Tweetable Nietzsche
His Essential Ideas Revealed and Explained
- Philosophy
- Publisher: Zondervan Academic (Zondervan)
- Published: 2016
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Publisher's Description
Friedrich Nietzsche's thoughts in 140 characters or less. Tweetable Nietzsche introduces and analyzes the worldview of Friedrich Nietzsche. Nietzsche's tweets, 140 characters or less, provide readers a distilled essence of every major aspect of his worldview. Each tweet illustrates some aspect of his worldview contributing toward a full-orbed understanding of Nietzsche's thought. Friedrich Nietzsche radically confronted Western culture, morality, and social mores, until his death in 1900. Occupying a first-rank position as a thinker, his thought later inspired numerous movements that weave the tapestries of contemporary culture: existentialism, theology, nihilistic culture, Nazism, twentieth century film and art, atheism, ethical egoism, deconstruction, the hermeneutics of suspicion, and the postmodern age. Nietzsche's incalculable sway on our culture persists to this day. Even his acerbic criticism of Christianity has affected the religion. But many people remain unaware of the pervasive attitudes Nietzsche disseminated, attitudes they echo. His stark prophecy that "God is dead, and we killed him" thrives in this accelerating secular age where postmodernists lionized him as a prophetic voice of a new era.
Endorsements (4)
“Ivan Spencer has put together a brilliant and creative introduction to the profoundly influential thought of Friedrich Nietzsche. Placing Nietzsche’s sayings in the contemporary context of the Twittersphere, Spencer has not only made this nineteenth-century German philosopher’s work accessible to modern readers, he has provided thoughtful, reflective, and significantly helpful interpretation as well. Spencer’s work is commendable on many levels, but the truly important contribution of this book can be found in Spencer’s insightful analysis of the worldview implications of Nietzsche’s thought. I highly recommend this fine work.”
“thought that one could wish for. Anyone who reads this book will be informed, instructed, and entertained.”
“Ivan Spencer’s Tweetable Nietzsche is absolutely fantastic! Nietzsche has been, and continues to be, one of the most important thinkers in the history of Western thought. Spencer does a masterful job of representing the major features of his thought and capturing his aphoristic style. For any student of philosophy or the history of ideas, this is an absolute must-read. I am delighted to see this great contribution to Nietzschean literature!”
“Why Nietzsche Was Right” in his criticisms of the church and so forth. Ultimately, I said he was “Wrong.” This book by Ivan Spencer is also “Right” and certainly not wrong. By “Right” I mean really, really good. By “Wrong” I mean Nietzsche had a fallacious worldview. We need more books like this one, with its worldview orientation, specifically toward Nietzsche. And thank God for @TwilghtOfIdols and several other hashtags. If you read this work, you too can tweet Nietzsche in under 140 characters (including spaces) and perhaps develop a biblical worldview—one unlike Nietzsche’s own. After all, he got things Wrong!”
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