Nietzsche’s Aphoristic Challenge / / Joel Westerdale.

The “aphoristic form causes difficulty,” Nietzsche argued in 1887, for “today this form is not taken seriously enough.” Nietzsche’s Aphoristic Challenge addresses this continued neglect by examining the role of the aphorism in Nietzsche’s writings, the generic traditions in which he writes, the moti...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2013]
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Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Monographien und Texte zur Nietzsche-Forschung , 64
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Physical Description:1 online resource (177 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • List of Abbreviations and Sources
  • Timeline of Key Publications Discussed and their Publishers
  • Introduction. The Challenge
  • Part One. Nietzsche and the German Aphoristic Tradition
  • Chapter One. “They’re aphorisms!”
  • Chapter Two. Aphoristic Pluralism
  • Part Two. The Turn to the Aphorism
  • Chapter Three. The Aphoristic Option
  • Chapter Four. An Anarchy of Atoms
  • Part Three. Re-Reading the Aphorism
  • Chapter Five. An Art of Exegesis
  • Chapter Six. The Nietzsche Function
  • Part Four. The Aphoristic Paradigm
  • Chapter Seven. Excess and Ephexis
  • Bibliography
  • Index