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Nietzsche’s Culture War

The Unity of the Untimely Meditations

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  1. Shilo Brooks

    1. University of Colorado, Boulder, USA

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  • Provides the first comprehensive interpretation of Nietzsche’s Untimely Meditations
  • Challenges the view, predominant in Nietzsche scholarship today, that his early and late writings are disparate in concern and approach
  • Argues that the Untimely Meditations form a unified philosophic narrative that constitutes Nietzsche’s first attempt to diagnose and cure the spiritual ailments whose causes he traced to modern culture and science
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Recovering Political Philosophy (REPOPH)

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Introduction: Nietzsche Contra Bismarck—Culture War

    • Shilo Brooks
    Pages 1-24

  3. David Strauss the Confessor and the Writer

    • Shilo Brooks
    Pages 25-68

  4. The Use and Disadvantage of History for Life

    • Shilo Brooks
    Pages 69-125

  5. Schopenhauer as Educator

    • Shilo Brooks
    Pages 127-183

  6. Richard Wagner in Bayreuth

    • Shilo Brooks
    Pages 185-225

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 227-241
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This book is the first comprehensive interpretation of Nietzsche’s Untimely Meditations. It argues that the four Meditations—which Nietzsche said “deserve the greatest attention for my development”—are not separate pieces, but instead form a unified philosophic narrative that constitutes his first attempt to diagnose and cure the spiritual ailments whose causes he traced to modern culture and science. Taking Nietzsche’s commentary on the four essays in his autobiographical work Ecce Homo as its interpretive guide, this book also shows that the Untimely Meditations contain early expositions of concepts like the last man, the overman, the new philosopher, the creation of values, and the malleability of nature—all staples of his later philosophy. 

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“In his excellent book, Brooks persuasively argues that the Meditations are unified in advancing a ‘Culture War’ that Nietzsche wages against our modern scientific age. … as soon as anyone cracks open the Meditations—a first-time reader or scholar—she should have Brooks by her side.” (Jeffrey Church, The Review of Politics, Vol. 81 (2), Spring, 2019)​

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  • University of Colorado, Boulder, USA

    Shilo Brooks

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Shilo Brooks is Instructor at the Herbst Program of Humanities in Engineering at University of Colorado, USA

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