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  title info:
    title: Individuality and beyond
    sub title: Nietzsche reads Emerson
  name:
    name part: Zavatta, Benedetta
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Reynolds, Alexander
    role:
      role term: translator.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2019
    copyright date: 2019
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xxv, 265 pages ; 25 cm.
  abstract: Though few might think to connect the two figures, Ralph Waldo Emerson was an important influence on Friedrich Nietzsche. Specifically, Emerson played a fundamental role in shaping Nietzsche's philosophical ideas on individualism, perfectionism and the pursuit of virtue, as well as his critiques of social conditioning, religious dogmatism and anti-natural morality. With Individuality and Beyond, Benedetta Zavatta offers the first philosophical interpretation of Emerson's influence on Nietzsche based on a sound philological analysis of previously unpublished materials from Nietzsche's private library. Nietzsche's collection reveals numerous copies of Emerson's essays covered with annotations and marginalia as Nietzsche revisited these works throughout his life. Through close-reading, Zavatta casts a new light on the ways in which Emerson's work informed Nietzsche's defining ideas of self-creation, the relation between fate and free will, overcoming morality of customs and achieving moral autonomy and the "transvaluation" of such values as compassion and altruism. Zavatta organizes these concepts into two main lines of thought, the first concerns the development of the individual personality, or the achievement of intellectual and moral autonomy and original self-expression. The second, on the contrary, concerns the overcoming of individuality and the need to transcend a limited view of the world by continually questioning one's own values and engaging with opposing perspectives. Ultimately, Zavatta clarifies the surprising contributions that Emerson made to twentieth century European philosophy. She provides a fresh portrait of Emerson as an American thinker long stereotyped as a naive idealist disinterested in the social issues of his day. Seen through the eyes of Nietzsche, his acute interpreter, Emerson becomes an incisive cultural critic, whose contributions underpin contemporary philosophy.
  note: Benedetta Zavatta ; translated by Alexander Reynolds.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm
      name part: 1844-1900
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Emerson, Ralph Waldo
      name part: 1803-1882
    topic: Influence
  classification: B3317 .Z358 2019
  classification: 193
  identifier: 9780190929213
  identifier: 0190929219
  identifier: 2018056203
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 181128
    record change date: 20191021080901.0
    record identifier: in00003990643