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Nehamas, Alexander : Reply to Korsmeyer and Gaut

_British Journal of Aesthetics_ 50 (2):205-207. 2010 (No abstract is available for this citation)(direct link)

Nehamas, Alexander : Aristotelian Philia, Modern Friendship

_Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy_ 39:213 - 248. 2010

Nehamas, A. : Nietzsche, Psychology, and First Philosophy

_Common Knowledge_ 18 (2):361-362. 2012 Friedrich Nietzsche is one of the most elusive thinkers in the philosophical tradition. His highly unusual style and insistence on what remains hidden or unsaid in his writing make pinning him to a particular position tricky. Nonetheless, certain readings of his work have become standard and influential. In this major new interpretation of Nietzsche’s work, Robert B. Pippin challenges various traditional views of Nietzsche, taking him at his word when he says that his writing can best be understood as a kind of psychology.Pippin traces this idea of Nietzsche as a psychologist to his admiration for the French moralists: La Rochefoucauld, Pascal, Stendhal, and especially Montaigne. In distinction from philosophers, Pippin shows, these writers avoided grand metaphysical theories in favor of reflections on life as lived and experienced. Aligning himself with this project, Nietzsche sought to make psychology “the queen of the sciences” and the “path to the fundamental problems.” Pippin contends that Nietzsche’s singular prose was an essential part of this goal, and so he organizes the book around four of Nietzsche’s most important images and metaphors: that truth could be a woman, that a science could be gay, that God could have died, and that an agent is as much one with his act as lightning is with its flash.Expanded from a series of lectures Pippin delivered at the Collège de France, Nietzsche, Psychology, and First Philosophy offers a brilliant, novel, and accessible reading of this seminal thinker(direct link)

Geuss, Raymond ; Nehamas, Alexander & Löb, Ladislaus (eds.): Nietzsche: Writings From the Early Notebooks

Nietzsche's unpublished notes are extraordinary in both volume and interest, and indispensable to a full understanding of his lifelong engagement with the fundamental questions of philosophy. This volume includes an extensive selection of the notes he kept during the early years of his career. They address the philosophy of Schopenhauer, the nature of tragedy, the relationship of language to music, the importance of Classical Greek culture for modern life, and the value of the unfettered pursuit of truth and knowledge which Nietzsche thought was a central feature of western culture since it was first introduced by Plato. They contain startling and original answers to the questions which were to occupy Nietzsche throughout his life and demonstrate the remarkable stability and consistency of his fundamental concerns. They are presented here in a new translation by Landislaus Löb, and an introduction by Alexander Nehamas sets them in their philosophical and historical contexts

Geuss, Raymond ; Nehamas, Alexander & Löb, Ladislaus (eds.): Nietzsche: Writings From the Early Notebooks

Nietzsche's unpublished notes are extraordinary in both volume and interest, and indispensable to a full understanding of his lifelong engagement with the fundamental questions of philosophy. This volume includes an extensive selection of the notes he kept during the early years of his career. They address the philosophy of Schopenhauer, the nature of tragedy, the relationship of language to music, the importance of Classical Greek culture for modern life, and the value of the unfettered pursuit of truth and knowledge which Nietzsche thought was a central feature of western culture since it was first introduced by Plato. They contain startling and original answers to the questions which were to occupy Nietzsche throughout his life and demonstrate the remarkable stability and consistency of his fundamental concerns. They are presented here in a new translation by Landislaus Löb, and an introduction by Alexander Nehamas sets them in their philosophical and historical contexts.

Nehamas, Alexander & Furley, David J. (eds.): Aristotle's Rhetoric Philosophical Essays

Monograph Collection (Matt - Pseudo). 1994

Nehamas, Alexander : Introduction

In Alexander Nehamas & David J. Furley (eds.), Aristotle's "Rhetoric": Philosophical Essays . Princeton University Press. 2015

Nehamas, Alexander : Pity and Fear in the Rhetoric and the Poetics

In Alexander Nehamas & David J. Furley (eds.), Aristotle's "Rhetoric": Philosophical Essays . Princeton University Press. 257-282. 2015

Nehamas, Alexander : The Philosophical Disenfranchisement of Art and The State of the Art by Arthur C. Danto

Journal of Philosophy 85 (4):214-219. 1988

Nehamas, A. : Immanent and Transcendent Perspectivism in Nietzsche

Nietzsche-Studien 12:473. 1983