Author | : Peter Levine |
File Size | : 54,7 Mb |
Publisher | : SUNY Press |
Language | : English |
Release Date | : 01 January 1995 |
ISBN | : 079142328X |
Pages | : 306 pages |
Nietzsche and the Modern Crisis of the Humanities by Peter Levine Book PDF Summary
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.