The Overman in the Marketplace
Nietzschean Heroism in Popular Culture
The Overman in the Marketplace explores the emergence and significance of a Nietzschean heroic model in twentieth-century popular culture, some notable examples of which are such pop culture icons as James Bond, Tarzan, Hannibal Lecter and Ayn Rand's heroes. Taking on the nineteenth-century romantic rebellion against realism, the Nietzschean hero becomes a crusader against the perceived leveling-down of mass society. The bourgeois, realistic hero is ousted in favor of a neo-aristocratic hero who roams beyond good and evil, no longer bound to any universalistic mission, in fact doing all he can to repel the rising tides of egalitarianism. This…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-7391-1985-3
- EAN: 9780739119853
- Produktnummer: 2999912
- Verlag: Lexington Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 336 S.
- Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.7 cm x D2.4 cm 670 g
- Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
- Gewicht: 670
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Ishay Landa is a Minerva Fellow at the Technische Universitaet in Braunschweig, Germany.
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