Adam Lecznar
Biographic Data
| ID | 4870502 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adam Lecznar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adam |
| FAMILY NAME | Lecznar |
| SIGNATURE | LECZNAR A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Royal Holloway University of London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Classicisms in the Black Atlantic
Hesiod in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
This chapter introduces some key moments from Hesiod’s reception during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and offers a starting point for future scholarship in this new field of research. It explores examples of Hesiod’s reception by French, English, and German figures, including Voltaire, John Flaxman, and Friedrich Nietzsche, to demonstrate the European scope of the ancient author’s appeal while also drawing attention to some of the recur…
Alcibiades in love
Prior to spending his final winter in Turin, the city that witnessed his irreversible mental breakdown at the beginning of 1889, Nietzsche had passed the previous five in the French coastal city of Nice, glad of a climate that would allow him to read, write, and think in spite of his worsening eyesight and deteriorating health. On 9 January 1887, during his penultimate stay, he wrote a striking letter to the theologian Franz Overbeck, who had bee…
Aryan, German, or Greek? Nietzsche's Prometheus between antiquity and modernity
This article explores Friedrich Nietzsche’s reception of the ancient Greek mythical figure Prometheus as a window onto the philosopher’s changing notions regarding antiquity. In the first instance it will examine the sources of the myth, both ancient and modern, in order to assess how Nietzsche’s appropriation fits into the broader history of Promethean receptions. It will then turn to two of Nietzsche’s main philosophical works, The Birth of Tra…
Alcibiades in love
Prior to spending his final winter in Turin, the city that witnessed his irreversible mental breakdown at the beginning of 1889, Nietzsche had passed the previous five in the French coastal city of Nice, glad of a climate that would allow him to read, write, and think in spite of his worsening eyesight and deteriorating health. On 9 January 1887, during his penultimate stay, he wrote a striking letter to the theologian Franz Overbeck, who had bee…
Aryan, German, or Greek? Nietzsche's Prometheus between antiquity and modernity
This article explores Friedrich Nietzsche’s reception of the ancient Greek mythical figure Prometheus as a window onto the philosopher’s changing notions regarding antiquity. In the first instance it will examine the sources of the myth, both ancient and modern, in order to assess how Nietzsche’s appropriation fits into the broader history of Promethean receptions. It will then turn to two of Nietzsche’s main philosophical works, The Birth of Tra…
Alcibiades in love
Prior to spending his final winter in Turin, the city that witnessed his irreversible mental breakdown at the beginning of 1889, Nietzsche had passed the previous five in the French coastal city of Nice, glad of a climate that would allow him to read, write, and think in spite of his worsening eyesight and deteriorating health. On 9 January 1887, during his penultimate stay, he wrote a striking letter to the theologian Franz Overbeck, who had bee…
Hesiod in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
This chapter introduces some key moments from Hesiod’s reception during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and offers a starting point for future scholarship in this new field of research. It explores examples of Hesiod’s reception by French, English, and German figures, including Voltaire, John Flaxman, and Friedrich Nietzsche, to demonstrate the European scope of the ancient author’s appeal while also drawing attention to some of the recur…
Classicisms in the Black Atlantic
Art (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · History (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Modernity (2 works) · Narrative (2 works) · Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Hegel (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works)