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I Give You the Übermensch

Posted on July 24, 2010 by profgiles

One of the most notoriously misunderstood concepts in the history of philosophy is Friedrich Nietzsche’s Übermensch. The word “Übermensch” is too often mistranslated into English as “superman” but the German “Über” means “over” not “super” and that distinction is crucial … Continue reading →

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Book Review on Nietzsche Biography

Posted on May 1, 2010 by profgiles

There’s a new biography out called Friedrich Nietzsche: A Philosophical Biography by Julian Young. It is reviewed here in the New York Times. This is a different book than Nietzsche: A Philosophical Biography by Rudiger Safranski (Shelley Frisch, Translator).

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Defending Nietzsche Contra Žižek

Posted on February 21, 2010 by profgiles

Slavoj Žižek claimed: “Is it not too simple to relieve Nietzsche of responsibility by claiming that the Nazis distorted his thought? Of course they did, but so did Stalinism distort Marx, so was every theory changed (betrayed) in its practico-political … Continue reading →

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