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PHIL420 Nietzsche

Credit Points 6
Offering
Responsible Campus Teaching Period Mode of Study
Armidale Semester 2 On Campus
Armidale Semester 2 Off Campus
Online level Level B - Internet access required
Intensive School(s)
Start Finish Attendance Notes
15 September 2008 17 September 2008 Optional
Supervised Exam November
Pre-requisites candidature in a postgraduate award
Co-requisites None
Restrictions PHIL 220, 320
Notes None
Combined Units PHIL320 - 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. (trans. W. Kaufmann)
ISBN: 9780140441185
Nietzsche, F., Penguin 1966
Text For: Semester 2; On and Off Campus
The Birth of Tragedy and the Case of Wagner. (trans. W. Kaufmann)
ISBN: 9780394703695
Nietzsche, F., Random House 1967
Text For: Semester 2; On and Off Campus
On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo. (trans. W. Kaufmann)
ISBN: 9780679724629
Nietzsche, F., Vintage Books 1989
Text For: Semester 2; On and Off Campus
Recommended Material
Optional
None
Disclaimer Offer of some subjects is subject to viability. Information in these unit descriptions is subject to change prior to commencement of semester.
   

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