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Product Description: Current understandings of the sublime are focused by a single word ('sublimity') and by a single author ('Longinus'). The sublime is not a word: it is a concept and an experience, or rather a whole range of ideas, meanings and experiences that are embedded in conceptual and experiential patterns...read more
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9781107037472 | Cambridge Univ Pr, March 31, 2016, cover price $160.00 | About this edition: Current understandings of the sublime are focused by a single word ('sublimity') and by a single author ('Longinus').
Product Description: The term "classical" is used to describe everything from the poems of Homer to entire periods of Greek and Roman antiquity. But just how did the concept evolve? This collection of essays by leading classics scholars from the United States and Europe challenges the limits of the current understanding of the term...read more
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9780691089416 | Princeton Univ Pr, October 28, 2005, cover price $75.00
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9780691089423 | Princeton Univ Pr, November 21, 2005, cover price $58.00 | About this edition: The term "classical" is used to describe everything from the poems of Homer to entire periods of Greek and Roman antiquity.
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9780472109081 | Univ of Michigan Pr, June 15, 1999, cover price $85.00
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9780472087792 | Reprint edition (Univ of Michigan Pr, January 31, 2002), cover price $36.00
Drawing on Nietzsche's prolific early notebooks and correspondence, this book challenges the polarized picture of Nietzsche as a philosopher who abandoned classical philology. It traces the contours of his earliest philological thinking and opens the way to a fresh view of his later thinking. The book's primary aim is to displace the developmental logic that has been a controlling factor in Nietzsche's reception, namely the assumption that Nietzsche passed from a precritical phase to an enlightened phase in which he liberated himself from metaphysics. A subsidiary aim is to decenter the view that fastens onto The Birth of Tragedy as a dramatic turning point in Nietzsche's thought. For Nietzsche, questions about the religion, art, and history of the classical world are bound up with fundamental questions about knowledge, culture, history, and the status of the subject. From his early writings, Nietzsche finds it difficult to separate questions about modernity from those about antiquity. Nor are the problems of classical philology ever far from his mind, even toward the end of his career. By showing how frequently the "later" Nietzsche appears in the early writings, the author hopes to provoke reflection on the adequacy of current characterizations of Nietzsche, and not just to raise questions about the periodization of his life and thought. The book traces Nietzsche's efforts, throughout his career, to determine the ways in which philosophy and philology are symptomatic of modern cultural habits, ideologies, and imaginings. In the form of a cultural anthropology, he may even have outlined the most trenchant model still available for confronting the ghostly specters that haunt Western society. Nietzsche's incessant preoccupation with the symptomatology of the modern subjectâits ailments, its allusions, and the signs of its irrepressible presenceâunifies his oeuvre more than any other single question. The author argues that Nietzsche arrived at this inquiry from a philological perspective, according to which subjective identity is viewed as part of a historical process. Embodied in practices, habits, and institutions, these inheritances of cultureâof which classical antiquity is a crucial partâundergo the vicissitudes of transmission, decipherment, reconstruction, reception, and especially falsification (whether through unwilled or deliberate misunderstanding). All of these factors are intimately bound up with the ways in which subjects form themselves. (view table of contents)
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9780804736671 | Stanford Univ Pr, January 1, 2001, cover price $77.00
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9780804736985 | Stanford Univ Pr, December 1, 2000, cover price $31.95 | About this edition: Drawing on Nietzsche's prolific early notebooks and correspondence, this book challenges the polarized picture of Nietzsche as a philosopher who abandoned classical philology.
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9780804736992 | Stanford Univ Pr, September 1, 2000, cover price $50.00
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9780804737005 | Stanford Univ Pr, October 1, 2000, cover price $24.95
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