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Nietzsche on the Decadence and Flourishing of Culture by Andrew Huddleston, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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Nietzsche on the Decadence and Flourishing of Culture by Andrew Huddleston, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters
Nietzsche on the Decadence and Flourishing of Culture by Andrew Huddleston, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

From Andrew Huddleston

Nietzsche on the Decadence and Flourishing of Culture by Andrew Huddleston, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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In Nietzsche's first bookThe Birth of Tragedy (1872), cultural renewal is paramount among his concerns. In the person of Richard Wagner, Nietzsche saw someone who might bring together a fragmented and directionless modern society through the creation of tragic festival that, through itsmythic content, would allegedly give renewed meaning and purpose to human life. The standard story about Nietzsche's philosophical development is that he becomes disillusioned with this project and his mature philosophy undergoes a radical shift. Instead of reposing his hopes in a broader culture, he comes to occupy himself instead with the fate of a few great individuals, or, at the extreme, perhaps mainly with his own quasi-artistic self-cultivation. On these readings, to the extent that he remains concerned with culture at all, it is only as something whose noxious influence threatens thiscadre of elite individuals. Nietzsche on the Decadence and Flourishing of Culture questions this individualist reading that has become prevalent, and develops an alternative interpretation of Nietzsche as a more social thinker who sees collective cultural achievements as no less important. Greatindividuals are not all that matter. Andrew Huddleston uses Nietzsche's perfectionistic ideal of a flourishing culture and his diagnostics of cultural malaise as a point of departure for reconsidering many of the central themes in Nietzsche's ethics and social philosophy, as well as forunderstanding the interconnections with the form of cultural criticism that was part and parcel of his distinctive philosophical enterprise. | Nietzsche on the Decadence and Flourishing of Culture by Andrew Huddleston, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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