Thomas H Brobjer
Biographic Data
| ID | 460854 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas H Brobjer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas H |
| FAMILY NAME | Brobjer |
| SIGNATURE | BROBJER T H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Uppsala University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Close Relationship between Nietzsche's Two Most Important Books
This book emphasizes that Nietzsche was still working until the last weeks before he collapsed and provides analyses of Nietzsche's late thought.
Twilight of the Idols and Nietzsche's Late Philosophy
Thomas H. Brobjer revisits Nietzsche’s Twilight of the Idols (1888) and positions it as a rich and stimulating work that contains and summarizes Nietzsche’s late philosophy, especially his unfinished magnum opus, The Revaluation of All Values. By examining the contents and the purpose of The Twilight of the Idols in relation to Nietzsche’s Hauptwerk, Brobjer shows the deep influence of the values project on its construction, a theme ignored by al…
Nietzsche’s Reading and Knowledge of Natural Science
This chapter discusses Friedrich Nietzsche’s intellectual development in terms of his reading of books relating to natural science. The young Nietzsche had little interest in, and knowledge of, the natural sciences, and read few books in the field. The great representative of critical positivism or empiriocriticism, Ernst Mach, who was indebted to Fechner’s Elemente de Psychophysik and worked as a researcher on sense perception, argued that all e…
Nietzsche and Science
Contents: Introduction, Gregory Moore. Part I Nietzsche's Knowledge Of Science: Nietzsche's reading and knowledge of natural science: an overview, Thomas H. Brobjer Nietzsche: 'that profound physiologist', Richard S.G. Brown Nietzsche, medicine and meteorology, Gregory Moore Metaphor, perception and consciousness: Nietzsche on rhetoric and neurophysiology, Christian J. Emden Reading Nietzsche through Ernst Mach, Nadeem J.Z. Hussain. Part II Nietz…
The Origin and Early Context of the Revaluation Theme in Nietzsche’s Thinking
Most commentators have assumed that the revaluation theme belongs exclusively to the late Nietzsche (from Thus Spoke Zarathustra and onward); often its origin is dated to 1886 or 1884. After examining Nietzsche’s notes, I argue that its origin occurred in 1880-81. I discuss its rather complex context at this time, with no single obvious thematic textual context outweighing all the others, and consider some of the consequences of this early dating…
Nietzsche's Relation to Historical Methods and Nineteenth-century German Historiography
Nietzsche is generally regarded as a severe critic of historical method and scholarship; this view has influenced much of contemporary discussions about the role and nature of historical scholarship. In this article I argue that this view is seriously mistaken (to a large degree because of the somewhat misleading nature of Vom Nutzen und Nachtheil der Historie für das Leben). I do so by examining what he actually says about understanding history …
Nietzsche's magnum opus
Nietzsche did not write a completed magnum opus, a 'Hauptwerk', but he planned to do so during at least the last 5 years of his active life. I will show that during and after the writing of Also sprach Zarathustra this was his main aim and ambition. The projected work passed through a number of related phases, of which the much discussed and controversial 'Will to Power' was merely one. This intention to write a magnum opus has been denied or alm…
Nietzsche's Reading About Eastern Philosophy
There are some good reasons to believe that Nietzsche was interested in Eastern philosophy. While still at Schulpforta, he refers to it in his first philosophical essay. He thereafter became a follower of Schopenhauer, the philosopher with most interest in and similarity to Eastern philosophy. In his notebooks and books, he refers to different aspects of Asian philosophy on more than four hundred occasions, and in several of these he claims to be…
Nietzsche's View of the Value of Historical Studies and Methods
Nietzsche's View of the Value of Historical Studies and Methods Thomas H. Brobjer Nietzsche is generally regarded as a severe and hostile critic of historical studies, and it is possible that the expression "historical sickness" (historische Krankheit) was made current through him. This picture of Nietzsche's view of the value of historical studies and methods is almost exclusively based on his early work, the second Untimely Meditation, On the U…
Nietzsche’s Reading of Epictetus
Nietzsche's Affirmative Morality
In this article I shall attempt to give a birds-eye view of Nietzsche's ethics, with special emphasis on its affirmative aspect. I will also attempt to show that there exists one relatively simple aspect of Nietzsche's ethics that has not been realized, but that makes it much more consistent and comprehensible. In summary: Nietzsche's ethics, unlike almost all thinking about ethics in the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth was…
Nietzsche’s Knowledge of Marx and Marxism
The Absence of Political Ideals in Nietzsche's Writings
The Absence of Political Ideals in Nietzsche ́s Writings: The Case of the Laws of Manu and the Associated Caste-Society
Nietzsche's Reading and Private Library, 1885-1889
Nietzsche’s Reading and Private Library, 1885–1889 Thomas H. Brobjer One can easily get the impression that Nietzsche read little, especially later in his life. He criticizes reading because it is not sufficiently life-affirming and Dionysian: “Early in the morning at the break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of one’s strength, to read a book—I call that vicious!...” 1 He also criticizes it for making one reactive and forcing one to be conc…
Nietzsche's Relation to Historical Methods and Nineteenth-century German Historiography
Nietzsche is generally regarded as a severe critic of historical method and scholarship; this view has influenced much of contemporary discussions about the role and nature of historical scholarship. In this article I argue that this view is seriously mistaken (to a large degree because of the somewhat misleading nature of Vom Nutzen und Nachtheil der Historie für das Leben). I do so by examining what he actually says about understanding history …
Nietzsche's magnum opus
Nietzsche did not write a completed magnum opus, a 'Hauptwerk', but he planned to do so during at least the last 5 years of his active life. I will show that during and after the writing of Also sprach Zarathustra this was his main aim and ambition. The projected work passed through a number of related phases, of which the much discussed and controversial 'Will to Power' was merely one. This intention to write a magnum opus has been denied or alm…
Nietzsche's Reading and Private Library, 1885-1889
Nietzsche’s Reading and Private Library, 1885–1889 Thomas H. Brobjer One can easily get the impression that Nietzsche read little, especially later in his life. He criticizes reading because it is not sufficiently life-affirming and Dionysian: “Early in the morning at the break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of one’s strength, to read a book—I call that vicious!...” 1 He also criticizes it for making one reactive and forcing one to be conc…
Nietzsche's Reading and Private Library, 1885-1889
Nietzsche’s Reading and Private Library, 1885–1889 Thomas H. Brobjer One can easily get the impression that Nietzsche read little, especially later in his life. He criticizes reading because it is not sufficiently life-affirming and Dionysian: “Early in the morning at the break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of one’s strength, to read a book—I call that vicious!...” 1 He also criticizes it for making one reactive and forcing one to be conc…
The Absence of Political Ideals in Nietzsche's Writings
The Absence of Political Ideals in Nietzsche ́s Writings: The Case of the Laws of Manu and the Associated Caste-Society
Nietzsche’s Knowledge of Marx and Marxism
Nietzsche’s Reading of Epictetus
Nietzsche's Affirmative Morality
In this article I shall attempt to give a birds-eye view of Nietzsche's ethics, with special emphasis on its affirmative aspect. I will also attempt to show that there exists one relatively simple aspect of Nietzsche's ethics that has not been realized, but that makes it much more consistent and comprehensible. In summary: Nietzsche's ethics, unlike almost all thinking about ethics in the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth was…
Nietzsche's Reading About Eastern Philosophy
There are some good reasons to believe that Nietzsche was interested in Eastern philosophy. While still at Schulpforta, he refers to it in his first philosophical essay. He thereafter became a follower of Schopenhauer, the philosopher with most interest in and similarity to Eastern philosophy. In his notebooks and books, he refers to different aspects of Asian philosophy on more than four hundred occasions, and in several of these he claims to be…
Nietzsche's View of the Value of Historical Studies and Methods
Nietzsche's View of the Value of Historical Studies and Methods Thomas H. Brobjer Nietzsche is generally regarded as a severe and hostile critic of historical studies, and it is possible that the expression "historical sickness" (historische Krankheit) was made current through him. This picture of Nietzsche's view of the value of historical studies and methods is almost exclusively based on his early work, the second Untimely Meditation, On the U…
Nietzsche's magnum opus
Nietzsche did not write a completed magnum opus, a 'Hauptwerk', but he planned to do so during at least the last 5 years of his active life. I will show that during and after the writing of Also sprach Zarathustra this was his main aim and ambition. The projected work passed through a number of related phases, of which the much discussed and controversial 'Will to Power' was merely one. This intention to write a magnum opus has been denied or alm…
Nietzsche's Relation to Historical Methods and Nineteenth-century German Historiography
Nietzsche is generally regarded as a severe critic of historical method and scholarship; this view has influenced much of contemporary discussions about the role and nature of historical scholarship. In this article I argue that this view is seriously mistaken (to a large degree because of the somewhat misleading nature of Vom Nutzen und Nachtheil der Historie für das Leben). I do so by examining what he actually says about understanding history …
The Origin and Early Context of the Revaluation Theme in Nietzsche’s Thinking
Most commentators have assumed that the revaluation theme belongs exclusively to the late Nietzsche (from Thus Spoke Zarathustra and onward); often its origin is dated to 1886 or 1884. After examining Nietzsche’s notes, I argue that its origin occurred in 1880-81. I discuss its rather complex context at this time, with no single obvious thematic textual context outweighing all the others, and consider some of the consequences of this early dating…
Nietzsche’s Reading and Knowledge of Natural Science
This chapter discusses Friedrich Nietzsche’s intellectual development in terms of his reading of books relating to natural science. The young Nietzsche had little interest in, and knowledge of, the natural sciences, and read few books in the field. The great representative of critical positivism or empiriocriticism, Ernst Mach, who was indebted to Fechner’s Elemente de Psychophysik and worked as a researcher on sense perception, argued that all e…
Nietzsche and Science
Contents: Introduction, Gregory Moore. Part I Nietzsche's Knowledge Of Science: Nietzsche's reading and knowledge of natural science: an overview, Thomas H. Brobjer Nietzsche: 'that profound physiologist', Richard S.G. Brown Nietzsche, medicine and meteorology, Gregory Moore Metaphor, perception and consciousness: Nietzsche on rhetoric and neurophysiology, Christian J. Emden Reading Nietzsche through Ernst Mach, Nadeem J.Z. Hussain. Part II Nietz…
The Close Relationship between Nietzsche's Two Most Important Books
This book emphasizes that Nietzsche was still working until the last weeks before he collapsed and provides analyses of Nietzsche's late thought.
Twilight of the Idols and Nietzsche's Late Philosophy
Thomas H. Brobjer revisits Nietzsche’s Twilight of the Idols (1888) and positions it as a rich and stimulating work that contains and summarizes Nietzsche’s late philosophy, especially his unfinished magnum opus, The Revaluation of All Values. By examining the contents and the purpose of The Twilight of the Idols in relation to Nietzsche’s Hauptwerk, Brobjer shows the deep influence of the values project on its construction, a theme ignored by al…
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