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Nietzsche in American literature and thought / edited by Manfred Pütz

Published
Columbia, SC, USA : Camden House, [date of publication not identified][1995]
Copyright Date
©1995
Physical Description
381 pages ; 24 cm
Additional Creators
Pütz, Manfred, 1938-

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Contents
Nietzsche in America : an introduction / Manfred Pütz -- First steps in the New World : early popular reception of Nietzsche in America / Hays Steilberg -- The poetics of history and science in Nietzsche and Henry Adams / Julika Griem -- Moral opposition in Nietzsche and Howells / Jon-K Adams -- Contagious appearances : Nietzsche, Henry James, and the critique of fiction / Daniel T. O'Hara -- Nietzsky vs. the Booboisie : H.L. Mencken's uses and abuses of Nietzsche / Manfred Stassen -- Of wolves and lambs : Jack London's and Nietzsche's discourses of nature / Gerd Hurm -- Cowperwood's will to power : Dreiser's Trilogy of desire in the light of Nietzsche / Joseph C. Schöpp -- In the name of Nietzsche : Ezra Pound becomes himself and others / Kathryne V. Lindberg -- Dionysus and the word : the Nietzschean context of American modernist poetry (Cummings, Eliot, Stevens) / Elmar Schenkel -- Eugene O'Neill : America's Nietzschean playwright / Gerhard Hoffmann -- Hemingway and Nietzsche : the context of ideas / Christoph Kuhn -- From Dolson to Kaufmann : philosophical Nietzsche reception in America, 1901-1950 / Hays Steilberg -- The subject of Nietzsche : Danto, Nehamas, Staten / Stanley Corngold -- Stanley Cavell reading Nietzsche reading Emerson / Olaf Hansen -- Richard Rorty's pragmatic appropriation of Nietzsche / Lutz Ellrich -- Paul de Man and the postmodern myth of Nietzsche's deconstruction of causality / Manfred Pütz -- Elective affinities and American differences : Nietzsche and Harold Bloom / Hubert Zapf -- Nietzsche ground zero / Robert Ackermann.
Summary
Over the past hundred years Friedrich Nietzsche has proved to be one of the most fascinating and influential European thinkers to appear on the American scene. In recent years in particular, Nietzsche's ideas have had an overwhelming impact in every field of the humanities. Manfred Putz (University of Freiburg) has assembled a collection of essays by well-known American and German scholars, offering for the first time an encompassing survey of American reactions to the German philosopher-writer that ranges from detailed investigations of early responses to the complex contemporary debate over Nietzsche in the fields of literature, history, philosophy, and critical theory. All essays are original contributions written for this unique volume which is bound to prove indispensable as a reference work for present-day Nietzsche scholarship.
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ISBN
1571130284 (acid-free paper)
9781571130280 (acid-free paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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