Nietzsche and the modern crisis of the humanities
By: Peter Levine.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
Subjects: Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900.; Humanities.
Description: Levine argues that Strauss and Derrida have much in common, including an idealist, reified concept of culture that both inherited from Nietzsche. Levine interprets all of Nietzsche's basic doctrines in terms of this concept. Nietzsche's definition of culture produced epistemological and moral dilemmas for him and his followers, and encouraged them to devise alternatives to mainstream humanities.

Levine, however, offers an alternative paradigm of culture that better fits the data and allows us to understand and defend the humanities as a source of value.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-273) and index.