Nietzsche's rhetoric : four case studies / Francesca Cauchi.

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Nietzsche's rhetoric : four case studies / Francesca Cauchi.

9783031429644 (electronic bk.)
3031429648 (electronic bk.)
9783031429637
303142963X

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.

English

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10.1007/978-3-031-42964-4 doi

P301 .C38 2023

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This book excavates the rhetorical devices that Nietzsche habitually uses and explains how they constitute a distinctive form of philosophical argumentation. Through a sustained analysis of Nietzsche's rhetorical style, stratagems, and didactic aims in two of his early works ('On Truth and Lies in a Non-Moral Sense' and Daybreak) and two of his later works (Beyond Good and Evil and Twilight of the Idols), the book assesses the extent to which Nietzsche's substantial rhetorical arsenal undermines the philosophical claims he is seeking to advance. The four case studies also bring to the fore some of the less palatable aspects of Nietzsche's thought such as racial-stereotyping, the essentialising of a so-called slave mentality, and the ranking of human beings based on a highly idiosyncratic and prejudiced view of what qualifies as noble and ignoble.

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