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Wisdom in Individual, Political, and Cultural Transformations: Brecht, Nietzsche, and the Limits of Academic Philosophy
- Philosophy East and West
- University of Hawai'i Press
- Volume 71, Number 3, July 2021
- pp. 624-643
- 10.1353/pew.2021.0044
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Abstract:
This essay is about political and cultural transformations and their relation to wisdom in Brecht and Nietesche. By reading Chinese philosophy Brecht recognizes the costs of political fights for wisdom, whereas Nietesche does not in his cultural aspirations for the overman.