Nietzsche's Earthbound Wisdom The Philosopher, the Poet, and the Sage
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Biografisk notat
Keith Ansell-Pearson is emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Warwick. He is the author and editor of several books on Nietzsche, including Nietzsche’s Search for Philosophy and The Nietzsche Reader.Nietzsche's Earthbound Wisdom The Philosopher, the Poet, and the Sage
“Ansell-Pearson is among the most renowned Nietzsche readers of our time. <i>Nietzsche’s Earthbound Wisdom</i> reflects a deep engagement with Nietzsche as a philosopher, sage, and poet that is inspiring, powerful, and beautifully written. A must-read!”
- Vanessa Lemm, University of Greenwich,
“A magisterial survey by a philosopher at the height of his powers. In elegantly relaxed prose, and with the intellectual freedom that is the fruit of maturity, Ansell-Pearson ranges over the vast landscape of Nietzsche’s thought, brilliantly drawing out its underlying unity and giving a fresh sense of its philosophical genius.”
- Simon May, King’s College London,
<p>“[Ansell Pearson] examines Nietzsche's work during his middle and late periods, with the aim of grasping his importance as a philosophical, heterodox thinker.”</p>
Choice
Today, Nietzsche is justly celebrated for his rich, philosophical naturalism, but Keith Ansell-Pearson warns that we must not overlook the visionary dimension of his thinking and his focus on the need to cultivate a new care of the self and care of life. In Nietzsche’s Earthbound Wisdom, Ansell-Pearson recovers Nietzsche’s love for a philosophy that guides us through our passions, one that opens us more fully to the possibilities of life and the joy of knowledge.
Ansell-Pearson offers close readings of Nietzsche’s texts in conversation with philosophical and literary figures including Augustine, Baudelaire, Carlyle, Dostoevsky, Emerson, Flaubert, Stendhal, and more. Throughout, Ansell-Pearson examines Nietzsche’s sophisticated critique of literary naturalism and his alternative conception of the poet as a seer who has a deep longing for a new earth.
Introduction
Philosophically Heterodox
System and Aphorism
Naturalisms
Wisdom as a Hiding Place
Itinerary
Chapter One. Books and Cheerfulness
Honest Books
Cold Books and Cheerfulness
Nietzsche and Montaigne
Melancholy Authors and Cheerful Wisdom
“Cricket-Cheerfulness”
Cheerfulness and Hope
Chapter Two. Honesty and the Passion of Knowledge
Know Thyself?
The Youngest Virtue
The Passion of Knowledge
Chapter Three. The Philosopher as a Wanderer
Nietzsche and Philosophy
The Wisdom of the Sages
The Wanderer: Justice and Love
The Wanderer’s Shadow
In Praise of Solitude
A Third Eye and Perceiving Cosmically
Chapter Four. The Passions
Nietzsche and the Passions
On the Greeks and Christianity
On Stoicism
The Passions and Self-Cultivation
Virtue and the Passions
Chapter Five. The Poets
The Poet as Seer
Suspicions about the Poets
On Shakespeare and Corneille
Beautiful Human Beings: Nietzsche and Adalbert Stifter
New Dawns
Chapter Six. Only a Fool, Only a Poet: The Passion of Zarathustra
The Passion of Zarathustra
Zarathustra in Relation to Nietzsche’s Middle Writings
A Book for All and None
Nietzsche and Heraclitus
Power: An Open Secret
Zarathustra the Poet
Zarathustra the Fool
The Mask
Nietzsche and the Superhuman
Nietzsche and Dostoevsky
“Between Gilded Ice and Pure Blue Sky”
Chapter Seven. The Philosopher’s Vision
Introduction
The Problem with “Objectivity”: Sainte-Beuve and the Scholar
The Novel and “Objectivity”: Flaubert
Hashish and Satanism: Baudelaire and Wagnerism
The Observations of the Psychologist
The Philosopher as Legislator
Spiritual Caesarism
Coda: Umana commedia
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
“Ansell-Pearson is among the most renowned Nietzsche readers of our time. <i>Nietzsche’s Earthbound Wisdom</i> reflects a deep engagement with Nietzsche as a philosopher, sage, and poet that is inspiring, powerful, and beautifully written. A must-read!”
- Vanessa Lemm, University of Greenwich,
“A magisterial survey by a philosopher at the height of his powers. In elegantly relaxed prose, and with the intellectual freedom that is the fruit of maturity, Ansell-Pearson ranges over the vast landscape of Nietzsche’s thought, brilliantly drawing out its underlying unity and giving a fresh sense of its philosophical genius.”
- Simon May, King’s College London,
<p>“[Ansell Pearson] examines Nietzsche's work during his middle and late periods, with the aim of grasping his importance as a philosophical, heterodox thinker.”</p>
Choice
Today, Nietzsche is justly celebrated for his rich, philosophical naturalism, but Keith Ansell-Pearson warns that we must not overlook the visionary dimension of his thinking and his focus on the need to cultivate a new care of the self and care of life. In Nietzsche’s Earthbound Wisdom, Ansell-Pearson recovers Nietzsche’s love for a philosophy that guides us through our passions, one that opens us more fully to the possibilities of life and the joy of knowledge.
Ansell-Pearson offers close readings of Nietzsche’s texts in conversation with philosophical and literary figures including Augustine, Baudelaire, Carlyle, Dostoevsky, Emerson, Flaubert, Stendhal, and more. Throughout, Ansell-Pearson examines Nietzsche’s sophisticated critique of literary naturalism and his alternative conception of the poet as a seer who has a deep longing for a new earth.
Introduction
Philosophically Heterodox
System and Aphorism
Naturalisms
Wisdom as a Hiding Place
Itinerary
Chapter One. Books and Cheerfulness
Honest Books
Cold Books and Cheerfulness
Nietzsche and Montaigne
Melancholy Authors and Cheerful Wisdom
“Cricket-Cheerfulness”
Cheerfulness and Hope
Chapter Two. Honesty and the Passion of Knowledge
Know Thyself?
The Youngest Virtue
The Passion of Knowledge
Chapter Three. The Philosopher as a Wanderer
Nietzsche and Philosophy
The Wisdom of the Sages
The Wanderer: Justice and Love
The Wanderer’s Shadow
In Praise of Solitude
A Third Eye and Perceiving Cosmically
Chapter Four. The Passions
Nietzsche and the Passions
On the Greeks and Christianity
On Stoicism
The Passions and Self-Cultivation
Virtue and the Passions
Chapter Five. The Poets
The Poet as Seer
Suspicions about the Poets
On Shakespeare and Corneille
Beautiful Human Beings: Nietzsche and Adalbert Stifter
New Dawns
Chapter Six. Only a Fool, Only a Poet: The Passion of Zarathustra
The Passion of Zarathustra
Zarathustra in Relation to Nietzsche’s Middle Writings
A Book for All and None
Nietzsche and Heraclitus
Power: An Open Secret
Zarathustra the Poet
Zarathustra the Fool
The Mask
Nietzsche and the Superhuman
Nietzsche and Dostoevsky
“Between Gilded Ice and Pure Blue Sky”
Chapter Seven. The Philosopher’s Vision
Introduction
The Problem with “Objectivity”: Sainte-Beuve and the Scholar
The Novel and “Objectivity”: Flaubert
Hashish and Satanism: Baudelaire and Wagnerism
The Observations of the Psychologist
The Philosopher as Legislator
Spiritual Caesarism
Coda: Umana commedia
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index