Nietzsche's Philosophical Context

by Brobjer, Thomas H.

• ISBN13: 9780252032455
• ISBN10: 0252032454
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-03-18
• Publisher: Univ of Illinois Pr

Summary

Friedrich Nietzsche was immensely influential and, counter to most expectations, also very well read. An essential new reference tool for those interested in his thinking, Nietzschers"s Philosophical Context identifies the chronology and huge range of philosophical books that engaged him. Rigorously examining the scope of this reading, Thomas H. Brobjer consulted over two thousand volumes in Nietzschers"s personal library, as well as his book bills, library records, journals, letters, and publications. This meticulous investigation also considers many of the annotations in his books. In arguing that Nietzschers"s reading often constituted the starting point for, or counterpoint to, much of his own thinking and writing, Brobjerrs"s study provides scholars with fresh insight into how Nietzsche worked and thought; to which questions and thinkers he responded; and by which of them he was influenced. The result is a new and much more contextual understanding of Nietzsche's life and thinking.

Author Biography

Thomas H. Brobjer is an associate professor in the department of the history of science and ideas at Uppsala University, Sweden, and the author of Nietzsche’s Ethics of Character: A Study of Nietzsche’s Ethics and Its Place in the History of Moral Thinking.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Notes on References	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xv
Introduction	p. 1
Nietzsche As Reader	p. 6
The Major Philosophical Influences on Nietzsche's Thinking	p. 22
The Young Nietzsche: 1844-69	p. 43
The Early Nietzsche: 1869-74	p. 51
The Middle Nietzsche: 1875-82	p. 61
The Late Nietzsche: 1883-89	p. 90
Epilogue	p. 105
Notes	p. 111
Chronological Listing of Nietzsche's Philosophical Reading	p. 185
Philosophical Titles in Nietzsche's Library: Unknown If and When Read	p. 237
Alphabetical Listing of Nietzsche's Philosophical Reading	p. 243
Index	p. 259
Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved.