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In Nietzsche's Footsteps (2nd ed.)8th House. 2018.A philosophical travel memoir, discussing Nietzsche's life and philosophy while visiting his three favorite residences, Nice, Turin, and Sils-Maria.
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12Science, culture, and free spirits: a study of Nietzsche's Human, all-too-humanHumanity Books. 2010.Full-length studies of individual books of Nietzsche have been lacking until now both because of the immaturity of the field and because Nietzsche's style itself seems to contraindicate them. Close reading, however, reveals a great deal of literary and philosophical unity. This holds good even of Human, All-Too-Human, Nietzsche's longest and most unwieldy work. The book represents Nietzsche's break with Schopenhauer and Wagner, as well as the birth of Nietzsche as we know him in the later works.…Read more
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590Nietzsche’s Musical Conception of TimeIn Manuel Dries (ed.), Nietzsche on Time and History, Walter De Gruyter. pp. 291. 2008.
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36Rex Aut LexApeiron 29 (2). 1996.Compares the differing answers as to whether human rulers or the law should be supreme in the works of Plato and Aristotle
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45Philosophy is Education is PoliticsAncient Philosophy 22 (1): 1-20. 2002.In the central section of the _Protagoras_, the discussion between Socrates and Protagoras has broken down in a seemingly irresolvable dispute about methodology - Protagoras wants to make long speeches, while Socrates wants to proceed by means of the short questions and answers characteristic of the elenchus. The onlookers offer solutions in an attempt to restart the discussion. This section appears to be a mere dramatic interlude, but I argue that in fact it constitutes a parable establishing l…Read more
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17Nietzsche’s Philosophy of Science (review)International Studies in Philosophy 35 (4): 148-149. 2003.
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13Nietzsche’s Philosophy of Science (review)International Studies in Philosophy 35 (4): 148-149. 2003.
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56Born to Affirm the Eternal RecurrencePhilosophy in the Contemporary World 3 (3): 1-11. 1996.I argue that the Bruce Springsteen song “Born to Run” needs to be interpreted in light of---and thus gives evidence of a connection between---the philosophies of Friedrich Nietzsche and Martin Buber. Along the way I give an in-depth reading of the Nietzschean doctrines of Eternal Recurrence and Overman as they emerge from Also Sprach Zarathustra, as well as a brief overview of Buber’s I and Thou.
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