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//-->Nietzsche’s Culture of HumanityNietzsche scholars have long been divided over whether Nietzsche is anaristocratic or a democratic thinker.Nietzche’s Culture of Humanityovercomes this debate by proving both sides wrong. Jeffrey Churchargues that in his early period writings, Nietzsche envisioned a culturalmeritocracy that drew on the classical German tradition of Kant andHerder. The young Nietzsche’s“cultureof humanity” synthesized thehigh and the low, the genius and the people, the nation and humanity.Nietzsche’s early ideal of culture can shed light on his mature periodthought because, Church argues, Nietzsche does not abandon thisfundamental commitment to a cultural meritocracy.Nietzche’s Cultureof Humanityargues that Nietzsche’s novel defense of culture can over-come persisting problems in contemporary liberal theories of culture. Assuch, this book should interest Nietzsche scholars, political theorists,and philosophers interested in modern thought, as well as contempor-ary thinkers concerned with the politics of culture.jeffrey churchis a political theorist whose research area is thehistory of modern political thought, with particular interest in contin-ental thought, from Jean-Jacques Rousseau through FriedrichNietzsche. His work examines the reﬂections of past philosophers onfreedom, individuality, education, and culture, and shows how thesereﬂections can inform contemporary liberal and democratic theory. Heis the author most recently ofInﬁnite Autonomy: The Divided Individ-ual in the Political Thought of G. W. F. Hegel and Friedrich Nietzsche,which won the Best First Book award given by the Foundations ofPolitical Theory section of the American Political Science Association.Nietzsche’s Culture of HumanityBeyond Aristocracy and Democracy in theEarly PeriodJEFFREY CHURCHUniversity of Houston [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]

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