Nietzsche For and Against the Enlightenment

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ID6402215
AuthorsGraeme Garrard (0000-0002-0782-6361, corresponding author)
Year2008
Volume70
Issue4
Pages595-608
Publication date2008-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Review of Politics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0034-6705 • E-ISSN: 1748-6858
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0034670508000788
OpenAlexW2114718652
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited25

This essay explores Nietzsche's attitude to the Enlightenment, which the author argues underwent a major reversal between his so-called middle works and his later writings. The author examines the nature of this change and considers some of the reasons behind it. In the process, some of Nietzsche's “postmodern” admirers are taken to task for appropriating his criticisms of the Enlightenment without acknowledging his ambivalence toward it. Furthermore, the radical change in Nietzsche's view of the Enlightenment is taken as evidence of the periodization of his thought, which some prominent Nietzsche scholars (e.g. Walter Kaufmann) have disputed

Aesthetics · Ambivalence · Ancient history · Art · Enlightenment · Epistemology · Literature · Periodization · Postmodernism · Psychoanalysis · Education, Literature, Philosophy Research · History · Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Hegel · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Psychology

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