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The Romance of Individualism in Emerson and Nietzsche
David Mikics
出版
Ohio University Press
, 2003
主題
Literary Criticism / American / General
Philosophy / General
Philosophy / History & Surveys / General
Philosophy / History & Surveys / Modern
Philosophy / Movements / General
Philosophy / Individual Philosophers
Social Science / Sociology / General
ISBN
0821414968
9780821414965
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=3fHWAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
The great American thinker Ralph Waldo Emerson and the influential German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, though writing in different eras and ultimately developing significantly different philosophies, both praised the individual's wish to be transformed, to be fully created for the first time. Emerson and Nietzsche challenge us to undertake the task of identity on our own, in order to see (in Nietzsche's phrase) “how one becomes what one is.”
David Mikics's
The Romance of Individualism in Emerson and Nietzsche
examines the argument, as well as the affinity, between these two philosophers. Nietzsche was an enthusiastic reader of Emerson and inherited from him an interest in provocation as a means of instruction, an understanding of the permanent importance of moods and transitory moments in our lives, and a sense of the revolutionary character of impulse. Both were deliberately outrageous thinkers, striving to shake us out of our complacency.
Rather than choosing between Emerson and Nietzsche, Professor Mikics attends to Nietzsche's struggle with Emerson's example and influence. Elegant in its delivery,
The Romance of Individualism in Emerson and Nietzsche
offers a significant commentary on the visions of several contemporary theorists whose interests intersect with those of Emerson and Nietzsche, especially Stanley Cavell, Jacques Lacan, Slavoj Zizek, and Harold Bloom.