Nietzsche's Rhetoric: Four Case Studies

Nietzsche's Rhetoric: Four Case Studies

Author
Francesca Cauchi
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Language
English
Year
2023
Page
122
ISBN
3031429648,9783031429644
File Type
epub
File Size
326.0 KiB

This book excavates the rhetorical devices that Nietzsche habitually uses and demonstrates how they circumscribe rather than expand the reader’s interpretive horizon. Through a sustained analysis of Nietzsche’s rhetorical style, stratagems, and didactic aims in two of his early works (‘On Truth and Lies in a Non-Moral Sense’ and Daybreak) and two of his later works (Beyond Good and Evil and Twilight of the Idols), the book assesses the extent to which Nietzsche’s substantial rhetorical arsenal undermines the philosophical claims he is seeking to advance. The four case studies also bring to the fore some of the less palatable aspects of Nietzsche’s thought such as racial stereotyping, the essentialising of a so-called slave mentality, and the ranking of human beings based on a highly idiosyncratic and prejudiced view of what qualifies as noble and ignoble.

show more...

How to Download?!!!

Just click on START button on Telegram Bot

Free Download Book