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Die Funken des freien Geistes: Neuere Aufsätze zu Nietzsches Philosophie der Zukunft by Volker Gerhardt (review)

Die Funken des freien Geistes: Neuere Aufsätze zu Nietzsches Philosophie der Zukunft by Volker... Volker Gerhardt, Die Funken des freien Geistes: Neuere Aufsätze zu Nietzsches Philosophie der Zukunft, edited by Jan-Christoph Heilinger and Nikolaos Loukidelis. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2011. ix + 363 pp. ISBN: 978-3-11-024662-9. Cloth, 74.95 / $105.00. This volume presents a collection of papers on Nietzsche written by Volker Gerhardt over the past twenty-five years. The trait d'union among them is the idea that, more than a hundred years after Nietzsche's death, the sparks of his thought--the Funken of Gerhardt's title--can still ignite fires in contemporary readers, even to the extent that for no other nineteenth-century thinker is the definition of "arsonist" more appropriate. The range of subjects that Gerhardt tackles is wide: from the relations among the body, the self, and the "I" in Zarathustra's speech, "On the Despisers of the Body" to Nietzsche's perspectivism, immoralism, and moral individualism; and from Nietzsche's and Kant's conceptions of "life" to Nietzsche's conception of society and politics. With rare insight and critical spirit, Gerhardt tests Nietzsche's philosophy, showing its flaws and contradictions, while at the same time highlighting its strengths and intuitions. To my mind, there are three main topics in the collection that will particularly interest scholars familiar with contemporary Anglo-American http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Journal of Nietzsche Studies Penn State University Press

Die Funken des freien Geistes: Neuere Aufsätze zu Nietzsches Philosophie der Zukunft by Volker Gerhardt (review)

Stellino, Paolo
The Journal of Nietzsche Studies , Volume 45 (3) – Nov 26, 2014
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Volker Gerhardt, Die Funken des freien Geistes: Neuere Aufsätze zu Nietzsches Philosophie der Zukunft, edited by Jan-Christoph Heilinger and Nikolaos Loukidelis. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2011. ix + 363 pp. ISBN: 978-3-11-024662-9. Cloth, 74.95 / $105.00. This volume presents a collection of papers on Nietzsche written by Volker Gerhardt over the past twenty-five years. The trait d'union among them is the idea that, more than a hundred years after Nietzsche's death, the sparks of his thought--the Funken of Gerhardt's title--can still ignite fires in contemporary readers, even to the extent that for no other nineteenth-century thinker is the definition of "arsonist" more appropriate. The range of subjects that Gerhardt tackles is wide: from the relations among the body, the self, and the "I" in Zarathustra's speech, "On the Despisers of the Body" to Nietzsche's perspectivism, immoralism, and moral individualism; and from Nietzsche's and Kant's conceptions of "life" to Nietzsche's conception of society and politics. With rare insight and critical spirit, Gerhardt tests Nietzsche's philosophy, showing its flaws and contradictions, while at the same time highlighting its strengths and intuitions. To my mind, there are three main topics in the collection that will particularly interest scholars familiar with contemporary Anglo-American

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