Beyond Hegel and Nietzsche
Subtitle: Philosophy, Culture, and Agency (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought)
Publisher: The MIT Press; MIT Press
Published: October 30, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 369
ISBN-13: 9780262100878
Subjects: Western philosophy, c 1800 to c 1900; Western philosophy, from c 1900 -; Hegel, George Wilhelm Friedrich; Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm; Philosophy; History & Surveys - Modern; Philosophy / General; 1770-1831; 1844-1900; 19th century; Agent (Philosophy); Culture; Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich; Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich,; History; Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm,
First sentence: From the perspective of mainstream philosophical culture, Hegel and Nietzsche both exemplify the superfluousness of nineteenth-century philosophy.
Description: "In this book Elliot Jurist places Hegel and Nietzsche in conversation with each other, reassessing their relationship in a way that affirms its complexity. Jurist examines Hegel's and Nietzsche's claim that philosophy and culture are linked and explicates the various meanings of "culture' in their work - in particular, the contrast both thinkers draw between ancient and modern culture. He evaluates their positions on the failure of modern culture and on the need to develop conceptions of satisfied agency.

It is Jurist's original contribution to focus on the psychological sensibility that informs the projects of both philosophers. Writing in an admirably clear style, he traces the ongoing legacy of Hegel's and Nietzsche's thought in Adorno, Habermas, Honneth, Jessica Benjamin, Heidegger, Derrida, Lacan, and Butler."--BOOK JACKET.