Becoming Nietzsche : Early Reflections on Democritus, Schopenhauer, and Kant

"Becoming Nietzsche is an essential book for understanding Nietzsche's philosophical genealogy from 1866 to 1868, a phase that was punctuated by the influence of Friedrich Lange and a surprising rejection of Schopenhauer's theory of the will. During this period, Nietzsche focused on the scientific and artistic status of teleological judgments and their relevance for thinking about organic life and representation. Paul A. Swift connects Nietzsche's philology with the development of his theory of human understanding by providing scholarly analysis and short original translations of Nietzsche's early work on Democritus, Schopenhauer, and Kant. The first study of its kind suitable for Nietzsche specialists, historians of philosophy, and newcomers who have broad interests in the humanities, Becoming Nietzsche investigates how Democritus's rejection of teleology and Kant's analysis of reflective judgment directly influenced Nietzsche's aesthetic perspectivism in the 1860s."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved