Nietzsche's Enlightenment: The Free-Spirit Trilogy of the Middle Period

Nietzsche's Enlightenment: The Free-Spirit Trilogy of the Middle Period
Paul Franco
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21 Dec 2020 US
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9780226709062
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While much attention has been lavished on Friedrich Nietzsche's earlier and later works, those of his so-called middle period have been generally neglected, perhaps because of their aphoristic style or perhaps because they are perceived to be inconsistent with the rest of his thought. With "Nietzsche's Enlightenment", Paul Franco gives this crucial section of Nietzsche's oeuvre its due, offering a thoughtful analysis of the three works that make up the philosopher's middle period: "Human, All too Human"; "Daybreak"; and, "The Gay Science". It is Nietzsche himself who suggests that these works are connected, saying that their "common goal is to erect a new image and ideal of the free spirit". Franco argues that in their more favorable attitude toward reason, science, and the Enlightenment, these works mark a sharp departure from Nietzsche's earlier, more romantic writings, and differ in important ways from his later, more prophetic writings, beginning with "Thus Spoke Zarathustra".
"Post-structuralists have long mined the works of Nietzsche's middle period in their efforts to employ Nietzsche as an advocate of their deconstructionist enterprise. Paul Franco shows us in a wonderful fashion why their reading is mistaken and in doing so reveals a Nietzsche who is much more friendly to the Enlightenment and the humanist tradition than is generally imagined. It is the best book I know of on this period of Nietzsche's thought." (Michael Allen Gillespie, Duke University)"
Paul Franco is professor of government at Bowdoin College and the author of Michael Oakeshott: An Introduction, Hegel's Philosophy of Freedom, and The Political Philosophy of Michael Oakeshott.
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ISBN-13: 9780226709062
Published: 21 Dec 2020
Published In: United States
Imprint: University of Chicago Press
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Format: Paperback
Pages: 280

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