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CUP Job: Danto AC, trim: 5.5 x 8.25, 3-color process only: cyan, magenta, and black. NO YELLOW; gloss lam full cover. All art is live and in position. All type prints black unless spec’d otherwise. bulk 5/8” F EW PHILOSOPHERS are as widely read or as widely misunderstood as Friedrich CO Da Nietzsche. When Danto’s classic study was first published in 1965, many VER nto regarded Nietzsche as a brilliant but somewhat erratic thinker. Danto, how- D E ever, presented a radically different picture, arguing that Nietzsche offered S IG a systematic and coherent philosophy that anticipated many of the questions N : that define contemporary philosophy. Danto’s clear and insightful commentaries LIS A helped canonize Nietzsche as a philosopher and continue to illuminate subtleties H in Nietzsche’s work as well as his immense contributions to the philosophies of A M science, language, and logic. M N This new edition, which includes five additional essays, not only further enhances C i O e V t our understanding of Nietzsche’s philosophy; it responds to the misunderstandings ER zs that continue to muddy his intellectual reputation. Even today, Nietzsche is seen IM c h as everything from a precursor of feminism and deconstruction to a prophetic AG e E writer and spokesperson for disgruntled teenage boys. As Danto points out in his : a © s preface, Nietzsche’s writings have purportedly inspired recent acts of violence B E P and school shootings. Danto counters these misreadings by elaborating an anti- TT h M i Nietzschian philosophy from within Nietzsche’s own philosophy “in the hope of A lo N s disarming the rabid Nietzsche and neutralizing the vivid frightening images that N o / C p have inspired sociopaths for over a century.” O h R B e The essays also consider specific works by Nietzsche, including Human, All Too IS r Human and The Genealogy of Morals, as well as the philosopher’s artistic meta- P EX R P physics and semantical nihilism. IN A T N E D D PRAISE FOR THE FIRST EDITION IN ED T H E “With skill and discernment Danto reveals the important strands of Nietzsche’s E D wheil disl yt ot ahnagvlee da sfakieri nh eaanrdin wg e. a.v .e isn t htheims bionotok ah ep agtetetsr nit., .g e. n. eNroieutszlsyc hane dn eexepdes rhtleyl.”p if U.S.A ITIO N —The New York Times Book Review Nietzsche as Philosopher Arthur C. Danto is the Emeritus Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University. He is the art critic for The Nation and has served as president of the American Philosophical Association. His many books include The Philosophical C O Disenfranchisement of Art; After the End of Art; The Madonna of the Future: Essays L U in a Pluralistic Art World; and Art in the Historical Present, which won the National M Arthur C . Danto Book Critics Circle Award. B IA COLUMBIA CLASSICS COLUMBIA CLASSICS IN PHILOSOPHY IN PHILOSOPHY COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS / NEW YORK www.cup.columbia.edu danto_pages 12/10/04 4:47 PM Page i Nietzsche as Philosopher Columbia Classics in Philosophy Columbia Classics in Philosophy Columbia Classics in Philosophy celebrates the longstanding tradition of influential works from Columbia University Press. Arthur C. Danto, The Philosophical Disenfranchisement of Art, with a foreword by Jonathan Gilmore John Rawls, Political Liberalism, Expanded Edition Noam Chomsky, Rules and Representatives, with a foreword by Norbert Hornstein Note on the design: The material added to this edition is set in a different typeface and with a different page design from the original pages of Nietzsche as Philosopher, thus maintaining the integrity of the first edition and distinguishing the added material. Nietzsche as Philosopher Expanded Edition Arthur C. Danto Columbia University Press New York Columbia University Press Publishers Since 1893 New York Chichester, West Sussex Copyright © 2005 Arthur C. Danto All rights reserved “Beginning to Be Nietzsche: On Human, All Too Human” was originally pub- lished as an introduction to Nietzsche’s Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits, trans. Marion Faber (University of Nebraska Press, 1996), ix–xix. “Nietzsche’s Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality” was originally published as “Thoughts of a Subterranean Man,” a review of R. J. Holling- dale’s translation of Nietzsche’s Morgenrote, Times Literary Supplement 4148 (1 October 1982): 1074. “Some Remarks on The Genealogy of Morals” was originally published in Niet- zsche, Genealogy, Morality: Essays on Nietzsche’sGenealogy of Morals, ed. Richard Schacht (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1994), 35–48. The preface to this volume and “The Tongues of Angels and Men: Nietzsche as Semantical Nihilist” first appeared in German in Arthur C. Danto, Nietzsche als Philosoph(Munich: Willhelm Fink Verlag, 1998) Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Danto, Arthur Coleman, 1924– Nietzsche as philosopher / Arthur C. Danto.—Expanded ed. p. cm.—(Columbia classics in philosophy) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-231-13518-4 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-231-13519-1 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844–1900. I. Title. II. Series. B3317.D3 2004 193—dc22 2004056186 Columbia University Press books are printed on permanent and durable acid-free paper. Printed in the United States of America T To the memory of my parents, Samuel B. and Sylvia Danto Contents Acknowledgments ix Preface to the Expanded Edition xiii Preface to the Morningside Edition xix Original Preface xxiii Nietzsche as Philosopher 1. Philosophical Nihilism 1 2. Art and Irrationality 18 3. Perspectivism 50 4. Philosophical Psychology 82 5. Moralities 112 6. Religious Psychology 144 7. Übermenschand Eternal Recurrence 177 8. The Will-to-Power 196 Nachwort 211 Aftertexts 1. The Tongues of Angels and Men: Nietzsche as Semantical Nihilist 217 2. A Comment on Nietzsche’s “Artistic Metaphysics” 229 3. Beginning to be Nietzsche: On Human, All Too Human 233 4. Nietzsche’s Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality 245 5. Some Remarks on The Genealogy of Morals 251 Notes 271 Index 281 Acknowledgments Nietzsche as Philosophergrew out of a long essay on Nietzsche, originally written as a contribution for A Critical History of Western Philoso- phy, edited by D. J. O’Connor, and published in 1964. The authors were not historians of philosophy so much as philosophers who, for one reason or other, had some particular interest in a figure from the past. It was a mo- ment when analytical philosophers had begun to think of the canonical texts of our discipline as something more than nonsense, which meant that the largely iconoclastic views of philosophy, militantly espoused by logical positivism, were at last losing their charm. I was invited to contribute to the O’Connor volume by the general editor of the series in which it appeared, Paul Edwards, largely because my philosophical credentials passed muster and because I was the only one he happened to know who met that crite- rion and also seemed to know anything about Nietzsche. Admittedly, I did not know a lot—but I had read Nietzsche as an undergraduate at Wayne University in Detroit with Marianna Cowan, who later published a superb translation of Beyond Good and Evil. I accepted the invitation chiefly out of brashness and wrote the essay in Rome. I had moved there from the south of France, where I had completed a draft of my first major book,The Ana- lytical Philosophy of History. As it turned out, my essay was too long, but Edwards offered me a contract for a book on Nietzsche if I would agree to shorten the article. The Analytical Philosophy of History and Nietzsche as Philosopherwere published in the same year, 1965.
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