Keith ansell pearson biography of william hill
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Keith Ansell-Pearson
Professor of Philosophy, Warwick University, Honorary President of the Friedrich Nietzsche Society,
New Book
A new book entitled Nietzsche's Earthbound Wisdom.
The Philosopher, the Poet, and the Sage, will be published by University of Chicago Press in the spring of .
Keith ansell pearson biography of william hill
Today, Nietzsche is rightly celebrated for his rich, philosophical naturalism, but we must not overlook the visionary dimension of his thinking and his focus on the need to cultivate a new care of the self and care of life.
In the book I set out to recover Nietzsche’s love for a philosophy that guides us through our passions and opens us more fully to the possibilities of life and the joy of knowledge. I offer close readings of Nietzsche’s texts in conversation with philosophical and literary figures including Augustine, Baudelaire, Carlyle, Dostoevsky, Emerson, Flaubert, Stendhal, and more.
I probe Nietzsche’s critique of literary naturalism and his alternative conception of the poet as