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In this provocative work, Thomas Jovanovski presents a contrasting interpretation to the postmodernist and feminist reading of Nietzsche. As Jovanovski maintains, Nietzsche's written thought is above all a sustained endeavor aimed at negating and superseding the (primarily) Socratic principles of Western ontology with a new table of aesthetic ethics - ethics that originate from the Dionysian insight of Aeschylean tragedy. Just as the Platonic Socrates perceived a pressing need for, and succeeded in establishing, a new world-historical ethic and aesthetic direction grounded in reason, science, and optimism, so does Nietzsche regard the rebirth of an old tragic mythos as the vehicle toward a cultural, political, and religious metamorphosis of the West. However, Jovanovski contends that Nietzsche does not advocate such a radical social turning as an end in itself, but as only the most consequential prerequisite to realizing the culminating object of his «historical philosophizing» - the phenomenal appearance of the Übermensch.

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Book category Knihy po anglicky Humanities Philosophy History of Western philosophy

• Full title: Aesthetic Transformations
• Author: Thomas Jovanovski
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 155
• EAN: 9780820420028
• ISBN: 9780820420028
• ID: 01034715
• Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
• Weight: 498 g
• Dimensions: 158 × 236 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 04. October 2007

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