Friedrich Nietzsche and the Politics of the Soul
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Acknowledgment (creative arts and sciences)
Ambiguity
Ambivalence
Amor fati
Apollonian and Dionysian
Apotheosis
Arthur Schopenhauer
Atheism
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Beyond Good and Evil
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Concept
Conscience
Consciousness
Contradiction
Cowardice
Criticism
Deed
Disposition
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Eternal return
Existence
Experience
God is dead
Good and evil
Greatness
Humour
Idealism
Individual
Individualism
Individuation
Irony
Laughter
Metaphor
Morality
Nihilism
Of Education
Pathos
Perspectivism
Pessimism
Phenomenon
Philosopher
Philosophical skepticism
Philosophy
Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks
Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche
Piety
Pity
Polemic
Political philosophy
Potentiality and actuality
Reality
Reason
Religion
Self-love
Semiotics
Skepticism
Stimulant
Sublimation (psychology)
Suffering
Symptom
Teleology
The Birth of Tragedy
The Gay Science
The Philosopher
The Will to Power (manuscript)
Theory
Thought
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Transvaluation of values
Understanding
Will to power
Writing
Product details
- ISBN 9780691020617
- Weight: 312g
- Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 23 Aug 1990
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Reading Nietzsche's works as the "political biography of his soul," Leslie Thiele presents an original and accessible essay on the great thinker's attempt to lead a heroic life as a philosopher, artist, saint, educator, and solitary. He takes as his point of departure Nietzsche's conception of the soul as a multiplicity of conflicting drives and personae, and focuses on the task Nietzsche allotted himself "to make a cosmos out of his chaotic inheritance." This struggle to "become what you are" by way of a spiritual politics is demonstrated to be Nietzsche's foremost concern, which fused his philosophy with his life. The book offers a conversation with Nietzsche rather than a consideration of the secondary literature, yet it takes to task many prevalent approaches to his work, and contests especially the way we often restrict our encounter with him to conceptual analysis. All deconstructionist attempts to portray him as solely concerned with the destruction of the subject and the dispersion of the self, rather than its unification, are called into question.
Often portrayed as the champion of nihilism, Nietzsche here emerges as a thinker who saw his primary task as the overcoming of nihilism through the heroic struggle of individuation.
