Beschreibung:
Ishay Landa is a Minerva Fellow at the Technische Universitaet in Braunschweig, Germany.
This book explores the emergence and significance of 'a Nietzschean heroic model' in 20th-century popular culture, some notable examples of which are James Bond, Tarzan, and Hannibal Lecter.
Part 1 Part I Chapter 2 Nietzsche, the Popular and the 'Grand Economy' Chapter 3 How to Tame a Bulldog: The Social Mission of the Nietzschean Hero Chapter 4 Popular Nietzscheanism: Aesthetics for Everyone and No One Part 5 Part II Chapter 6 Realism, Romanticism, Byronism: The Genealogy of the Nietzschean Hero Chapter 7 The Bourgeois Renaissance of Aristocratic Heroism Chapter 8 'The Joy of the Knife': Nietzschean Glorification of Crime