Robin Small
Biographic Data
| ID | 3698222 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robin Small |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robin |
| FAMILY NAME | Small |
| SIGNATURE | SMALL R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute |
| ORCID | 0009-0002-1042-2728 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Routledge Guidebook to Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Nietzsche notoriously said that anyone who could understand six sentences of Z would have risen to a higher level than modern humanity (EH “Books” Z). Nietzsche scholars have dared to go much further in claiming a grasp of the book’s content. When “Peter Gast” (aka Heinrich Köselitz) brought out a new edition of Z in 1893, he contributed a lengthy preface that, he explained, was only a forerunner of the full, line-by-line commentary that was cert…
The Demon and His Message
In The Gay Science §341, the thought of eternal return is introduced as the announcement of a “demon.” Two possible hearers are described: one is crushed by the demon’s speech, while the other is overjoyed. This article argues that these responses are different because they are responses to different messages. One is conveyed in plain words by the demon’s speech; the other is implied by a final reference to “this ultimate eternal confirmation and…
Unpublished Fragments from the Period of Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Summer 1882–Winter 1883/84)
The Stanford University Press edition of Nietzsche's works in English translation continues here with the Nachlass from what is described as “the period of Thus Spoke Zarathustra.” Based on the edition of Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari, it corresponds to volume 10 of their Sämtliche Werke: Kritische Studienausgabe and to volume 7/1 of their Kritische Gesamtausgabe: Werke, which appeared in 1976. Colli and Montinari's editorial apparatus has …
Marx and Education
Marx and Education is the first assessment of the educational thought of Karl Marx (1818-1883) and its later influence, in the light of developments at the close of the twentieth century. It provides a new perspective, in which many aspects of Marx's ideas are seen clearly for the first time, freed from misleading associations and outdated prejudices. Marx's thinking on education touches on many still current issues: about personal development, t…
Nietzsche in Context
Nietzsche in Context presents a comprehensive reinterpretation of Nietzsche’s thought, placing Nietzsche in the context of the philosophers of his own time. Offering a survey of important philosophical themes, Robin Small identifies the writer or writers with whom Nietzsche most felt himself to be engaging in dialogue. This historical dimension is complemented by original analysis and interpretation of the ideas under discussion. Nietzsche in Con…
Happiness, hope, and despair: Rethinking the role of education
Peter Roberts’ new book is the latest of his contributions aiming to provide alternatives to what he regards as conventional beliefs and attitudes in education. As its title shows, he is not afraid
Karl Marx: The Revolutionary as Educator
Time and becoming in Nietzsche's thought
Puzzles about time - about past, present and future, and the nature of becoming - have concerned philosophers from the ancient Greeks to the present day. Yet few have been as radical in their thinking as Friedrich Nietzsche. Time and Becoming in Nietzsche's Thought explores Nietzsche's approach to temporality, showing that his metaphorical and literary presentations lend themselves, in surprising detail, to the debates that have engaged other thi…
Nietzsche's Epic of the Soul: “Thus Spake Zarathustra”
Nietzsche's Philosophical Context: An Intellectual Biography
Book Review| October 01 2008 Nietzsche's Philosophical Context: An Intellectual Biography Nietzsche's Philosophical Context: An Intellectual BiographyBrobjer, Thomas H. Robin Small Robin Small Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Journal of Nietzsche Studies (2008) 35-36 (1): 182–183. https://doi.org/10.2307/20717939 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Robin Small; Nietzsche's Philoso…
Peter Gast”
Research Article| October 01 2006 “Peter Gast” Robin Small Robin Small Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Journal of Nietzsche Studies (2006) 32 (1): 62–67. https://doi.org/10.2307/20717886 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Robin Small; “Peter Gast”. The Journal of Nietzsche Studies 1 October 2006; 32 (1): 62–67. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/20717886 Download citation file: Zotero…
Nietzsche and Rée: A Star Friendship
This book is about the relationship of Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) and Paul Rée (1849–1901). During a close friendship lasting for seven years, the two shared ideas and developed a new and original approach to philosophy and ethics. There followed a dramatic break, brought about in part by personal factors but also by a divergence in their directions as thinkers. For Nietzsche, the period of collaboration was a crucial stage in his developmen…
A Fallacy in Constructivist Epistemology
Codes Are Not Enough: What Philosophy Can Contribute To The Ethics Of Educational Research
Formal codes of ethics are not the best way of addressing ethical issues arising in educational research. Philosophers have often exaggerated the importance of such codes, although philosophy has little to contribute to them. What we need rather is a closer attention to the ways in which ethical decisions about research are actually made. Moral theory can contribute here by clarifying this process and identifying helpful procedures and strategies…
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Ressentiment, Revenge, and Punishment: Origins of the Nietzschean Critique
Nietzsche's thinking on justice and punishment explores the motives and forces which lie behind moral concepts and social institutions. His dialogue with several writers of his time is discussed here. Eugen Dühring had argued that a natural feeling of ressentiment against those who have harmed us is the source of the concept of injustice, so that punishment, even in its most impersonal form, is always a form of revenge. In attacking this theory, …
Conference Reports
Nietzsche, Spir, and Time
Nietzsche, Spir, and Time ROBIN SMALL THE THEMEOF TIMEfigures quite prominently in Nietzsche's philosophy. It is a key element in his most important ideas, such as the doctrines of the will to power and the eternal recurrence. Most commentators, however, content themselves with noting the main features of Nietzsche's concept of time, without going into the more subde, but also more difficult, questions raised in an attempt to elaborate the concep…
Conference
The Bible as Rhetoric: Studies in Biblical Persuasion and Credibility , edited by Martin Walker
Incommensurability and Recurrence: From Oresme to Simmel
The doctrine of eternal recurrence, which asserts that every state of affairs must come into being again on infinitely many other occasions, has attracted few supporters and many opponents. The arguments deployed against it have also been many and varied. The present discussion aims at throwing new light on just one of these arguments, by revealing a historical dimension which has until now gone unnoticed. The argument is to be found in Georg Sim…
One need not be a Marxist: A response to Vandenberg
(1987). One need not be a Marxist: A response to Vandenberg. Educational Philosophy and Theory: Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 12-19
Boscovich Contra Nietzsche
An interest in physical theory is evident in many of the writings of Nietzsche. So too is the influence on his ideas of an important thinker of the previous century whose significance in the development of modern science is perhaps still not fully recognized. Nietzsche encountered the work of Roger Joseph Boscovich at an early stage in his career, and was impressed by its relevance to his own concerns.' In it he found an alternative to traditiona…
Tristram Shandy's Last Page
This note criticises an argument used by W. L. Craig against an actual infinity of past events. He argues that if Russell's use of the story of Tristram Shandy, who took a year to recount each day of his life, is extended into an infinite past, then Cantor's principle of correspondence leads to the absurd conclusion that Tristram Shandy has already written his last page. I show that no such conclusion can be drawn, and that a ‘past’ version of th…
Three Interpretations of Eternal Recurrence
It is commonly agreed that Nietzsche's doctrine of eternal recurrence is hard to understand. The difficulty lies not so much in any great complexity or highly technical character as in uncertainty over what kind of doctrine it is intended to be. Without knowing this we are in no position to agree upon the guidelines for assessing its validity or invalidity. In this discussion I intend to suggest an approach to the problem which will help us to an…
Codes Are Not Enough: What Philosophy Can Contribute To The Ethics Of Educational Research
Formal codes of ethics are not the best way of addressing ethical issues arising in educational research. Philosophers have often exaggerated the importance of such codes, although philosophy has little to contribute to them. What we need rather is a closer attention to the ways in which ethical decisions about research are actually made. Moral theory can contribute here by clarifying this process and identifying helpful procedures and strategies…
A Fallacy in Constructivist Epistemology
Incommensurability and Recurrence: From Oresme to Simmel
The doctrine of eternal recurrence, which asserts that every state of affairs must come into being again on infinitely many other occasions, has attracted few supporters and many opponents. The arguments deployed against it have also been many and varied. The present discussion aims at throwing new light on just one of these arguments, by revealing a historical dimension which has until now gone unnoticed. The argument is to be found in Georg Sim…
One need not be a Marxist: A response to Vandenberg
(1987). One need not be a Marxist: A response to Vandenberg. Educational Philosophy and Theory: Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 12-19
Tristram Shandy's Last Page
This note criticises an argument used by W. L. Craig against an actual infinity of past events. He argues that if Russell's use of the story of Tristram Shandy, who took a year to recount each day of his life, is extended into an infinite past, then Cantor's principle of correspondence leads to the absurd conclusion that Tristram Shandy has already written his last page. I show that no such conclusion can be drawn, and that a ‘past’ version of th…
Nietzsche and a Platonist Tradition of the Cosmos: Center Everywhere and Circumference Nowhere
Geography in Aberystwyth: Essays Written on the Occasion of the Departmental Jubilee 1917/18-1967/68
Geography in Aberystwyth: Essays Written on the Occasion of the Departmental Jubilee 1917/18-1967/68
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, No. 52
Educational Praxis
Ryle and Husserl
Three Interpretations of Eternal Recurrence
It is commonly agreed that Nietzsche's doctrine of eternal recurrence is hard to understand. The difficulty lies not so much in any great complexity or highly technical character as in uncertainty over what kind of doctrine it is intended to be. Without knowing this we are in no position to agree upon the guidelines for assessing its validity or invalidity. In this discussion I intend to suggest an approach to the problem which will help us to an…
Knowledge and Ideology in the Marxist Philosophy of Education
(1983). Knowledge and Ideology in the Marxist Philosophy of Education. Educational Philosophy and Theory: Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 15-37
Nietzsche and a Platonist Tradition of the Cosmos: Center Everywhere and Circumference Nowhere
Boscovich Contra Nietzsche
An interest in physical theory is evident in many of the writings of Nietzsche. So too is the influence on his ideas of an important thinker of the previous century whose significance in the development of modern science is perhaps still not fully recognized. Nietzsche encountered the work of Roger Joseph Boscovich at an early stage in his career, and was impressed by its relevance to his own concerns.' In it he found an alternative to traditiona…
Tristram Shandy's Last Page
This note criticises an argument used by W. L. Craig against an actual infinity of past events. He argues that if Russell's use of the story of Tristram Shandy, who took a year to recount each day of his life, is extended into an infinite past, then Cantor's principle of correspondence leads to the absurd conclusion that Tristram Shandy has already written his last page. I show that no such conclusion can be drawn, and that a ‘past’ version of th…
One need not be a Marxist: A response to Vandenberg
(1987). One need not be a Marxist: A response to Vandenberg. Educational Philosophy and Theory: Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 12-19
The Bible as Rhetoric: Studies in Biblical Persuasion and Credibility , edited by Martin Walker
Incommensurability and Recurrence: From Oresme to Simmel
The doctrine of eternal recurrence, which asserts that every state of affairs must come into being again on infinitely many other occasions, has attracted few supporters and many opponents. The arguments deployed against it have also been many and varied. The present discussion aims at throwing new light on just one of these arguments, by revealing a historical dimension which has until now gone unnoticed. The argument is to be found in Georg Sim…
Conference
Nietzsche, Spir, and Time
Nietzsche, Spir, and Time ROBIN SMALL THE THEMEOF TIMEfigures quite prominently in Nietzsche's philosophy. It is a key element in his most important ideas, such as the doctrines of the will to power and the eternal recurrence. Most commentators, however, content themselves with noting the main features of Nietzsche's concept of time, without going into the more subde, but also more difficult, questions raised in an attempt to elaborate the concep…
Conference Reports
Ressentiment, Revenge, and Punishment: Origins of the Nietzschean Critique
Nietzsche's thinking on justice and punishment explores the motives and forces which lie behind moral concepts and social institutions. His dialogue with several writers of his time is discussed here. Eugen Dühring had argued that a natural feeling of ressentiment against those who have harmed us is the source of the concept of injustice, so that punishment, even in its most impersonal form, is always a form of revenge. In attacking this theory, …
Production safety for film, television, and video
Codes Are Not Enough: What Philosophy Can Contribute To The Ethics Of Educational Research
Formal codes of ethics are not the best way of addressing ethical issues arising in educational research. Philosophers have often exaggerated the importance of such codes, although philosophy has little to contribute to them. What we need rather is a closer attention to the ways in which ethical decisions about research are actually made. Moral theory can contribute here by clarifying this process and identifying helpful procedures and strategies…
A Fallacy in Constructivist Epistemology
Nietzsche and Rée: A Star Friendship
This book is about the relationship of Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) and Paul Rée (1849–1901). During a close friendship lasting for seven years, the two shared ideas and developed a new and original approach to philosophy and ethics. There followed a dramatic break, brought about in part by personal factors but also by a divergence in their directions as thinkers. For Nietzsche, the period of collaboration was a crucial stage in his developmen…
Peter Gast”
Research Article| October 01 2006 “Peter Gast” Robin Small Robin Small Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Journal of Nietzsche Studies (2006) 32 (1): 62–67. https://doi.org/10.2307/20717886 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Robin Small; “Peter Gast”. The Journal of Nietzsche Studies 1 October 2006; 32 (1): 62–67. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/20717886 Download citation file: Zotero…
Nietzsche's Philosophical Context: An Intellectual Biography
Book Review| October 01 2008 Nietzsche's Philosophical Context: An Intellectual Biography Nietzsche's Philosophical Context: An Intellectual BiographyBrobjer, Thomas H. Robin Small Robin Small Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Journal of Nietzsche Studies (2008) 35-36 (1): 182–183. https://doi.org/10.2307/20717939 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Robin Small; Nietzsche's Philoso…
Nietzsche's Epic of the Soul: “Thus Spake Zarathustra”
Time and becoming in Nietzsche's thought
Puzzles about time - about past, present and future, and the nature of becoming - have concerned philosophers from the ancient Greeks to the present day. Yet few have been as radical in their thinking as Friedrich Nietzsche. Time and Becoming in Nietzsche's Thought explores Nietzsche's approach to temporality, showing that his metaphorical and literary presentations lend themselves, in surprising detail, to the debates that have engaged other thi…
Karl Marx: The Revolutionary as Educator
Philosophy (22 works) · Epistemology (18 works) · Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Hegel (14 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Art (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Literature (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · History (6 works)