Nietzsche and modern times
Subtitle: a study of Bacon, Descartes, and Nietzsche
By: Laurence Lampert.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1993
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 475
Subjects: Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900; Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626; Descartes, René, 1596-1650; Philosophy and civilization; Philosophy and science
Description: This book explores the character of modernity through a consideration of Bacon, Descartes, and Nietzsche. It argues that Bacon and Descartes, in their positive claims for science, played the fundamental role in the development of the modern world view; that they used the Platonic art of dissimulative writing as the means to achieve their ends by making their revolutionary aims appear compatible with Christianity; and that Nietzsche understood both their ends and their means and set out to ground an antimodern world view.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 447-457) and index.