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Overman in the marketplace Nietzschean heroism in popular culture

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.
Print Book, English, 2007
Lexington Books, Lanham, MD, 2007
ix, 325 p. ill. 24 cm
9780739119853, 0739119850
1087698974
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