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Nietzshe's Napoleon: a Renaissance Man

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dc.contributor.authorRegent, Nikola
dc.date.accessioned2015-12-10T22:24:48Z
dc.date.available2015-12-10T22:24:48Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.date.updated2015-12-09T09:18:46Z
dc.description.abstractThe article examines the formation of Nietzsche's view of Napoleon as a Renaissance man, and its importance for Nietzsche's thought. Stendhal, with his image of Napoleon, exercised a crucial influence on Nietzsche, who was, thanks to Burckhardt, already full of admiration for the Renaissance. Special attention is given to Stendhal's Vie de Napoléon, which provided Nietzsche with a key to Napoleon as the continuator of the Renaissance and the man who again revived antiquity, a hero of Plutarchian proportions. Taine's influence is also analysed, for he provided the final stimulus for Nietzsche's concluding conception of Napoleon as a Renaissance man, as well as helping Nietzsche to realize the closeness between the Übermensch and Napoleon. The significance of Napoleon for Nietzsche's conceptualization of historical greatness is emphasized, as well as the features of the Corsican hero that make him the embodiment of Nietzsche's emulative understanding of history: the mirror image of a model active man from the second Untimely Meditation.
dc.identifier.issn0143-781X
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/53230
dc.publisherImprint Academic
dc.sourceHistory of Political Thought
dc.titleNietzshe's Napoleon: a Renaissance Man
dc.typeJournal article
local.bibliographicCitation.issue2 Summer 2012
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage347
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage305
local.contributor.affiliationRegent, Nikola, College of Arts and Social Sciences, ANU
local.contributor.authoruidRegent, Nikola, u4971875
local.description.notesImported from ARIES
local.identifier.absfor160609 - Political Theory and Political Philosophy
local.identifier.absseo970122 - Expanding Knowledge in Philosophy and Religious Studies
local.identifier.ariespublicationu4756716xPUB268
local.identifier.citationvolumeXXXIII
local.identifier.scopusID2-s2.0-84862499830
local.identifier.thomsonID000300064800008
local.type.statusPublished Version

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