The body that remained on the ground
The Nietzsche reception in the Nordic countries
The body that remained on the ground is placed in the intended extension of Harald Beyer's comprehensive work Nietzsche and the North - a pioneering work , in relation to which the 14 contributions presented here must be considered as an update and further reflection. The intention is to create an up-to-date elucidation and discussion of the reception and processing of Nietzsche's philosophy in the Nordic countries, as well as to ask the question going forward, whether the processing of Nietzsche and his provocative ideas, including the controversial idea of the superman, has been taken to the bottom at all.
The book asks whether one can with the same right recognize the impossibility of a comprehensive confrontation and instead think that we probably never can or should finish taking consequences from Nietzsche. Hence the book's title: The body that remained on the ground.
CONTENTS
Introduction
by Erik Skyum-Nielsen
Nietzsche as educator
by Lars-Henrik Schmidt
Nietzsche as fin-de-siècle thinker
by Jørgen Hass
Georg Brandes's Nietzsche
From the lectures to the printed versions
by Per Dahl
Nietzsche and decadence in the Nordics
by Trond Berg Eriksen
Denmark's first welfare debate
With Friederich Nietzsche as the occasion
by Lasse Horne Kjældgaard
The decadent Axel Borg On the Nietzschean element in Strindberg's novel I havsbandet
by Tobias Dahlkvist
The evil strife of life Silenic wisdom in Henrik Pontoppidan's novel De Dødes Rige
by Rasmus Vangshardt
Zarathustra of the North
Knut Hamsun's path to the parnasset
by Jørgen Haugan
The Norwegian Dionysus
Knut Hamsun in Copenhagen
by Anders Ehlers Dam
Nietzsche's impact on Henrik Ibsen in Hedda Gabler, Bygmester Solness and John Gabriel Borkman
by Astrid Sæther
The inhuman and Homeric laughter of Karen Blixen
by Charlotte Engberg
The tragic passion of the mind
Bjørnvig's Nietzsche
by Jan Rosiek
Nietzsche among Faroese fiddlers
William Heinesen's magister Mortensen as a North Atlantic corrective to Nietzsche
by Bergur Rønne Moberg
Nietzsche's individualism
and Peter Seeberg's contribution to the Danish Nietzsche reception
by Anders Juhl Rasmussen