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PHIL320 Nietzsche

Credit Points 6
Offering
Responsible Campus Teaching Period Mode of Study
Armidale Semester 2 Off Campus
Armidale Semester 2 On Campus
Online level Level B - Internet access required
Intensive School(s)
Start Finish Attendance Notes
15 September 2008 17 September 2008 Optional
Supervised Exam There is a UNE Supervised Examination held at the end of the teaching period in which you are enrolled.
Pre-requisites 12 cp in Philosophy or 12 cp in English or German
Co-requisites None
Restrictions PHIL 220, 420
Notes None
Combined Units PHIL420 - Nietzsche
Coordinator(s) William Mcdonald (wmcdonal@une.edu.au)
Unit Description

The unit gives an overview of Nietcsche's work from "The Birth of Tragedy" to "Ecce Homo". It has the following themes: relations between philosophy and literature; truth and perspectivism; historiography; the revaluation of values; the body; and the will to power.

Prescribed Material
Mandatory

Text(s):

Note: Students are expected to purchase prescribed material

Thus Spoke Zarathustra
ISBN: 9780140441185
Nietzsche, F. (trans. W. Kaufmann), Penguin 1964
The Birth of Tragedy and the Case of Wagner
ISBN: 9780394703695
Nietzsche, F. (trans. W. Kaufmann), Random House 1988
On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo
ISBN: 9780679724629
Nietzsche, F. (trans. W. Kaufmann), Vintage Books 1990
Recommended Material
Optional
None
Disclaimer Unit information may be subject to change prior to commencement of the teaching period.
   

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