Nietzsche and the Modern Crisis of the Humanities

Title: Nietzsche and the Modern Crisis of the Humanities
Author: Peter Levine
G: 1704084
ISBN: 9780791423288
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 1995
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 302
Section: Philosophy | History & Surveys | Modern
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Publisher Description: 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.