Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- PART I DEMOCRACY AND GLOBALIZATION
- PART II INDIA AND THE WORLD
- PART III SOCIAL NORMS AND POLITICAL ECONOMY
- PART IV PERSONS
- 31 Amartya Sen
- 32 John Nash: Paranoid, Schizophrenic, Nobel Laureate
- 33 Nobel for Market Failures: Akerlof, Spence, and Stiglitz
- 34 Nietzsche Century
- PART V ON THE ROAD, AROUND THE WORLD
- Index
34 - Nietzsche Century
from PART IV - PERSONS
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 March 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- PART I DEMOCRACY AND GLOBALIZATION
- PART II INDIA AND THE WORLD
- PART III SOCIAL NORMS AND POLITICAL ECONOMY
- PART IV PERSONS
- 31 Amartya Sen
- 32 John Nash: Paranoid, Schizophrenic, Nobel Laureate
- 33 Nobel for Market Failures: Akerlof, Spence, and Stiglitz
- 34 Nietzsche Century
- PART V ON THE ROAD, AROUND THE WORLD
- Index
Summary
25 August 2000 passed uneventfully. There were notices here and there, in a British newspaper, in a German magazine. Yet a century ago, on this very day, one of the greatest philosophers of the last millennium died. For a few years prior to his death he had become a celebrity. His books were selling in their tens of thousands. His writings were being analysed, worshipped, and vilified. The only person who did not know of his fame was Friedrich Nietzsche himself, because for the last eleven years of his life he had been bedridden, stricken with insanity and paralysis.
Since his death, the Nietzsche legend has continued to grow, and though his thought may not be the stuff of popular media, there has been an unbelievably large amount of writing on him—on his work and on his influence in the world of politics. The last is ironic, because he detested politicians, political parties, and ideology. Nevertheless, a variety of politicians, many of them with completely contrary views, have claimed allegiance to his philosophy.
It is not difficult to fathom why this is so. Nietzsche did not write with the precision of an analytic philosopher. He had instead a rabblerousing style, full of lyricism, delightful in ambiguity.
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- The Retreat of Democracy and Other Itinerant Essays on Globalization, Economics, and India , pp. 220 - 222Publisher: Anthem PressPrint publication year: 2010