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Project

Nietzsche’s European man as a Renaissanceman: A conceptual, rhetorical and cultural historical analysis of the Renaissance as Nietzsche’s paradigm for a future Europe.
Code
01D33214
Duration
01 January 2015 → 31 December 2018
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Research disciplines
  • Humanities and the arts
    • Language studies
    • Literary studies
Keywords
Nietzsche transcultural interaction Europe renaissance 19th Century Cultural history German literature Rhetoric Literary studies
 
Project description

This project focuses on the literary and cultural historical analysis of Nietzsche’s concept of the Renaissance. It discusses Nietzsche’s “Renaissancism” in the light of the 19C “myth of the Renaissance”, the ways in which Nietzsche adapts his concept of the Renaissance to his project of transcultural interaction and portrays it as a paradigm for a future, non-national European culture.