Contesting Nietzsche
By: Christa Davis Acampora
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9780226923901; 9780226923918
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Struggle
Description: In this groundbreaking work, Christa Davis Acampora offers a profound rethinking of Friedrich Nietzsche's crucial notion of the agon. Analysing an impressive array of primary and secondary sources and synthesising decades of Nietzsche scholarship, she shows how the agon, or contest, organised core areas of Nietzsche's philosophy, providing a new appreciation of the subtleties of his notorious views about power.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Agon as analytic, diagnostic, and antidote; title: Contesting Homer: the poiesis of value; title: Contesting Socrates: Nietzsche's (artful) naturalism; title: Contesting Paul: toward an ethos of agonism; title: Contesting Wagner: how one becomes what one is.