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Peisetairos of Aristophanes’ Birds and the Erotic Tyrant of Republic IXIn Jeremy J. Mhire & Bryan-Paul Frost (eds.), The Political Theory of Aristophanes: Explorations in Poetic Wisdom, Suny Press. pp. 275-302. 2014.
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65Human, All Too Human and the Socrates Who Plays MusicInternational Studies in Philosophy 36 (3): 171-182. 2004.
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9Nietzsche and the Philosophy of Pessimism: A Study of Nietzsche's Relation to the Pessimistic Tradition: Schopenhauer, Hartmann, LeopardiJournal of Nietzsche Studies 36 (1): 195-198. 2008.
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9Reflections on Lydia Amir’s The Legacy of Nietzsche’s Philosophy of LaughterThe Philosophy of Humor Yearbook 3 (1): 317-324. 2022.
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11Nietzsche’s Naturalized AestheticismProceedings of the XXIII World Congress of Philosophy 1 203-208. 2018.In recent years, a divide has emerged in Anglo-American scholarship between Alexander Nehamas’ reading of Nietzsche as an aestheticist who eschews the dogmatism implicit in the scientific project and Brian Leiter’s reading of Nietzsche as a hardnosed naturalist whose project is continuous with work in the natural sciences. In this paper, I argue that this divide is a false one. This is because Nietzsche thinks that a certain worldview, which he associates with the philosophy of Heraclitus, is co…Read more
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10Conflict and Contest in Nietzsche's Philosophy ed. by Herman Siemens and James PearsonJournal of the History of Philosophy 58 (3): 625-626. 2020.This is an important volume on a topic that has gained increasing traction in recent Nietzsche scholarship. In it, fourteen authors—trained philosophers and Germanists—discuss the related themes of contest, conflict, war, and the Greek agon in Nietzsche's works. Although the quality of the contributions varies, there are enough substantive essays in the volume to ensure that it will be essential reading for subsequent studies on the subject.In the introduction, the editors claim that although Ni…Read more
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16Nietzsche's The Gay Science: An Introduction by Michael UreJournal of Nietzsche Studies 51 (1): 120-125. 2020.Michael Ure’s introduction to Friedrich Nietzsche’s The Gay Science is a welcome contribution to the secondary literature. He provides a clear and coherent account of this complex text and situates his interpretation within Nietzsche’s larger oeuvre and philosophical project. Ure advances an original thesis—GS is Nietzsche’s attempt to revive an ancient understanding of philosophy as a way of life—that will be of interest to scholars more generally, and yet he still succeeds in introducing the t…Read more
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31The Three Metamorphoses of Nietzsche’s Free SpiritInternational Studies in Philosophy 38 (3): 49-63. 2006.
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Nietzsche's Free Spirit Works: A Dialectical ReadingCambridge University Press. 2019.Between 1878 and 1882, Nietzsche published what he called 'the free spirit works': Human, All Too Human; Assorted Opinions and Maxims; The Wanderer and His Shadow; Daybreak; and The Gay Science. Often approached as a mere assemblage of loosely connected aphorisms, these works are here reinterpreted as a coherent narrative of the steps Nietzsche takes in educating himself toward freedom that that executes a dialectic between scientific truth-seeking and artistic life-affirmation. Matthew Meyer's …Read more
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20Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil: A Reader's Guide (review)Journal of Nietzsche Studies 45 (2): 210-213. 2014.
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Die drei Verwandlungen der Aufklärung von Menschliches, Allzumenschliches bis zur Fröhlichen WissenschaftIn Renate Reschke (ed.), Nietzsche - Radikalaufklärer Oder Radikaler Gegenaufklärer?: Internationale Tagung der Nietzsche-Gesellschaft in Zusammenarbeit Mit der Kant-Forschungsstelle Mainz Und der Stiftung Weimarer Klassik Und Kunstsammlungen Vom 15.-17. Mai 2003 in Weimar, Akademie Verlag. pp. 239-246. 2004.
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28Nietzsche's "Genealogy of Morality" : OwenDavid,1964-Nietzsche's Genealogy of morality (review)Journal of Nietzsche Studies 38 (1): 88-89. 2009.
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9“Der Faule Fleck des Kantischen Kriticismus”: Erscheinung und Ding an sich bei Nietzsche (review)Journal of Nietzsche Studies 46 (1): 143-145. 2015.
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23The comic nature of Ecce HomoJournal of Nietzsche Studies 43 (1): 32-43. 2012.This article argues that Nietzsche's 1888 writings should be understood as a Dionysian comedy that parallels important formal structures of Aristophanes' early plays. Whereas works such as The Twilight of the Idols and The Case of Wagner contain features that resemble the agonal elements of Dionysian comedy, Ecce Homo should be understood as a comic parabasis of self-definition.
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8Nietzsche and the Ancient Skeptical Tradition (review)Journal of Nietzsche Studies 43 (1): 144-147. 2012.
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24Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil: A Reader's Guide by Christa Davis Acampora and Keith Ansell Pearson (review)Journal of Nietzsche Studies 45 (2): 210-213. 2014.For many years, Anglo-American scholars paid scant attention to Nietzsche’s published works as integral wholes. Explicitly or implicitly, scholars agreed with Arthur Danto that Nietzsche’s texts had little order and coherence and so the interpreter’s task was to systematize Nietzsche’s philosophy for him by assembling ideas found throughout his corpus.1 Recently, however, there has been a significant increase in scholarship focused on Nietzsche’s published works. Not only have a number of readin…Read more
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28Review of Monika M. Langer, Nietzsche's Gay Science: Dancing Coherence (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2011 (2). 2011.
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39Nietzsche and the Philosophy of Pessimism: A Study of Nietzsche's Relation to the Pessimistic Tradition: Schopenhauer, Hartmann, Leopardi (review)Journal of Nietzsche Studies 35 (1): 195-198. 2008.
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41Nietzsche's Naturalized AestheticismBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 23 (1): 138-160. 2015.This essay seeks to overcome the divide that has emerged in recent scholarship between Alexander Nehamas’s reading of Nietzsche as an aestheticist who eschews the dogmatism implicit in the scientific project and Brian Leiter's reading of Nietzsche as a hard-nosed naturalist whose project is continuous with the natural sciences. It is argued that Nietzsche turns to the natural sciences to justify a relationalist ontology that not only eliminates metaphysical concepts such as ‘being’ and ‘things-i…Read more
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36Nietzsche's Naturalism and the Falsification ThesisIn Helmut Heit, Günter Abel & Marco Brusotti (eds.), Nietzsches Wissenschaftsphilosophie: Hintergründe, Wirkungen und Aktualität, De Gruyter. pp. 59--135. 2011.
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18Nietzsche's Metaphilosophy : The Nature, Method, and Aims of Philosophy (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2019.Recent Anglophone scholarship has successfully shown that Nietzsche's thought makes important contributions to a wide range of contemporary philosophical debates. In so doing, however, scholarship has lost sight of another important feature of Nietzsche's project, namely his desire to challenge the very conception of philosophy that has been used to assess his merits as a philosopher. In other words, contemporary scholarship has overlooked Nietzsche's contributions to metaphilosophy, i.e. debate…Read more
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History of Western Philosophy |
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Pre-Socratic Philosophy |
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