Alexander Nehamas
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 275084 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Alexander Nehamas |
| NOMBRES | Alexander |
| APELLIDO | Nehamas |
| FIRMA | NEHAMAS A |
| AFILIACIONES | Princeton University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6051-2903 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 58 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 78 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 56 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1973 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2019 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Nietzsche, Psychology, and First Philosophy by Robert B. Pippin
Research Article| April 01 2019 Nietzsche, Psychology, and First Philosophy by Robert B. Pippin Pippin, Robert B., Nietzsche, Psychology, and First Philosophy (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010), 152 pp. Alexander Nehamas Alexander Nehamas Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2019) 25 (1-3): 419–420. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-7312273 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn …
Nietzsche, intention, action
Nietzsche sometimes writes as if we are not in control—at least not in conscious control—of our actions. He seems to suggest that what we actually do is independent of our intentions. It turns out, though, that his understanding of both intention and action differs radically from most contemporary treatments of the issue. In particular, he denies that our actions are caused by their intentions, whose role is hermeneutical in a sense that this ess…
Can a Dog Really Be a Man’s Best Friend
This essay is an exchange between friends and scholars Thomas Laqueur and Alexander Nehamas. Laqueur offers a number of possible answers to the question “Why is a dog a man’s best friend?” as he explicates and analyzes a varied historical record of archaeological evidence, philosophy, art, and literature. Laqueur builds on Aristotle’s conception of friendship as he explores what types of friendships we humans have with dogs and how such relations…
Perspectivism and Falsification
In this reply, I defend my views on Nietzsche's “falsification thesis” and his perspectivism against Maudemarie Clark's recent criticisms, which appeared in The Journal of Nietzsche Studies 49.1. I begin by amplifying my interpretation of Gay Science 110 and 111, which, I argue, show that the falsification thesis is absent from The Gay Science. I then turn to perspectivism and argue that, contrary to Clark's claims, perspectivism never involves t…
Parmenidean Being/Heraclitean Fire
When the rest of the philosophic folk rejected the testimony of the senses because they showed multiplicity and change, [Heraclitus] rejected their testimony because they showed things as if they had permanence and unity. Heraclitus too did the senses an injustice. They lie neither in the way the Eleatics believed, nor as he believed – they do not lie at all.
Nietzsche on Truth and the Value of Falsehood
Nietzsche often gives the impression that all human beliefs are false. Some scholars, like Maudemarie Clark, believe that such a “falsification thesis” is unacceptable and try to limit Nietzsche's commitment to it, claiming that he abandons it in his very last works. Others, like Lanier Anderson and Nadeem Hussain, take it in ways that make it true and locate it in all. I argue that the view that is common to both approaches—that Nietzsche held t…
Aristotle's "Rhetoric"
In the field of philosophy, Plato's view of rhetoric as a potentially treacherous craft has long overshadowed Aristotle's view, which focuses on rhetoric as an independent discipline that relates in complex ways to dialectic and logic and to ethics and moral psychology. This volume, composed of essays by international philosophers and classicists, provides an extensive examination of Aristotle's Rhetoric and its subject matter. One aim is to loca…
Aristotle's Rhetoric
Nietzsche, Drives, Selves, and Leonard Bernstein
In response to criticisms advanced by Christopher Janaway and Robert Pippin, I offer a rudimentary account of Nietzsche's “drives.” They are not mysterious: they stand for the different sets of motives, often in conflict, with which we are all faced. The strongest among them speak with the voice of the subject and try to get the rest to follow their lead. Such “subjugation,” whether within one or between different persons (“the will to power”), o…
Nietzsche
Plato and the Mass Media
Book X of the Republic contains a scathing attack on poetry which is still, by turns, both incomprehensible and disturbing.1 Plato's banishment of the poets from his model city has always been a cause of interpretative difficulties and philosophical embarrassments, even for some of his greatest admirers. But I am now beginning to believe that the difficulties are not real and that the embarrassments are only apparent, and my purpose in what follo…
Introductions to Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) is one of the most important philosophers of the last two hundred years, whose writings, both published and unpublished, have had a formative influence on virtually all aspects of modern culture. This volume offers introductory essays on all of Nietzsche's completed works and also his unpublished notebooks. The essays address such topics as his criticism of morality and Christianity, his doctrines of the will to po…
Nietzsche
This chapter considers three topics that preoccupied Friedrich Nietzsche during the years when he was thinking about, and writing, The Birth of Tragedy and, in one way or another, during most of the rest of the 1870s: the philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer, the music of Richard Wagner, and the importance of ancient Greek art and civilisation for a renaissance of German culture. The chapter discusses a few specific issues relevant both to Nietzsche…
Nietzsche, Psychology, and First Philosophy
Book Review| April 01 2012 Nietzsche, Psychology, and First Philosophy Pippin, Robert B., Nietzsche, Psychology, and First Philosophy (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010), 152 pp. Alexander Nehamas Alexander Nehamas Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2012) 18 (2): 361–362. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-1545040 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search S…
Reply to Korsmeyer and Gaut
Journal Article Reply to Korsmeyer and Gaut Get access Alexander Nehamas Alexander Nehamas Princeton University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 50, Issue 2, April 2010, Pages 205–207, https://doi.org/10.1093/aesthj/ayq004 Published: 01 April 2010
Of Poets and Thinkers
Fateful Beauty
Book Review| April 01 2009 Fateful Beauty: Aesthetic Environments, Juvenile Development, and Literature, 1860-1960 Douglas Mao, Fateful Beauty: Aesthetic Environments, Juvenile Development, and Literature, 1860-1960 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008), 332 pp. Alexander Nehamas Alexander Nehamas Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2009) 15 (2): 216. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2008-059 C…
Beauty of Body, Nobility of Soul
Only in the Contemplation of Beauty Is Human Life Worth Living’ Plato, Symposium 211d
A Passion for Philosophy
The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters
Research Article| May 01 2001 "The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters" Alexander Nehamas Alexander Nehamas Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Representations (2001) 74 (1): 37–54. https://doi.org/10.1525/rep.2001.74.1.37 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Cit…
The place of beauty and the role of value in the world of art
The Art of Living
Preface Introduction PART ONE: SILENCE 1.Platonic Irony: Author and Audience 2.Socratic Irony: Character and Interlocutors 3.Socratic Irony: Character and Author PART TWO: VOICES 4.A Face for Socrates' Reason: Montaigne's Of physiognomy 5.A Reason for Socrates' Face: Nietzsche on The problem of Socrates 6.A Fate for Socrates' Reason: Foucault on the Care of the Self Notes Bibliography Index
The Art of Living
Nietzsche and “Hitler”
Nietzsche
The Postulated Author
Only in the Contemplation of Beauty Is Human Life Worth Living’ Plato, Symposium 211d
Nietzsche on Truth and the Value of Falsehood
Nietzsche often gives the impression that all human beliefs are false. Some scholars, like Maudemarie Clark, believe that such a “falsification thesis” is unacceptable and try to limit Nietzsche's commitment to it, claiming that he abandons it in his very last works. Others, like Lanier Anderson and Nadeem Hussain, take it in ways that make it true and locate it in all. I argue that the view that is common to both approaches—that Nietzsche held t…
The Eternal Recurrence
The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters
Research Article| May 01 2001 "The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters" Alexander Nehamas Alexander Nehamas Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Representations (2001) 74 (1): 37–54. https://doi.org/10.1525/rep.2001.74.1.37 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Cit…
How One Becomes What One Is
Being and becoming, according to Nietzsche, are not at all related as we commonly suppose. Becoming, he writes, must be explained without recourse to final intentions.... Becoming does not aim at a final state, does not flow into 'being'. 'One of his many criticisms of philosophers (humans have always been philosophers) is that they have turned away from what changes and have only tried to understand what is: But since nothing is, all that was le…
Nietzsche, Drives, Selves, and Leonard Bernstein
In response to criticisms advanced by Christopher Janaway and Robert Pippin, I offer a rudimentary account of Nietzsche's “drives.” They are not mysterious: they stand for the different sets of motives, often in conflict, with which we are all faced. The strongest among them speak with the voice of the subject and try to get the rest to follow their lead. Such “subjugation,” whether within one or between different persons (“the will to power”), o…
From the Many to the One
Plato
Studies in Presocratic Philosophy. Volume II
The Eternal Recurrence
The Material Word
The Postulated Author
Plato's Poetics
Can We Ever Quite Change the Subject
Memory, Pleasure and Poetry
Memory, Pleasure and Poetry: The Grammar of the Self in the Writing of Cavafy* Alexander Nehamas A striking fact about Cavafy's "Walls" (1896/ZcW)1 is the extent to which this short, seemingly insignificant poem continues to fascinate, and to be discussed by, critics who judge it negatively: WALLS With no consideration, no pity, no shame, they've built walls around me, thick and high. And now I sit here feeling hopeless. I can't think of anything…
How One Becomes What One Is
Being and becoming, according to Nietzsche, are not at all related as we commonly suppose. Becoming, he writes, must be explained without recourse to final intentions.... Becoming does not aim at a final state, does not flow into 'being'. 'One of his many criticisms of philosophers (humans have always been philosophers) is that they have turned away from what changes and have only tried to understand what is: But since nothing is, all that was le…
Episteme and Logos in Plato’s Later Thought
"What is knowledge?" Plato does try to answer this question, asked at the beginning of the Theaetetus, but the answer is not in the dialogue itself, either negatively (as Cornford argued) or positively (as Fine suggested). His answer is partially given in the Sophist and Statesman: the project of definition has been shown to involve the mastery of the whole field to which the object of definition belongs, and hence a science of the field in quest…
Nietzsche & Philosophy
Nietzsche, life as literature
Convergence and Methodology in Science and Criticism
at no point is there any direct learning of literature itself. Physics is an organized body of knowledge about nature, and a student of it says that he is learning physics, not nature. Art, like nature, has to be distinguished from the systematic study of it, which is criticism.... Literature is not a subject of study, but an object of study: the fact that it consists of words ... makes us confuse it with the talking verbal disciplines. The libra…
Nietzsche
Image and Reality in Plato's Metaphysics
Nietzsche
Plato and the Mass Media
Book X of the Republic contains a scathing attack on poetry which is still, by turns, both incomprehensible and disturbing.1 Plato’s banishment of the poets from his model city has always been a cause of interpretative difficulties and philosophical embarrassments, even for some of his greatest admirers. But I am now beginning to believe that the difficulties are not real and that the embarrassments are only apparent, and my purpose in what follo…
The Philosophical Disenfranchisement of Art.
I. The Philosophical Disenfranchisement of Art II. The Appreciation and Interpretation of Works of Art III. Deep Interpretation IV. Language, Art, Culture, Text V. The End of Art VI. Art and Disturbation VII. Philosophy as/and/of Literature VIII. Philosophizing Literature IX. Art, Evolution, and the Consciousness of History
Nietzsche; Life as Literature
Nietzsche
Introduction Part I. The World 1. The Most Multifarious Art of Style 2. Untruth as a Condition of Life 3. A Thing Is the Sum of Its Effects 4. Nature against Something That Is Also Nature Part II. The Self 5. This Life--Your Eternal Life 6. How One Becomes What One Is 7. Beyond Good and Evil A Note on Texts and Translations Notes Index
Nietzsche
Who Are “The Philosophers of the Future”?
Though it is one of Nietzsche’s most popular and most widely read books, Beyond Good and Evil remains, in structure and content (if we can provisionally distinguish between them), a work of dazzling obscurity. Two reasons make this oxymoron appropriate. In a very elementary sense, we still do not know how to read this book. We simply do not understand its structure, its narrative line. Indeed, we do not even know whether it has any narrative line…
Serious Watching
Research Article| January 01 1990 Serious Watching Alexander Nehamas Alexander Nehamas Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1990) 89 (1): 157–180. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-89-1-157 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Alexander Nehamas; Serious Watching. South Atlantic Quarterly 1 January 1990; 89 (1): 157–180. doi: https://doi.org…
Derrida
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