Philosophy of Nietzsche - Lectures, Vol. 18
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A01=Reiner Schurmann
Author_Michael Heitz
Author_Reiner Schurmann
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- ISBN 9783035800548
- Weight: 666g
- Dimensions: 150 x 250mm
- Publication Date: 15 Jun 2018
- Publisher: Diaphanes AG
- Publication City/Country: CH
- Product Form: Paperback
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Nietzsche praised Kant for having "annihilated Socratism," for exhibiting all ideals as essentially unattainable, and for having exposed himself to the despair of truth--all essential traits Nietzsche claimed for his own thinking. At the same time, the existentialist philosopher remained highly critical of Kant. This volume of Reiner Schurmann's lectures unpacks Nietzsche's ambivalence towards Kant, in particular positioning Nietzsche's claim to have brought an end to German idealism against the backdrop of the Kantian transcendental-critical tradition. Rather than simply compare the two philosophers, Schurmann's lectures help us to understand the consequences Nietzsche derived from Kantian concepts, as well as the wider horizon within which Nietzsche's ideas arose and can best be shown to apply. According to Schurmann's trenchant reading: if Nietzsche was indeed "fatal" to Western philosophy, as he claimed, he was so in large part because of the Kantian transcendental thinking from which he inherited the very elements and tools of his criticism.
Reiner Schurmann (1941--93) was a German philosopher who immigrated to the United States in the 1970s, where he was professor and director of the Department of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York. He is the author of three books on philosophy: Heidegger on Being and Acting, Wandering Joy, and Broken Hegemonies. Michael Heitz is the publisher of Diaphanes and the editor of Diaphanes magazine, based in Zurich and Berlin.
