Un éminent spécialiste des études nietzschéennes, son travail explore les profondeurs de la pensée philosophique, en se concentrant sur l'interprétation et la compréhension des concepts clés. Son expertise a façonné la compréhension moderne de l'œuvre de Nietzsche et son influence durable sur la philosophie.
This book explores the character of modernity through a consideration of Bacon, Descartes, and Nietzsche. It argues that Bacon and Descartes, in their positive claims for science, played the fundamental role in the development of the modern world view; that they used the Platonic art of dissimulative writing as the means to achieve their ends by making their revolutionary aims appear compatible with Christianity; and that Nietzsche understood both their ends and their means and set out to ground an antimodern world view.
This comprehensive interpretation of Nietzsche's only narrative work offers a chapter-by-chapter commentary that clarifies both the narrative structure of the text and the evolution of Nietzsche's philosophical thought. Laurence Lampert's analysis is praised as an impressive scholarly achievement that addresses the complexities of the work in an unprecedented manner, making it an invaluable resource for serious students of Nietzsche. Reviewers commend the study for its passion and dedication to the text, highlighting it as the first genuine textual commentary in English that serves as a reader's guide. Lampert's thorough examination provides significant insights into Nietzsche's poetic and philosophical style, as well as his deeply held values. The detailed commentary is recognized as the most useful English-language companion to this intriguing work, contributing meaningfully to the field of Nietzsche scholarship. Selected as one of Choice's outstanding academic books for 1988, this study is bound to reignite interest in the text and elevate scholarly standards.
According to Lampert, Nietzsche begins with a critique of philosophy that is ultimately affirmative, because it shows how philosophy can arrive at a defensible ontological account of the way of all beings. Nietzsche next argues that a new post-Christian religion can arise out of the affirmation of the world disclosed to philosophy. Then, turning to the implications of the new ontology for morality and politics, Nietzsche argues that these can be reconstituted on the fundamental insights of the new philosophy. Nietzsche’s comprehensive depiction of this anti-Platonic philosophy ends with a chapter on nobility, in which he contends that what can now be publicly celebrated as noble in our species are its highest achievements of mind and spirit.
The trajectory of Friedrich Nietzsche’s thought has long presented a difficulty for the study of his philosophy. How did the young Nietzsche—classicist and ardent advocate of Wagner’s cultural renewal—become the philosopher of Will to Power and the Eternal Return? With this book, Laurence Lampert answers that question. He does so through his trademark technique of close readings of key works in Nietzsche’s journey to philosophy: The Birth of Tragedy, Schopenhauer as Educator, Richard Wagner in Bayreuth, Human All Too Human, and “Sanctus Januarius,” the final book of the 1882 Gay Science. Relying partly on how Nietzsche himself characterized his books in his many autobiographical guides to the trajectory of his thought, Lampert sets each in the context of Nietzsche’s writings as a whole, and looks at how they individually treat the question of what a philosopher is. Indispensable to his conclusions are the workbooks in which Nietzsche first recorded his advances, especially the 1881 workbook which shows him gradually gaining insights into the two foundations of his mature thinking. The result is the most complete picture we’ve had yet of the philosopher’s development, one that gives us a Promethean Nietzsche, gaining knowledge even as he was expanding his thought to create new worlds.
