Lexington Books
Pages: 146
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978-0-7391-0981-6 • Hardback • March 2005 • $108.00 • (£83.00)
978-0-7391-2320-1 • Paperback • March 2008 • $56.99 • (£44.00)
978-0-7391-5224-9 • eBook • March 2005 • $54.00 • (£42.00)
Paul A. Swift is a lecturer at Bryant University.
Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 Introduction: How One Becomes What One Is
Chapter 3 Teleology and the Legend of Democritus
Chapter 4 Nietzsche on Schopenhauer in 1867
Chapter 5 The End of Teleology
Chapter 6 Conclusion: Aesthetic of Becoming
Paul Swift's Becoming Nietzsche is an important contribution to Nietzsche studies, emphasizing his earliest encounter with Democritus, Schopenhauer, and Kant. Swift ably discusses Nietzsche's response to many of their ideas and concepts relating to,for example, teleology and metaphysics. Swift brings to the fore problems and texts by the early Nietzsche which have received far too little attention previously....
— Thomas H. Brobjer, Uppsala University, Sweden
Swift's monograph makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of Nietzsche's philosophical genealogy tout court. Swift demonstrates beyond reasonable doubt the importance to Nietzsche's later philosophical campaigns of this early period in his development....
— October 2006
Swift focuses much welcome and needed attention on the still much neglected earliest philosophical writings by Nietzsche.....
— James I. Porter