Friedrich Nietzsche and the Ancient Skeptical Tradition
FAIN: FA-53940-08
Jessica N. Berry
Georgia State University (Atlanta, GA 30303-3011)
I propose to bring together into a book my previous work on Friedrich Nietzsche's engagement with the Greek skeptics, expanding on published articles and papers presented over the last several years. This work fills a gap in the literature on Nietzsche by demonstrating how an understanding of ancient skepticism--the Pyrrhonian tradition in particular--promises to illuminate Nietzsche's own reflections on truth, knowledge, and ultimately, the nature and value of philosophic inquiry itself. Moreover, this work breaks new ground in the scholarship on one of the last century's most influential thinkers by presenting an interpretation of his thought that answers and connects together heretofore open questions about the coherence and lasting impact of his views.
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Review in 'Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews' (Beatrix Himmelmann) (Review)
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Publication: Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
Date: 7/31/2011
URL: http://ndpr.nd.edu/news/24777-nietzsche-and-the-ancient-skeptical-tradition/
Notice of Review in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (Media Coverage)
Author(s): Researcher in Philosophy at the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones CientÃficas y Técnicas (Argenti
Publication: Aporia: Devoted to Skepticism
Date: 8/1/2011
Abstract: A notice that the review of this book appeared in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.
URL: http://blogaporia.blogspot.com/2011/08/review-of-nietzsche-and-ancient.html
Review in 'The Journal of Nietzsche Studies' (Matthew Meyer) (Review)
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Publication: The Journal of Nietzsche Studies
Date: 4/1/2012
Abstract: Review of 'Nietzsche and the Ancient Skeptical Tradition'.
URL: http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/jns/reviews/jessica-berry-nietzsche-and-the-ancient-skeptical-tradition
Charlie Huenemann on Jessica Berry, Nietzsche and the Ancient Skeptical Tradition (Media Coverage)
Author(s): Charles Huenemann (Utah State University)
Publication: Huenemanniac
Date: 4/28/2011
Abstract: A critical note and discussion.
URL: http://huenemanniac.wordpress.com/2011/04/28/on-jessica-berry-nietzsche-and-the-ancient-skeptical-tradition/
Review in 'Philosophy in Review' (Bryan Finken) (Review)
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Publication: Philosophy in Review 31 (6):400-401 (2011)
Date: 1/1/2011
Abstract: Review of Nietzsche and the Ancient Skeptical Tradition.
URL: https://journals.uvic.ca/index.php/pir/article/viewFile/9342/2748
Review in 'Ethics' (Lawrence Hatab) (Review)
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Publication: Ethics 122.2 (2012): 398-402
Date: 1/1/2012
Abstract: Review of 'Nietzsche and the Ancient Skeptical Tradition'.
URL: http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/663577
'Nietzsche on Truth and Skepticism' (Episode 61) (Media Coverage)
Publication: 'The Partially Examined Life'
Date: 8/15/2012
Abstract: 'The Partially Examined Life' (PEL) is a podcast, available for free download via iTunes and at the PEL website. In this episode, the hosts and author discuss the views of Sextus Empiricus, the skeptical philosopher and physician in antiquity whose thought is the topic of 'Nietzsche and the Skeptical Tradition'. This episode has been downloaded over 130,000 times worldwide. (Unique downloads up to 10 February 2016 as tracked by Mark Linsenmayer, producer and co-host of PEL.)
URL: http://www.partiallyexaminedlife.com/2012/08/15/ep61-nietzsche/
Review in 'The International Journal for the Study of Skepticism' (R. Eichorn) (Review)
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Publication: International Journal for the Study of Skepticism 2 (2012): 79-82
Date: 1/1/2012
Abstract: Review of 'Nietzsche and the Ancient Skeptical Tradition'.
URL: http://www.worldcat.org/title/inietzsche-and-the-ancient-skeptical-traditioni-by-jessica-n-berry-oxford-oxford-university-press-2011-pp-xii-230-isbn-978-0-19-536842-0/oclc/4898051269&referer=brief_results
Review in 'Review of Metaphysics' (Justin Spinks) (Review)
Author(s): Justin Spinks
Publication: Review of Metaphysics 66.1 (2012): 134-36
Date: 9/1/2012
Abstract: Review of 'Nietzsche and the Ancient Skeptical Tradition' in a very good, general-interest journal in the field.
URL: http://www.worldcat.org/title/book-review-nietzsche-and-the-ancient-skeptical-tradition/oclc/5964268967&referer=brief_results
Review in 'The Journal of the History of Philosophy' (Rebecca Bamford) (Review)
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Publication: The Journal of the History of Philosophy 51.1 (2013): 138-40
Date: 1/1/2013
Abstract: Review of 'Nietzsche and the Ancient Skeptical Tradition'.
URL: http://www.worldcat.org/title/jessica-n-berry-nietzsche-and-the-ancient-skeptical-tradition/oclc/827246912&referer=brief_results
'A Pyrrhonian Nietzschean Stakeout' (Media Coverage)
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Publication: 3:AM Magazine
Date: 11/23/2012
Abstract: Interview of Jessica N. Berry by Richard Marshall of a widely-read, general-interest online magazine.
URL: http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/a-pyrrhonian-nietzschean-stakeout/
'Nietzschean Perspectivism Again, with a Skeptical Twist' (Media Coverage)
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Publication: 3 Quarks Daily
Date: 12/24/2012
Abstract: A discussion of 'Nietzsche and the Skeptical Tradition'.
URL: http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2012/12/nietzschean-perspectivism-again-with-a-skeptical-twist.html
'Pyrrhonian Skepticism According to Sextus Empiricus' (Episode 106) (Media Coverage)
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Publication: The Partially Examined Life
Date: 12/4/2014
Abstract: 'The Partially Examined Life' (PEL) is a podcast, available for free download via iTunes and at the PEL website. In this episode, the hosts and author discuss the views of Sextus Empiricus, the skeptical philosopher and physician in antiquity whose thought is the topic of 'Nietzsche and the Skeptical Tradition'. This episode has been downloaded over 65,000 times worldwide. (Unique downloads up to 10 February 2016 as tracked by Mark Linsenmayer, producer and co-host of PEL.)
URL: http://www.partiallyexaminedlife.com/2014/12/04/ep106-pyrrhonian-skepticism-sextus-empiricus/
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Nietzsche and the Ancient Skeptical Tradition (Book)Title: Nietzsche and the Ancient Skeptical Tradition
Author: Jessica N. Berry
Abstract: The impact of Nietzsche's engagement with the Greek skeptics has never before been systematically explored in a book-length work - an inattention that belies the interpretive weight scholars otherwise attribute to his early career as a professor of classical philology and to the fascination with Greek literature and culture that persisted throughout his productive academic life. Jessica N. Berry fills this gap in the literature on Nietzsche by demonstrating how an understanding of the Pyrrhonian skeptical tradition illuminates Nietzsche's own reflections on truth, knowledge, and ultimately, the nature and value of philosophic inquiry. This entirely new reading of Nietzsche's epistemological and ethical views promises to make clear and render coherent his provocative but often opaque remarks on the topics of truth and knowledge and to grant us further insight into his ethics-since the Greek skeptics, like Nietzsche, take up the position they do as a means of promoting well-being and psychological health. In addition, it allows us to recover a portrait of Nietzsche as a philologist and philosophical psychologist that has been too often obscured by commentaries on his thought
Year: 2011
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780195368420