Nietzsche

by Alexander Nehamas

NietzscheB the amazing works, written about Nietzsche, the most outstanding book b was born in Athens, the Greek philosopher, Spanish naturalized in the United States in 1964, is an authority on ancient philosophy and Nietzsche, Princeton Life as a Literature, written by Alexander Nehamas, a professor of university humanities, is a classic of Nietzsches research, which has been translated into many languages and is widely read. This was newly revised and published by Professor Jong Kap Kim, Konkuk University, who first introduced the translation into Korea in 1994. Alexander Nehamas finds a consistent context that penetrates Nietzsches diverse views as the best guide to understanding Nietzsche. It is Nietzsches understanding of the world as literary texts, humans as figures in his works, and science and knowledge as interpretations of his works. Nehamas clarifies the concept of textuality, giving unity to the text and its understanding. He concludes very convincingly that Nietzsches role as Socrates and at the same time as Plato by recreating himself as a character. Discussing and discerning the various and contradictory views of Nietzsches text and his ideas. Solving the problems of Nietzsches interpretation step by step, he deals with interesting problems of modern philosophy, such as moral relativism and scientific realism. This book, with its elegant insights and elegant writing style, will be of great help to all readers interested in philosophy and literature.

Paperback

Published April 20, 2013

About the author

Alexander Nehamas (Greek: Αλέξανδρος Νεχαμάς; born 1946) is Professor of philosophy and Edmund N. Carpenter, II Class of 1943 Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. He works on Greek philosophy, aesthetics, Nietzsche, Foucault, and literary theory.

He was born in Athens, Greece in 1946. In 1964, he enrolled to Swarthmore College. He graduated in 1967 and completed his doctorate on Predication in Plato's Phaedo under the direction of Gregory Vlastos at Princeton in 1971. He taught at the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Pennsylvania before joining the Princeton faculty in 1990.

His early work was on Platonic metaphysics and aesthetics as well as the philosophy of Socrates, but he gained a wider audience with his 1985 book Nietzsche: Life as Literature, which argued that Nietzsche thought of life and the world on the model of a literary text. Nehamas has said, "The virtues of life are comparable to the virtues of good writing—style, connectedness, grace, elegance—and also, we must not forget, sometimes getting it right." More recently, he has become well known for his view that philosophy should provide a form of life, as well as for his endorsement of the artistic value of television. In 2008, he delivered the Gifford Lectures at the University of Edinburgh.