• Nietzsche and Irish modernism
1 1

Nietzsche and Irish modernism

£25.00
£25.00 £25.00
Sale Sold out
Nietzsche and Irish Modernism deftly traces the circulation of the German philosopher’s ideas in Irish culture during the early years of the twentieth century. In doing so, the book demonstrates ho...
Read More
  • Format:
  • 25 February 2025
View Product Details
Nietzsche and Irish Modernism demonstrates how the ideas of the controversial German philosopher played a crucial role in the emergence and evolution of a distinctly Irish brand of modernist culture. Making an essential new contribution to the history of modernism, the book traces the circulation of these ideas through the writings of George Bernard Shaw, W.B. Yeats, and James Joyce, as well as through minor works of literature, magazine articles, newspaper debates, public lectures, and private correspondence. These materials reveal a response to Nietzsche that created abiding tensions between Irish cultural production and reigning religious and nationalist orthodoxies, during an anxious period of Home Rule agitation, world war, revolution, civil war, and state building. With its wealth of detail, the book greatly enriches our understanding of modernist culture as a site of convergence between art and politics, indigenous concerns and foreign perspectives.
files/i.png Icon
Price: £25.00
Pages: 288
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Publication Date: 25 February 2025
ISBN: 9781526182630
Format: Paperback
BISACs:

LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Literary theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, PHILOSOPHY / Individual Philosophers, Philosophy
REVIEWS Icon

‘Compelling and fresh, Patrick Bixby’s cultural history shows how Irish modernists summoned Nietzsche to envision bold political change and invent revolutionary aesthetic forms. Whether it’s the surprising Shaw or the underappreciated George Eagerton, Tom Kettle in war archives or Joyce and Yeats anew, you’ll appreciate seeing what makes Irish modernism distinct.’
James McNaughton, The University of Alabama

'a penetrating investigation into literary modernism and specific Irish writers (particularly, George Bernard Shaw, W. B. Yeats, and James Joyce), as well as an expansive cultural history of Friedrich Nietzsche’s philosophy. Bixby does a brilliant job of weaving these two strands into a single coherent, and very persuasive, thesis...'
Philosophy and Literature

'Throughout Nietzsche and Irish Modernism, fresh underread resources are mobilized in reframed historical moments to illuminate the subject.'
Twentieth-Century Literature

Introduction: Nietzsche, Ireland, Modernism
1 Shaw: ‘An English (or Irish) Nietzsche’
2 Yeats: ‘Proud hard gift-giving joyousness’
3 Joyce: ‘James Overman’
4 War: ‘The duel between Nietzsche and civilisation’
5 Postwar: ‘The Forerunner’

Index