Nietzsche and Modern Times

This book explores the character of modernity through a consideration of Bacon, Descartes, and Nietzsche. It argues that Bacon and Descartes, in their positive claims for science, played the fundamental role in the development of the modern world view; that they used the Platonic art of dissimulative writing as the means to achieve their ends by making their revolutionary aims appear compatible with Christianity; and that Nietzsche understood both their ends and their means and set out to ground an antimodern world view.Lampert, Laurence is the author of 'Nietzsche and Modern Times', published 1993 under ISBN 9780300056754 and ISBN 0300056753.