The Paradox of Philosophical Education: Nietzsche’s New Nobility and the Eternal Recurrence in Beyond Good and Evil

Nietzsche’s New Nobility is an interpretation of the philosopher’s mature thought by Harvey Lomax, eminent Nietzsche scholar. Lomax reads religion and philosophy as counterpoint to poetry; as few others have done, he sets aside the anti-rationalist, nihilist Nietzsche and reveals a as poet-philosopher in–and in conflict with–the Platonic and Socratic traditions. With thoughtful discussion and a passage-by-passage explication of chapters 1 and 2 of Beyond Good and Evil, Lomax becomes the first Nietzschean scholar to provide a coherent treatment of Nietzsche’s work on nobility.