Lexington Books
Pages: 180
Trim: 6 x 9
978-0-7391-8991-7 • Hardback • October 2014 • $97.00 • (£75.00)
978-0-7391-8992-4 • eBook • October 2014 • $92.00 • (£71.00)
Matthew Tones is adjunct research fellow at Griffith University.
Chapter 1: The Greek Origin of Tragic Disposition
Chapter 2: Growth from Becoming: Phusis as Nurturer
Chapter 3: Sacrilege: The Need for Promethean Nobility
Chapter 4: Unknown Paths: The Tension of the Journey
Chapter 5: New Antipodes: Pathos, Vertigo, Wanderings
This is an impressive study of the central role that the tragic plays in Nietzsche's philosophy, including how creativity and nobility figure in this core notion. Noteworthy is an account of how Nietzsche both relied upon, and then diverged from, the Greek sense of tragedy. A welcome contribution to the literature.
— Lawrence J. Hatab, Old Dominion University
This is an impressive study of the central role that the tragic plays in Nietzsche's philosophy, including how creativity and nobility figure in this core notion. Noteworthy is an account of how Nietzsche both relied upon, and then diverged from, the Greek sense of tragedy. A welcome contribution to the literature.
— Paul Bishop, University of Glasgow
Nietzsche, Tension and the Tragic Disposition traces the development of Nietzsche’s philosophical vision from his earliest contacts with pre-Socratic and pre-Platonic thinking to its final apogee in the therapeutic teachings of Beyond Good and Evil, and Zarathustra. It gives an excellent account of the unavoidable suffering implied in the human condition, and how the attainment of great heights of nobility of soul is always dependent on acts of sacrilege. Matthew Tones deftly reveals Nietzsche’s proclamation of the death of God as a new act of such sacrilege, enabling new heights of vision over deep abysses of terror.
— Horst Hutter, Concordia University