Anthony K Jensen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3768231 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anthony K Jensen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anthony K |
| FAMILY NAME | Jensen |
| SIGNATURE | JENSEN A K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Providence College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7064-3381 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Entropics of Discourse
This article examines the teleological historical system of Philipp Mainländer, an under-researched 19th-century German philosopher in the Schopenhauerian tradition. From both theogonical and physical arguments, Mainländer endorses a theory of general entropy, whereby the sum of forces in the universe gradually expends itself to the point of annihilation. Consistent with this, Mainländer presents the course of history as the movement of individua…
The Death and Redemption of God
In contrast to positivistic assignations of influence in Nietzsche-studies, this article considers the possibility of “conversational” reconstructions of contexts, where the focus is less on “whether” and “when” Nietzsche read a text, and concentrates instead on “how” and “why” he read it. This method is exemplified by the case of Philipp Mainländer, a contemporary about whom Nietzsche says almost nothing of philosophical importance. This article…
Intuição nas reconstruções da Renascença no século XIX alemão
A relação de Nietzsche com a imagem de Burckhardt da Renascença foi um meio de praticar a história. Nietzsche compartilhava com Burckhardt a preferência pela tipologia, a crença de que a verdade é alcançada intuitivamente e diz respeito à identidade interna de todas as coisas, e a preferência por grandes objetos e indivíduos históricos. E compartilhava com ele precisamente porque duas de suas influências comuns mais significativas foram Goethe e …
The Unconscious in History
This article exams the philosophy of history of the now mostly-forgotten 19th Century philosopher, Eduard von Hartmann. Hartmann inverts Hegel’s rational teleology by his reliance on a notion of ‘unconscious ideas’. Purposes are a species of idea. All natural things, including unintelligent natural things, will purposes of which they are often not conscious. These unconscious ideas cannot be held by natural beings that lack intellect, so there mu…
A visão afirmativa de Nietzsche na Segunda Consideração Extemporânea
A Segunda consideração extemporânea geralmente é tida em conta por filósofos e historiadores, em razão de sua crítica ao que Nietzsche classifica como “doença histórica”, (“historische Krankheit”). Isso por uma boa razão: a crítica de Nietzsche tem como alvo não apenas a famosa tríade composta por historiadores monumentais, antiquários e críticos, mas também suas modalidades contemporâneas em historiografia e teleologia científicas. O que frequen…
Schopenhauer's Philosophy of History
Contained mostly within one brief chapter of his The World as Will and Representation, Schopenhauer's philosophy of history has long been considered either hostile or irrelevant to nineteenth-century philosophy of history. This article argues that, on the contrary, Schopenhauer maintained what would become a widely accepted criticism of the methodological identity of historiography and the natural sciences. His criticism of Hegel's teleological h…
An Interpretation of Nietzsche’s On the Uses and Disadvantage of History for Life
With his An Interpretation of Nietzsche’s "On the Uses and Disadvantage of History for Life", Anthony K. Jensen shows how 'timely' Nietzsche’s second "Untimely Meditation" really is. This comprehensive and insightful study contextualizes and analyzes a wide range of Nietzsche’s earlier thoughts about history: teleology, typology, psychology, memory, classical philology, Hegelianism, and the role historiography plays in modern culture. On the Uses…
Julius Bahnsen's Influence on Nietzsche's Wills-Theory
This article traces the development of Nietzsche's early adoption and later rejection of Schopenhauer's theory of Will. I argue that Nietzsche's break with Schopenhauer was coextensive with his acceptance of explanatory naturalism about both external and internal activities. I argue further that a major source for four of his specific arguments against the Schopenhauerian primacy of the one Will was the little-known neo-Schopenhauerian thinker Ju…
Study of Nietzsche's on the Uses and Disadvantage of History for Life
Nietzsche's Philosophy of History
Nietzsche, the so-called herald of the 'philosophy of the future', nevertheless dealt with the past on nearly every page of his writing. Not only was he concerned with how past values, cultural practices and institutions influence the present - he was plainly aware that any attempt to understand that influence encounters many meta-historical problems. This comprehensive and lucid exposition of the development of Nietzsche's philosophy of history …
Nietzsche and Neo-Kantian historiography
In the German academies of Nietzsche's period of writing, the Kantian tradition was largely displaced in favor of two independent schools that have since been labeled "Neo-Kantianism." This paper presents four key theses about philosophy of history from four Neo-Kantian thinkers, how they follow from their adaptation of the Kantian tradition, and how Nietzsche critically engaged the very same issues in the formation of his own historical theory. …
Meta-Historical Transitions from Philology to Genealogy
Because Nietzsche rejects a temporally static ontology, his statements about values, customs, and beliefs typically involve a historical reconstruction of some kind. Given that his professional academic training was in philology, it is tempting to see a continuity between his early philological method and his later historiographical techniques, in particular, his genealogy. Two recent studies, by James I. Porter and Christian Benne, respectively,…
Nietzsche-Forum-München
The Nietzsche-Forum-München e.V. reflects a long history and tradition in Munich, in which the tragedies, fortunes, and revolutions of the twentieth century in Germany and Europe have left their significant vestiges.At precisely 5:00 p.m. on December 10, 1919, at Königinstraße 15, on the border of the famous English Garden in Munich,1 the society was founded with the first entry of the registry, which reads, “Nietzsche-Gesellschaft e.V.” The admi…
The Centrality and Development of Anschauung in Nietzsche's Epistemology
This article traces the evolution of a single concept—Anschauung—in Nietzsche's thinking. It shows that Nietzsche relies to a great extent in his early epistemology on Schopenhauer's romantic notion of Anschauung as a way of apprehending timeless and universal ideas. After The Birth of Tragedy, Nietzsche begins to use the term to designate the mental process of transference by which stimulation becomes a choate representation. In a third phase of…
Writings from the Early Notebooks
Nietzsche and Rée
The Rogue of All Rogues
Nietzsche’s Unpublished Fragments on Ancient Cynicism
Nietzsche and Antiquity
Schopenhauer's Philosophy of History
Contained mostly within one brief chapter of his The World as Will and Representation, Schopenhauer's philosophy of history has long been considered either hostile or irrelevant to nineteenth-century philosophy of history. This article argues that, on the contrary, Schopenhauer maintained what would become a widely accepted criticism of the methodological identity of historiography and the natural sciences. His criticism of Hegel's teleological h…
Meta-Historical Transitions from Philology to Genealogy
Because Nietzsche rejects a temporally static ontology, his statements about values, customs, and beliefs typically involve a historical reconstruction of some kind. Given that his professional academic training was in philology, it is tempting to see a continuity between his early philological method and his later historiographical techniques, in particular, his genealogy. Two recent studies, by James I. Porter and Christian Benne, respectively,…
Nietzsche’s Unpublished Fragments on Ancient Cynicism
Nietzsche and Antiquity
Nietzsche and Rée
The Rogue of All Rogues
Writings from the Early Notebooks
The Centrality and Development of Anschauung in Nietzsche's Epistemology
This article traces the evolution of a single concept—Anschauung—in Nietzsche's thinking. It shows that Nietzsche relies to a great extent in his early epistemology on Schopenhauer's romantic notion of Anschauung as a way of apprehending timeless and universal ideas. After The Birth of Tragedy, Nietzsche begins to use the term to designate the mental process of transference by which stimulation becomes a choate representation. In a third phase of…
Nietzsche's Philosophy of History
Nietzsche, the so-called herald of the 'philosophy of the future', nevertheless dealt with the past on nearly every page of his writing. Not only was he concerned with how past values, cultural practices and institutions influence the present - he was plainly aware that any attempt to understand that influence encounters many meta-historical problems. This comprehensive and lucid exposition of the development of Nietzsche's philosophy of history …
Nietzsche and Neo-Kantian historiography
In the German academies of Nietzsche's period of writing, the Kantian tradition was largely displaced in favor of two independent schools that have since been labeled "Neo-Kantianism." This paper presents four key theses about philosophy of history from four Neo-Kantian thinkers, how they follow from their adaptation of the Kantian tradition, and how Nietzsche critically engaged the very same issues in the formation of his own historical theory. …
Meta-Historical Transitions from Philology to Genealogy
Because Nietzsche rejects a temporally static ontology, his statements about values, customs, and beliefs typically involve a historical reconstruction of some kind. Given that his professional academic training was in philology, it is tempting to see a continuity between his early philological method and his later historiographical techniques, in particular, his genealogy. Two recent studies, by James I. Porter and Christian Benne, respectively,…
Nietzsche-Forum-München
The Nietzsche-Forum-München e.V. reflects a long history and tradition in Munich, in which the tragedies, fortunes, and revolutions of the twentieth century in Germany and Europe have left their significant vestiges.At precisely 5:00 p.m. on December 10, 1919, at Königinstraße 15, on the border of the famous English Garden in Munich,1 the society was founded with the first entry of the registry, which reads, “Nietzsche-Gesellschaft e.V.” The admi…
An Interpretation of Nietzsche’s On the Uses and Disadvantage of History for Life
With his An Interpretation of Nietzsche’s "On the Uses and Disadvantage of History for Life", Anthony K. Jensen shows how 'timely' Nietzsche’s second "Untimely Meditation" really is. This comprehensive and insightful study contextualizes and analyzes a wide range of Nietzsche’s earlier thoughts about history: teleology, typology, psychology, memory, classical philology, Hegelianism, and the role historiography plays in modern culture. On the Uses…
Julius Bahnsen's Influence on Nietzsche's Wills-Theory
This article traces the development of Nietzsche's early adoption and later rejection of Schopenhauer's theory of Will. I argue that Nietzsche's break with Schopenhauer was coextensive with his acceptance of explanatory naturalism about both external and internal activities. I argue further that a major source for four of his specific arguments against the Schopenhauerian primacy of the one Will was the little-known neo-Schopenhauerian thinker Ju…
Study of Nietzsche's on the Uses and Disadvantage of History for Life
Schopenhauer's Philosophy of History
Contained mostly within one brief chapter of his The World as Will and Representation, Schopenhauer's philosophy of history has long been considered either hostile or irrelevant to nineteenth-century philosophy of history. This article argues that, on the contrary, Schopenhauer maintained what would become a widely accepted criticism of the methodological identity of historiography and the natural sciences. His criticism of Hegel's teleological h…
A visão afirmativa de Nietzsche na Segunda Consideração Extemporânea
A Segunda consideração extemporânea geralmente é tida em conta por filósofos e historiadores, em razão de sua crítica ao que Nietzsche classifica como “doença histórica”, (“historische Krankheit”). Isso por uma boa razão: a crítica de Nietzsche tem como alvo não apenas a famosa tríade composta por historiadores monumentais, antiquários e críticos, mas também suas modalidades contemporâneas em historiografia e teleologia científicas. O que frequen…
Intuição nas reconstruções da Renascença no século XIX alemão
A relação de Nietzsche com a imagem de Burckhardt da Renascença foi um meio de praticar a história. Nietzsche compartilhava com Burckhardt a preferência pela tipologia, a crença de que a verdade é alcançada intuitivamente e diz respeito à identidade interna de todas as coisas, e a preferência por grandes objetos e indivíduos históricos. E compartilhava com ele precisamente porque duas de suas influências comuns mais significativas foram Goethe e …
The Unconscious in History
This article exams the philosophy of history of the now mostly-forgotten 19th Century philosopher, Eduard von Hartmann. Hartmann inverts Hegel’s rational teleology by his reliance on a notion of ‘unconscious ideas’. Purposes are a species of idea. All natural things, including unintelligent natural things, will purposes of which they are often not conscious. These unconscious ideas cannot be held by natural beings that lack intellect, so there mu…
The Death and Redemption of God
In contrast to positivistic assignations of influence in Nietzsche-studies, this article considers the possibility of “conversational” reconstructions of contexts, where the focus is less on “whether” and “when” Nietzsche read a text, and concentrates instead on “how” and “why” he read it. This method is exemplified by the case of Philipp Mainländer, a contemporary about whom Nietzsche says almost nothing of philosophical importance. This article…
The Entropics of Discourse
This article examines the teleological historical system of Philipp Mainländer, an under-researched 19th-century German philosopher in the Schopenhauerian tradition. From both theogonical and physical arguments, Mainländer endorses a theory of general entropy, whereby the sum of forces in the universe gradually expends itself to the point of annihilation. Consistent with this, Mainländer presents the course of history as the movement of individua…
Philosophy (17 works) · Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Hegel (15 works) · Epistemology (11 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Art (8 works) · History (8 works) · Literature (7 works) · Hume's philosophy and hair distribution (5 works) · Philosophical Ethics and Theory (5 works) · German Literature and Culture Studies (4 works)