Originally posted by Bosse de NagePerhaps not fully, but the basic concept of the will to power is not too difficult to grasp.
You think they understand him?
Nietszche had a great influence on 20th century artists--both good ones (Yeats, for example) and not-so-good ones (Hitler). Philosophers like Foucault & Deleuze also owe him a great debt.
Originally posted by bbarrI'm told that the man with the moustache has had more of an impact in European than in Anglo-American academia.
I'm not sure what that means. It is not as if Nietzsche spawned any research programs.
For what it's worth here's a list of people he is said to have influenced:
Specific 20th century figures who were influenced, either quite substantially, or in a significant part, by Nietzsche include painters, dancers, musicians, playwrights, poets, novelists, psychologists, sociologists, literary theorists, historians, and philosophers: Alfred Adler, Georges Bataille, Martin Buber, Albert Camus, E.M. Cioran, Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, Isadora Duncan, Michel Foucault, Sigmund Freud, Stefan George, André Gide, Hermann Hesse, Carl Jung, Martin Heidegger, Gustav Mahler, André Malraux, Thomas Mann, Rainer Maria Rilke, Jean-Paul Sartre, Max Scheler, Giovanni Segantini, George Bernard Shaw, Lev Shestov, Georg Simmel, Oswald Spengler, Richard Strauss, Paul Tillich, Ferdinand Tönnies, Mary Wigman, William Butler Yeats and Stefan Zweig.
(http://setis.library.usyd.edu.au/stanford/entries/nietzsche/)
Originally posted by Bosse de NageWell, I'm not qualified to comment on his Continental impact. I wonder, however, in what manner he has influenced the above. After all, Descartes influenced my epistemological positions, even though I disagree with the vast majority of his work.
I'm told that the man with the moustache has had more of an impact in European than in Anglo-American academia.
For what it's worth here's a list of people he is said to have influenced:
Specific 20th century figures who were influenced, either quite substantially, or in a significant part, by Nietzsche include painters, dancers, musicians, pl ...[text shortened]... Butler Yeats and Stefan Zweig.
(http://setis.library.usyd.edu.au/stanford/entries/nietzsche/)
Originally posted by bbarrTo get to the bottom of that you'd have to launch an entire research program...Deleuze said something like he wrote in an effort to get Nietszche off his back (he used the language of abortion but I don't remember the exact wording).
I wonder, however, in what manner he has influenced the above.
Here's something off the Web:http://www.wsws.org/articles/2000/oct2000/niet-o23.shtml
...run down the page until you get to structuralism & post-structuralism (what is their status currently?).
Originally posted by Bosse de NageHe master in linguistics. To answer your fisrt question, Nietzsche does not fit the tradutional "philosopher", but he is considered one of the grat thinkers and very influential on the 20th century.
Which disciplines if any do you think have taken Nietszche to heart (apart from literature studies)?
