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135. - Nietzsche, Friedrich (1844–1900)

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 January 2025

By
Martin Saar
Edited by
Karolina Hübner  and
Justin Steinberg
Karolina Hübner
Affiliation:
Cornell University, New York
Justin Steinberg
Affiliation:
Cornell University, New York
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Friedrich Nietzsche, the German philosopher and philologist who was known only to a small circle of writers and intellectuals during his lifetime, became one of the most celebrated and controversial thinkers in the following century, with an intellectual legacy rivalling that of Hegel and Marx. Like those two, he held Spinoza in high esteem. Unlike them, however, he did not spend much time on reading Spinoza’s text firsthand. Recent scholarship suggests that he might have based his judgments and impressions exclusively on the account provided by Kuno Fischer in his popular textbook on the history of modern philosophy.

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The Cambridge Spinoza Lexicon , pp. 389 - 390
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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Deleuze, G. (2001). Spinoza: Practical Philosophy, trans. R. Hurley. City Lights.Google Scholar
Nietzsche, F. (1974). The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs, trans. W. Kaufmann. Random House.Google Scholar
Nietzsche, F. (1956). The Portable Nietzsche, trans. and ed. W. Kaufmann. Viking.Google Scholar
Rotter, H. M. (2019). Selbsterhaltung und Wille zur Macht: Nietzsches Spinoza-Rezeption. De Gruyter.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Schacht, R. (1995). Making Sense of Nietzsche. University of Illinois Press.Google Scholar
Yovel, Y. (1992). Spinoza and Other Heretics, vol. ii. Princeton University Press.Google Scholar

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