{"product_id":"unmodern-observations-unzeitgemasse-betrachtungen","title":"Unmodern Observations (Unzeitgemässe Betrachtungen)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis translation of Nietzsche’s early \u003ci\u003eUnzeitgemässe Betrachtungen\u003c\/i\u003e consists of four long essays and notes for a fifth.  Nietzsche planned these works as part of an extremely ambitious critique of German culture.  Although the project was never completed, the essays thematically linked and should be considered as a whole.  This book, which presents these important works together in English for the first time, unifies the essays, provides introductions and annotations to each, and translates them in a way that does justice to the brilliance and versatility of Nietzsche’s style.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe dominant idea of Nietzsche’s project is the regeneration of culture through a radical reshaping of modern educational institutions.  Nietzsche believed that philosophy, the arts, and the ennobling study of antiquity had all been corrupted by systematic miseducation, the work of so-called educators, who, as culture-philistines, had disgraced the highest of vocations.  In response to this fragmented modern world, Nietasche argues for the creation of a”manworthy” culture with a single uniftying style—a style that integrated theology, philosophy, education, classical scholarship, journalism, and art in a seamless, dynamic whole.  This style, Nietzsche contends, can best be realized by heeding the great creative examples of the pre-Socratic philosophers, Schopenhauer, and Wagner, and by reforming education, above all the study of history and the archaic culture of Greece, so that it serves, rather than obstructs, the needs of human life.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe essays include \u003ci\u003eDavid Strauss: Writer and Confessor\u003c\/i\u003e, introduced and translated by Herbert Golder; \u003ci\u003eHistory in the Service and Disservice of Life\u003c\/i\u003e, introduced by Werner Dannhauser and translated by Gary Brown; \u003ci\u003eSchopenhauer as Educator\u003c\/i\u003e, introduced by Richard Schacht and translated by William Arrowsmith; \u003ci\u003eRichard Wagner in Bayreuth,\u003c\/i\u003e introduced and translated by Gary Brown; and \u003ci\u003eWe Classicists\u003c\/i\u003e, introduced and translated by William Arrowsmith.   \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Yale University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Product","offer_id":54221111525720,"sku":"9780300180190","price":34.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780300180190__67654bee6401b.jpg?v=1741159198","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/unmodern-observations-unzeitgemasse-betrachtungen","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}