Search for dissertations about: "Agnes Taubert"

Found 1 swedish dissertation containing the words Agnes Taubert.

2. 1. Nietzsche and the Philosophy of Pessimism : Schopenhauer, Hartmann, Leopardi

   Author : Tobias Dahlkvist; Thomas Brobjer; Mats Persson; Andreas Urs Sommer; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; History of science and ideas; Pessimism; Friedrich Nietzsche; Arthur Schopenhauer; Eduard von Hartmann; Giacomo Leopardi; Philipp Mainländer; Julius Bahnsen; Agnes Taubert; Eugen Dühring; Nihilism; Melancholy; Eternal Recurrence; Hamlet; Idé- och lärdomshistoria; History of Sciences and Ideas; Idé- och lärdomshistoria;

   Abstract : This dissertation is a study of the predominantly German pessimistic tradition in the philosophy of the late nineteenth century, and of Nietzsche’s complex relation to that tradition. The aim of the dissertation is firstly to analyse how pessimism came to be established as a philosophical concept by Schopenhauer and a later generation of pessimistic thinkers, and secondly to investigate how Nietzsche understood pessimism. READ MORE