Nietzsche's Culture of Humanity: Beyond Aristocracy and Democracy in the Early Period

by Jeffrey Church

Nietzsche scholars have long been divided over whether Nietzsche is an aristocratic or a democratic thinker. Nietzche's Culture of Humanity overcomes this debate by proving both sides wrong. Jeffrey Church argues that in his early period writings, Nietzsche envisioned a cultural meritocracy that drew on the classical German tradition of Kant and Herder. The young Nietzsche's 'culture of humanity' synthesized the high and low, the genius and the people,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107120268
• ISBN13: 9781107120266
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"