Nietzsche and Modern Times: A Study of Bacon, Descartes, and Nietzsche

By Laurence Lampert

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300065108
• ISBN13: 9780300065107
• Release Date: August 1995
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 490 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"