Nietzsche Apostle by Peter Sloterdijk (English) Paperback Book

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Peter Sloterdijk's essay on Friedrich Nietzsche and the benefits and dangers of narcissistic jubilation.

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Peter Sloterdijk's essay on Friedrich Nietzsche and the benefits and dangers of narcissistic jubilation. For Peter Sloterdijk, Friedrich Nietzsche represents nothing short of a "catastrophe in the history of language"-a new evangelist for a linguistics of narcissistic jubilation. Nietzsche offered a philosophical declaration of independence from humility, a meeting-point of sobriety and megalomania that for Sloterdijk has come to define the very project of philosophy.Yet for all the significance of this language-event named Nietzsche, Nietzsche's contributions have too often been elided and the contradictions at the root of his philosophy too often edited out. As Sloterdijk observes, "Never has an author so insisted on distinction and yet attracted such vulgarity." Nietzsche Apostle, drawn from a speech Sloterdijk gave in 2000 on the hundredth anniversary of Nietzsche's death, looks at the ways in which Nietzsche has been branded over the years through selective compilation, and at the ways in which Nietzsche turned himself into a brand-a brand announced by his proclaimed "fifth Gospel," Thus Spoke Zarathustra. For Sloterdijk, the focus should not be on the figure of Zarathustra or on the "will to power" often used as a kind of philosophical shorthand to sum up Nietzsche's work, but on Zarathustra's act of "speaking" itself. Nietzsche Apostle offers a brief history of self-praise and self-affirmation, an examination of the evolution of boasting (both by God and by man), and a very original approach to Nietzsche, philosophy's first designer brand of individualism.

Author Biography

Peter Sloterdijk (b. 1947) is one of the best known and widely read German intellectuals writing today. His 1983 publication of Critique of Cynical Reason (published in English in 1988) became the best-selling German book of philosophy since World War II. He became president of the State Academy of Design at the Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe in 2001. He has been cohost of a discussion program, Das Philosophische Quartett (Philosophical Quartet) on German television since 2002.

Details ISBN1584350997 Author Steve Corcoran Short Title NIETZSCHE APOSTLE Language English Translator Steve Corcoran ISBN-10 1584350997 ISBN-13 9781584350996 Media Book Format Paperback Series Number 16 Year 2013 Imprint Semiotext Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States Translated from German DEWEY 193 Birth 1947 Pages 88 Audience Age 18 Affiliation Staatliche Hochschule fuer Gestaltung Karlsruhe Publication Date 2013-11-15 UK Release Date 2013-11-15 AU Release Date 2013-11-15 NZ Release Date 2013-11-15 US Release Date 2013-11-15 Publisher Autonomedia Series Semiotext(e) / Intervention Series Audience Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly We've got this

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