Repository | Book | Chapter
(1986) Nietzsche as affirmative thinker, Dordrecht, Springer.
A mad dog, foaming at the moustache and snarling at the world; that is how the American artist David Levine portrays Friedrich Nietzsche in his well-known caricature in The New York Review of Books. It is not so different in its malicious intent, nor further wrong in its interpretation of Nietzsche, than a good number of scholarly works. This is indeed the traditional portrait — the unconsummated consummate immoralist, the personally gentle even timid arch-destroyer. Of course, Nietzsche himself made adolescent comments about his own destructiveness not infrequently — throughout the whole of Ecce Homo, for example. Nevertheless, these give a false impression of his intentions as well as of the good philosophical sense to be made of his works.
Publication details
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-4360-5_5
Full citation:
Solomon, R. (1986)., A more severe morality: Nietzsche's affirmative ethics, in Y. Yovel (ed.), Nietzsche as affirmative thinker, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 69-89.
This document is unfortunately not available for download at the moment.