Product Description: Neither art nor philosophy was kind to beauty during the twentieth century. Much modern art disdains beauty, and many philosophers deeply suspect that beauty merely paints over or distracts us from horrors. Intellectuals consigned the passions of beauty to the margins, replacing them with the anemic and rarefied alternative, "aesthetic pleasure...read more

Product Description: Alexander Nehamas ofrece una provocadora interpretación de la obra de Nietzche como un titánico esfuerzo de creación de un universo literario. Este ensayo recorre las ideas centrales de su obra: la voluntad de poder, la del eterno retorno, la naturaleza del yo y la muerte de Dios...read more

A comprehensive and wide-ranging analysis of the continuing importance of the thought of Socrates in Western philosophy demonstrates how the Socratic concern for the correct way to live one's life has influenced such modern philosopher's as Montaigne, Nietzsche, and Foucault. UP.

Product Description: The eminent philosopher and classical scholar Alexander Nehamas presents here a collection of his most important essays on Plato and Socrates. The papers are unified in theme by the idea that Plato's central philosophical concern in metaphysics, ethics, and aesthetics was to distinguish the authentic from the fake, the original from its imitations...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Argues that Nietzsche tried to create a specific literary character in his writings and discusses the paradoxes of his work