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Article: Friedrich Nietzsche and Weimar Classicism.(Book review)
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- The Modern Language Review
- Article date:
- July 1, 2007
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Friedrich Nietzsche and Weimar Classicism. By PAUL BISHOP and R. H. STEPHENSON. (Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture) Rochester, NY Camden House. 2005. xi+281 pp. $80; 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-1-57113-280-2.
As the authors are quick to acknowledge, theirs is not the first attempt to connect Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophical concerns with those of Weimar Classicism. Paul Bishop and Roger Stephenson's study of this connection is, however, more ambitious than most. Adopting Nietzsche's own notion that the meaning of a phenomenon can be uncovered by tracing its genealogy, Bishop and Stephenson claim to identify in the aesthetics of Goethe ...