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. Th…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-7391-1986-0
- EAN: 9780739119860
- Produktnummer: 4698603
- Verlag: Lexington Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 336 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.9 cm 517 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 517
Über den Autor
Ishay Landa is a Minerva Fellow at the Technische Universitaet in Braunschweig, Germany.
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