![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I hasten to add, though, that his monograph is not simply a summary of the production, content, and reception of one of Nietzsche's early works it is also a judicious philosophical evaluation of Nietzsche's views and arguments. Jensen is knowledgeable of not only the Anglophone but also the Germanophone secondary literatures, and he uses this expertise like a wide-angle lens to give his readers a synoptic perspective on the last thirteen decades of reactions to and interpretations of HL. He combines this linguistic facility with philological expertise and encyclopedic archival research to bring sober clarity to a field often plagued by flights of interpretive speculation. ) interested in Nietzsche, Jensen is fully at home with German language and idiom. This textual work is based on Jensen's comprehensive familiarity with the philosophical, philological, and historiographic culture in which Nietzsche was trained and to which he was in part responding. In his interpretation of Nietzsche's second "Untimely Meditation," On the Uses and Disadvantages for Life (henceforth HL), he demonstrates an attention to detail and meticulousness sometimes bordering on obsessiveness. Jensen has successfully undertaken an essential project for the fields of Nietzsche studies and philosophy of history. ![]()
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