Why Didn't Nietzsche Get His Act Together? av Elijah (E. E. Ericksen Distinguished Professor of Philosophy E. E. Ericksen Distinguished Professor

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Nietzsche wrote the philosophical work for which he is most famous while he was coming apart at the seams. The circumstances of Nietzsche''s dramatic psychological disintegration make his writing, while popular, often hard for readers to understand. Elijah Millgram here argues for a new framework for making sense of Nietzsche-one that transforms the way we read him.Why Didn''t Nietzsche Get His Act Together? argues that Nietzsche''s late works (from Thus Spoke Zarathustra onwards) should not be read as straightforwardly endorsing a consistent or systematic set of philosophical claims. Rather, these late works display Nietzsche living through a series of different personalities or philosophical perspectives. Each perspective embodies a different way of seeing the world, deploys different values, highlights certain features while occluding others,and is motivated by a different dominant drive. What one perspective emphasizes can be left out by another; what one perspective presents as va