The Shortest Shadow: Nietzsche's Philosophy of the Two

by Alenka Zupan&#269 I&#269 and Alenka Zupančič

Restoring Nietzsche to a Nietzschean context--examining the definitive element that animates his work.

What is it that makes Nietzsche Nietzsche? In The Shortest Shadow, Alenka Zupančič counters the currently fashionable appropriation of Nietzsche as a philosopher who was "ahead of his time" but whose time has finally come--the rather patronizing reduction of his often extraordinary statements to mere opinions that we can...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262740265
• ISBN13: 9780262740265
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher