Understanding Nietzscheanism (Understanding Movements in Modern Thought) - Hardcover

Woodward, Ashley

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1844652920 ISBN 13: 9781844652921

Publisher: Routledge, 2011

Synopsis

Nietzsche's critiques of traditional modes of thinking, valuing and living, as well as his radical proposals for new alternatives, have been vastly influential in a wide variety of areas, such that an understanding of his philosophy and its influence is important for grasping many aspects of contemporary thought and culture. However Nietzsche's thought is complex and elusive, and has been interpreted in many ways. Moreover, he has influenced starkly contrasting movements and schools of thought, from atheism to theology, from existentialism to poststructuralism, and from Nazism to feminism. This book charts Nietzsche's influence, both historically and thematically, across a variety of these contrasting disciplines and schools of interpretation. It provides both an accessible introduction to Nietzsche's thought and its impact and an overview of contemporary approaches to Nietzsche.

About this title

About the Author

Ashley Woodward lectures in philosophy at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

Review

"A superb achievement. The author's coverage of the phenomenon of Nietzscheanism is admirably comprehensive and hugely instructive. Students and teachers alike will find lucid and informative accounts of the nature and impact of Nietzsche's ideas on seminal movements in twentieth-century thought such as existentialism, poststructuralism and naturalism, as well as helpful treatments of important topics such as Nietzsche and posthumanism and Nietzsche and politics." Keith Ansell-Pearson, University of Warwick

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1844652920
• ISBN 13: 9781844652921
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 280