Nietzsche, Psychology, and First Philosophy

Robert B. Pippin

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Chicago University Press
15 December 2011

Philosophy; Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900

Friedrich Nietzsche is one of the most elusive thinkers in the philosophical tradition. His highly unusual style and insistence on what remains hidden or unsaid in his writing make pinning him to a particular position tricky. Nonetheless, certain readings of his work have become standard and influential. In this major new interpretation of Nietzsche’s work, Robert B. Pippin challenges various traditional views of Nietzsche, taking him at his word when he says that his writing can best be understood as a kind of psychology.

Pippin traces this idea of Nietzsche as a psychologist to his admiration for the French moralists: La Rochefoucauld, Pascal, Stendhal, and especially Montaigne. In distinction from philosophers, Pippin shows, these writers avoided grand metaphysical theories in favor of reflections on life as lived and experienced. Aligning himself with this project, Nietzsche sought to make psychology “the queen of the sciences” and the “path to the fundamental problems.” Pippin contends that Nietzsche’s singular prose was an essential part of this goal, and so he organizes the book around four of Nietzsche’s most important images and metaphors: that truth could be a woman, that a science could be gay, that God could have died, and that an agent is as much one with his act as lightning is with its flash.

Expanded from a series of lectures Pippin delivered at the Collège de France, Nietzsche, Psychology, and First Philosophy offers a brilliant, novel, and accessible reading of this seminal thinker.

By: Robert B. Pippin
Imprint: Chicago University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 23mm, Width: 16mm, Spine: 1mm
Weight: 312g
ISBN: 9780226669762
ISBN 10: 0226669769
Publication Date: 15 December 2011
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Nietzsche, Psychology, and First Philosophy

“There have been literally hundreds of works on Nietzsche published over the last thirty years, but none of them approach him in quite the way Robert Pippin does here. The result of long and deep reflection on Nietzsche’s philosophical project, Nietzsche, Psychology, and First Philosophy does not attempt to reduce all philosophical theorizing to psychology, but instead suggests that Nietzsche’s philosophical thinking, like that of the French moralistes before him, was driven by a desire to understand how human beings think about their lives and why they think about their lives in the ways that they do.”--Alan D. Schrift, Grinnell College