The Philosophy Department is happy to announce that they are offering "Nietzsche and the Greeks", taught by Dr. Richard Perkins in the Fall 2008 semester. The class, PHI395,  is scheduled Tuesday and Thursday from 10:00am-11:30am. The pre-requisites are PHI101 and one other PHI class, or permission from the instructor.

Here is the class description:

This will be a course examining Nietzsche's philological and philosophical work involving Greek thought and culture and the ways he puts his insights to use in developing his own ideas. It will concentrate on addressing four related themes: (1) his views on ancient Greek culture and classical scholarship, (2) his reactions to pre-Platonic and Platonic philosophy (3) his discoveries regarding Attic tragedy, including its origin in Apollonian and Dionysian art impulses and its cancellation in Socratic rationalism, and finally, (4) his efforts in connection with his transvaluation project to call the impulse to knowledge into question and the role mythic paradigms (centering on Oedipus and Dionysus) play in giving structure to these endeavors. Its objective is to gain insights into Nietzsche's philosophy based on the way he views Greek Antiquity and, conversely, to gain insights into Greek antiquity based on his analyses and appropriations.