PHIL 300 Syllabus (Nietzsche)

Tom Trelogan

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PHIL 300 Syllabus (Nietzsche)

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• Philosophie et théologie

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Topics in Philosophy: Nietzsche

Spring, 2005

Instructor: Tom Trelogan

Office: Smith House (1007 20th St.)

Office Hours: 11:15-12:05 MWF

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Course Objectives

This course is designed to serve as an introduction, in considerable depth, to the thought of

Friedrich Nietzsche. We’ll begin with a brief look at the philosophical setting of his thought

with an eye, especially, to understanding the impact on philosophy in the nineteenth century in

Germany of the thought of Immanuel Kant and Arthur Schopenhauer, proceed to a reading of

Nietzsche’s self-assessment,

Ecce Homo,

accompanied by a look at a contemporary account of

the history of Nietzsche interpretation, and then work our way through a number of Niet-

zsche’s works—

The Birth of Tragedy, The Gay Science, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, The Ge-

nealogy of Morals,

The Twilight of the Idols,

and

The Antichrist

—aided by a look at pieces in

David B. Allison’s excellent anthology of relatively recent scholarship on Nietzsche and by a

reading of his new book on Nietzsche,

Reading the New Nietzsche.

Texts

Allison, David B, ed.

The New Nietzsche: Contemporary Styles of Interpretation.

Cam-

bridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1985. (ISBN: 0262510340)

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Reading the New Nietzsche.

New York: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2001.

(ISBN: 0847689808)

Nietzsche, Friedrich.

The Birth of Tragedy

and

The Case of Wagner.

Walter Kaufmann,

trans. New York: Vintage Books USA, 1967. (ISBN: 0394703693)

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The Gay Science.

Walter Kaufmann, trans. New York: Vintage Books USA,

1974. (ISBN: 0394719859)

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On the Genealogy of Morals/Ecce Homo.

Walter Kaufmann, ed.; Kaufmann and

R.J. Hollingdale, trans. New York: Vintage Books USA, 1989. (ISBN: 0679724621)

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The Portable Nietzsche.

(Contains, among other things, translations of

Thus

Spoke Zarathustra, the Twilight of the Idols,

and

The Antichrist.

) Walter Kaufmann,

ed. and trans. New York: Penguin Books, 1977. (ISBN: 0140150625)

Course Requirements and Grades

E-Mail Account:

You’ll need to have an e-mail account. If you don’t have one already, you’ll need to arrange to

get one by Wednesday. You can get a UNC account in any of the computer labs on campus or at

Bear Logic, the computer store in the University Center. Accounts with other national or local ISPs

(AOL, CompuServ, Juno, Hotmail, CTOS, etc.) are perfectly acceptable as well.

Reading Assignments:

You’ll find a general indication of the reading assignments in the course outline at the end of

the syllabus. More specific assignments will be announced in class and posted on the class Web

site

(at http://www.unco.edu/philosophy/current/300-004.html) as well. Make sure you have these

done on time

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Expect to spend time on the readings. They’re difficult, challenging, serious texts

that require prolonged study and reflection, not presentations of predigested material written for

people in a hurry.

Quizzes:

Brief, unannounced quizzes will be given on the assigned readings from time to time. Under

no circumstances may missed quizzes be made up.

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And, of course, by appointment.