The overman in the marketplace : Nietzschean heroism in popular culture
"The Overman in the Marketplace explores the emergence and significance of "a Nietzschean heroic model" in twentieth-century popular culture, some notable examples of which are icons of pop culture such as James Bond, Tarzan, Hannibal Lector, or Ayn Rand's heroes. Taking on the nineteenth-century Romantic rebellion against Realism, the Nietzschean hero becomes a crusader against the perceived leveling-down of mass society. This book aims at integrating the analysis of Nietzschean heroism into a comprehensive social and ideological critique."--Jacket
Print Book, English, ©2007
Lexington Books, Lanham, MD, ©2007
ix, 325 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780739119853, 9780739119860, 0739119850, 0739119869
123968384
pt. I.A blueprint for the Nietzschean hero
Nietzsche, the popular and the 'grand economy'
How to tame a bulldog : the social mission of the Nietzschean hero
Popular Nietzscheanism : aesthetics for everyone and no one
pt. II. The Nietzschean hero on the ground
Realism, romanticism, Byronism : the genealogy of the Nietzschean hero
The Bourgeois renaissance of aristocratic heroism
The joy of the knife : Nietzschean glorification of crime