Graduation Semester and Year
2019
Language
English
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts in History
Department
History
First Advisor
Kenyon Zimmer
Abstract
Modern European Culture and the Making of Beyond Good and Evil offers a historical picture of nineteenth-century European culture by means of examining one of its chief artifacts, Friedrich Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil, in effect “seeing” European culture through Nietzsche’s “most dangerous book.” Beyond Good and Evil contained Nietzsche’s clearest attack on the foundations of what will be called “national imaginaries,” decisive historically for cultural changes, shooting questions about both the “nation” and those “clinging” to it. Likewise, the book also provided an analysis of the emergent “supranational” peoples of Europe that were in need of a transnational cultural community, Nietzsche having asked whether imagined national communities could be relieved by the fact that “Europe wants to become one.” This discussion suggests an approach to the question of what it would be for Europe to “become one” in Nietzsche’s sense, by way of the study of nineteenth-century European culture and one influential historical actor’s relationship with it.
Keywords
Nietzsche, History, European history, Cultural history, European culture, Social history, Intellectual history, Historical philosophy, Nietzsche studies
Disciplines
Arts and Humanities | History
License
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Recommended Citation
Webber, Jaryth, "Modern European Culture and the Making of Beyond Good and Evil" (2019). History Theses. 85.
https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/history_theses/85
Comments
Degree granted by The University of Texas at Arlington