The Romance of Individualism in Emerson and Nietzsche

by David Mikics

The great American thinker Ralph Waldo Emerson and the influential German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, though writing in different eras and ultimately developing significantly different philosophies, both praised the individual's wish to be transformed, to be fully created for the first time. Emerson and Nietzsche challenge us to undertake the task of identity on our own, in order to see (in Nietzsche's phrase) "how one becomes what one is."

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821414968
• ISBN13: 9780821414965
• Release Date: June 2003
• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"