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This quantity collects a wide-ranging set of essays reading Friedrich Nietzsche's engagement with antiquity in all its features. It investigates Nietzsche's response and reaction to the idea that of "classicism," with specific connection with his paintings on Greek tradition as a philologist in Basel and later as a thinker of modernity, and to his reception of German classicism in all his texts. The e-book might be of curiosity to scholars of old background and classics, philosophy, comparative literature, and Germanistik. Taken jointly, those papers recommend that classicism is either a extra major, and a extra contested, proposal for Nietzsche than is usually discovered, and it demonstrates the necessity for a go back to a detailed realization to the intellectual-historical context when it comes to which Nietzsche observed himself working. An expertise of the wealthy number of educational backgrounds, methodologies, and methods of interpreting evinced in those chapters could be the single manner for the modern student to return to grips with what classicism intended for Nietzsche, and for that reason what Nietzsche ability for us this present day. The e-book is split into 5 sections -- The Classical Greeks; Pre-Socratics and Pythagoreans, Cynics and Stoics; Nietzsche and the Platonic culture; Contestations; and German Classicism -- and constitutes the 1st significant examine of Nietzsche and the classical culture in 1 / 4 of a century.

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In their later years the two men became acquainted and to some extent allied, despite their differences over Wagner’s Parsifal, though it was primarily after their deaths, and principally through the Bayreuth circle of Wagner’s hard-line successors and disciples that Gobineau’s theory of race and racial degeneration became 3 more widely known. Gobineau wrote the bulk of his works between 1849 and 1872, while serving as a diplomat. His best-known, or most notorious, work, the four-volume Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races (Essai sur l’inégalité des races humaines), appeared between 1853 and 1855, while Gobineau was evidently an under-employed First Secretary at the French Legation in Berne.

PORTER his cavalier manipulation of the evidence (while strictly playing by the rules that sanctioned this very manipulation)—including his skillful deployment of what he referred to as “the Wolfian heresy” (the analytic approach to Homer’s layered texts)—deserves to be recognized as a watershed of sorts in the history of classical scholarship, despite the stony silence his book received, and continues to receive, from professing classicists. The Authoress of the Odyssey is at the very least an extreme symptom of the age.

Marx and Antiquity, 151-64. 17 See Henry Staten, Nietzsche’s Voice (Ithaca and London: Cornell UP, 1990), 7785. 18 See Martin Bernal, Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilisation, vol. 1, The Fabrication of Ancient Greece, 1785-1985 (London: Free Association Books, 1987). 16 Breeding Greeks: Nietzsche, Gobineau, and Classical Theories of Race Nicholas Martin I N A SECTION of Daybreak (1881), entitled “Purification of Race,” Nietzsche writes: —There are probably no pure races, only races that have become pure, and these are very rare.

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