Lexington Books
Pages: 150
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Trim: 6 x 9
978-1-4985-0279-5 • Hardback • December 2016 • $80.00 • (£52.95)
978-1-4985-0280-1 • eBook • December 2016 • $76.00 • (£49.95)
Daw-Nay N. R. Evans Jr. is assistant professor of philosophy and African American studies at Lake Forest College.
Introduction
1: A Solution to “The Problem of Socrates” in Nietzsche’s Thought
2: Neither Friend Nor Foe: Nietzsche’s View of Plato
3: Thick as Thieves: Nietzsche’s Debts to Aristotle
4: Between Myth and Reality: The Case of Heraclitus
In his original and thought-provoking study, Daw-Nay Evans takes on a crucial area of Nietzsche studies, namely, Nietzsche’s relationship to classical Greek philosophy and offers the reader an illuminating examination of human reason, freedom, and passions. Evans provides a generous and hermeneutically sophisticated reading not only of Nietzsche, but also of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and Heraclitus. Anyone seeking to understand Nietzsche’s debt to the ancients should read this book.
— Elizabeth Millan, Professor of Philosophy, DePaul University
Daw-Nay Evans breaks exciting new ground in the enormously fruitful earth of Nietzsche’s classicism. His arguments are precise, creative and new; his writing is splendid; in the spirit of Nietzsche, he is willing to take risks. I recommend this book with the greatest enthusiasm to both the Nietzsche scholar and the general reader.
— Clancy Martin, University of Missouri