research 40 (Supplement): 81-91. 2015.Along with our inordinate emphasis on managing our lives on the basis of impartial principles and rules, we have lost the sense that some of the greatest human achievements are accomplished precisely by going beyond anything that existing rules and principles allow. Along with our fixation on the values of morality and politics, which apply to everyone on the basis of our similarities to one another, we have lost the sense that there are also values that depend on our differences and distinguish…Read more
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12Studies in Presocratic Philosophy. Volume II: Eleatics and PluralistsR. E. Allen David J. FurleyIsis 68 (3): 470-471. 1977.
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47Ronald Hayman, "Nietzsche: A Critical Life" (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 20 (1): 98. 1982.
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25Fateful Beauty: Aesthetic Environments, Juvenile Development, and Literature, 1860-1960Common Knowledge 15 (2): 216-216. 2009.
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73Participation and Predication in Plato's Later ThoughtReview of Metaphysics 36 (2). 1982.ONE of the central characteristics of Plato's later metaphysics is his view that Forms can participate in other Forms. At least part of what the Sophist demonstrates is that though not every Form participates in every other, every Form participates in some Forms, and that there are some Forms in which all Forms participate. This paper considers some of the reasons for this development, and some of the issues raised by it.
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93Only a Promise of Happiness: The Place of Beauty in a World of ArtPrinceton University Press. 2007.Neither art nor philosophy was kind to beauty during the twentieth century. Much modern art disdains beauty, and many philosophers deeply suspect that beauty merely paints over or distracts us from horrors. Intellectuals consigned the passions of beauty to the margins, replacing them with the anemic and rarefied alternative, "aesthetic pleasure." In Only a Promise of Happiness, Alexander Nehamas reclaims beauty from its critics. He seeks to restore its place in art, to reestablish the connection…Read more
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11Nietzsche: Writings From the Early Notebooks (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2009.Nietzsche's unpublished notes are extraordinary in both volume and interest, and indispensable to a full understanding of his lifelong engagement with the fundamental questions of philosophy. This volume includes an extensive selection of the notes he kept during the early years of his career. They address the philosophy of Schopenhauer, the nature of tragedy, the relationship of language to music, the importance of Classical Greek culture for modern life, and the value of the unfettered pursuit…Read more
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29Review: The Return of the Beautiful: Morality, Pleasure, and the Value of Uncertainty (review)Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 58 (4). 2000.
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36Plato on imitation and poetry in republic 10In J. M. E. Moravcsik & Philip Temko (eds.), Plato on Beauty, Wisdom, and the Arts, Rowman & Littlefield. 1982.
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103Episteme and Logos in Plato’s Later ThoughtArchiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 66 (1): 11-36. 1984.
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Painting as an Art: Persons, Artists, Spectators and RolesIn J. Hopkins & A. Savile (eds.), Psychoanalysis Mind and Art, Blackwell. pp. 239--258. 1992.
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6Who Are the Philosophers of the Future? A Reading of Beyond Good and EvilIn Robert C. Solomon & Kathleen Marie Higgins (eds.), Reading Nietzsche, Oxford University Press. pp. 52--53. 1988.
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18Chapter NineProceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 2 (1): 275-316. 1986.
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27The Material Word: Some Theories of Language and Its LimitsPhilosophical Review 90 (1): 122. 1981.
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27La théorie platonicienne de La Doxa (review)International Studies in Philosophy 16 (3): 91-93. 1984.
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91Richard Shusterman on pleasure and aesthetic experienceJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 56 (1): 49-51. 1998.
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12From the Many to the One: A Study of Personality and Views of Human Nature in the Context of Ancient Greek Society, Values, and BeliefsPhilosophical Review 82 (3): 395. 1973.
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31The Art of Living: Socratic Reflections from Plato to FoucaultPhilosophical Review 109 (3): 423. 2000.From his own day to the present Socrates has presented a challenge to philosophers and commentators, a challenge at once of a puzzle to be solved and of an ideal to be continually reshaped in response to the demands of shifting historical perspectives. Alexander Nehamas’s intriguing book combines discussion of this ongoing process, specifically of responses to Socrates by Montaigne, Nietzsche, and Foucault, with exemplification of it via his own response to Socrates. The focus of these responses…Read more
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