This is a review of Yunus Tuncel, Nietzsche on Human Emotions.

In considering Hannah Arendt’s philosophical debt to Nietzsche, commentators have often drawn attention to the figure of the promise and to its central significance in the work of both thinkers. “The real problem regarding man,” as Nietzsche famously wrote in the programmatic opening remarks to the second essay from On the Genealogy of Morals, is how “to breed an animal with the right to make p...

I would like to centre the Brentano puzzle on the problem of Brentano's invisibility. Those asked to list the principal philosophers of the nineteenth century usually reply with names like those of Nietzsche, Mach, Dilthey, Mill, Frege, Kirkegaard. Perhaps Herbart, Comte, Simmel and Marx. Sometimes Bradley, Bolzano or Lotze are remembered. Very rarely, the name of Brentano is mentioned. Given t...