The Overman in the Marketplace Nietzschean

The 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 or Hannibal Lecter.

Ishay Landa is a Minerva Fellow at the Technische Universitat in Braunschweig, Germany.

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction: The Hero as Social Metaphor	p. 1
A Blueprint for the Nietzschean Hero
Nietzsche, the Popular and the 'Grand Economy'	p. 15
How to Tame a Bulldog: The Social Mission of the Nietzschean Hero	p. 47
Popular Nietzscheanism: Aesthetics for Everyone and No One	p. 79
The Nietzschean Hero on the Ground
Realism, Romanticism, Byronism: The Genealogy of the Nietzschean Hero	p. 125
The Bourgeois Renaissance of Aristocratic Heroism	p. 159
'The Joy of the Knife': Nietzschean Glorification of Crime	p. 213
Epilogue: A Hero of Our Time	p. 265
Endnotes	p. 269
Bibliography	p. 303
Index	p. 315
About the Author	p. 325
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The Overman in the Marketplace Nietzschean Heroism in Popular Culture

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