Few philosophers are as widely read or as widely misunderstood as Friedrich Nietzsche. When Danto's classic study was first published in 1965, many regarded Nietzsche as a brilliant but somewhat erratic thinker. Danto, however, presented a radically different picture, arguing that Nietzsche offered a systematic and coherent philosophy that anticipated many of the questions that...(展开全部)

Few philosophers are as widely read or as widely misunderstood as Friedrich Nietzsche. When Danto's classic study was first published in 1965, many regarded Nietzsche as a brilliant but somewhat erratic thinker. Danto, however, presented a radically different picture, arguing that Nietzsche offered a systematic and coherent philosophy that anticipated many of the questions that...(展开全部)

Few philosophers are as widely read or as widely misunderstood as Friedrich Nietzsche. When Danto's classic study was first published in 1965, many regarded Nietzsche as a brilliant but somewhat erratic thinker. Danto, however, presented a radically different picture, arguing that Nietzsche offered a systematic and coherent philosophy that anticipated many of the questions that...(展开全部)

This classic is the benchmark against which all modern books about Nietzsche are measured. When Walter Kaufmann wrote it in the immediate aftermath of World War II, most scholars outside Germany viewed Nietzsche as part madman, part proto-Nazi, and almost wholly unphilosophical. Kaufmann rehabilitated Nietzsche nearly single-handedly, presenting his works as one of the great ac...(展开全部)

【美】丽贝卡S.皮里（Rebekah S. Peery）：范德比尔特大学(VanderbiltUniversity)哲学博士，在雷德福大学(Radford University)任教哲学和宗教研究近二十年，教授课程包括柏拉图、亚里士多德、霍布斯、康德、尼采和海德格尔的哲学，以及道德、美学、大陆理性主义、英国经验主义、政治哲学与存在主义等。

More than eighty years after his death, Nietzsche’s writings and his career remain disquieting, disturbing, obscure. His most famous views—the will to power, the eternal recurrence, the Übermensch, the master morality—often seem incomprehensible or, worse, repugnant. Yet he remains a thinker of singular importance, a great opponent of Hegel and Kant, and the source of much that...(展开全部)

亚历山大•内哈马斯（Alexander Nehamas, 1946—），美国著名学者、教授，1990年起任教于普林斯顿大学，教授哲学和比较文学课程。他的研究兴趣广泛，包括古希腊哲学、艺术哲学、文学理论等。《尼采：生命之为文学》一书为他带来广泛的声誉，该书深入考察了尼采著作中的矛盾并致力于解决这些矛盾，认为尼采写作的目的是为了构建一个承载其价值观的文学形象。近年来，他提倡哲学应当为人们提供某种生活方式，这使他拥有更高的知名度。他的其他代表作品有《生活的艺术》（The Art of Living: Socratic Reflections from Plato to Foucault）、《真之美》（Virtues of Authenticity: Essays on Plato and Socrates）、《幸福的承诺》（Only a Promise o...(展开全部)

亚历山大•内哈马斯（Alexander Nehamas, 1946—），美国著名学者、教授，1990年起任教于普林斯顿大学，教授哲学和比较文学课程。他的研究兴趣广泛，包括古希腊哲学、艺术哲学、文学理论等。《尼采：生命之为文学》一书为他带来广泛的声誉，该书深入考察了尼采著作中的矛盾并致力于解决这些矛盾，认为尼采写作的目的是为了构建一个承载其价值观的文学形象。近年来，他提倡哲学应当为人们提供某种生活方式，这使他拥有更高的知名度。他的其他代表作品有《生活的艺术》（The Art of Living: Socratic Reflections from Plato to Foucault）、《真之美》（Virtues of Authenticity: Essays on Plato and Socrates）、《幸福的承诺》（Only a Promise o...(展开全部)

More than eighty years after his death, Nietzsche’s writings and his career remain disquieting, disturbing, obscure. His most famous views—the will to power, the eternal recurrence, the Übermensch, the master morality—often seem incomprehensible or, worse, repugnant. Yet he remains a thinker of singular importance, a great opponent of Hegel and Kant, and the source of much that...(展开全部)

Using Jacques Lacan's work as a key, Boothby reassesses Freud's most ambitious-and misunderstood-attempt at a general theory of mental functioning: metapsychology