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1 online resource (x, 250 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Bloomsbury studies in continental philosophy
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Bloomsbury studies in continental philosophy.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Note on the Contributors; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 Introduction; Notes; Chapter 2 The Nietzsche Cure: New Kinds of "Gymnastics of Willing"1; Bibliographical note; Notes; Chapter 3 Vocation as Therapy: Nietzsche and the Conflict between Profession and Calling in Academia; Nietzsche in academia: Philology as a profession; Nietzsche's classical philology; Towards a therapy: Three attempts at reconciling profession and vocation; The structural conflict between profession and vocation in philosophy: Nietzsche and the definition of "profession." |
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Nietzsche's definition of philosophical life: SourcesConclusion; Notes; Abbreviations to Nietzsche's texts; Chapter 4 Nietzsche's Ethics of Reading: Education in a Postmodern World; Notes and references; Works cited; Chapter 5 "Who Educates the Educators?" Nietzsche's Philosophical Therapy in the Age of Nihilism; Introduction; Beyond Platonism; Askesis: Toward a morality for free spirits; Eternal recurrence: "But thus I willed it!"; What is noble?; Refounding the Platonic academy: Prelude to a philosophy of the future; Notes and references; Translations used. |
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Chapter 6 Nietzsche's Cruel Offerings: Friendship, Solitude, and the Bestowing Virtue in Thus Spoke ZarathustraNotes and references; Selected bibliography; Chapter 7 The Advantages and Disadvantages of Nietzsche's Philosophy for Life; Notes; Chapter 8 Nietzsche's Agonistic Rhetoric and its Therapeutic Affects; Nietzsche's agonistics: An introduction; Agonistic power; Agonistic Askesis and its therapeutic aspects; Agonistic praxis and attacks; Agonistic rhetorical tactics; Epilogue; Notes; Chapter 9 True to the Earth: Nietzsche's Epicurean Care of Self and World1; Nietzsche and Epicurus. |
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Nietzsche on Epicurus in the middle periodCare of self; An Epicurean attachment to life; An ecological Nietzsche?; Conclusion; Notes; Editions of Nietzsche used; Chapter 10 Nietzsche's "View from Above"1; Nietzsche's Dilemma: Positivism or Classicism?; Human, All Too Human: Free Spirit as Stoic of the Intellect; Daybreak: Free Spirit as Olympian or Sage; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 11 Zarathustra's Stillness: Dreaming and the Art of Incubation; Notes; Chapter 12 Nietzsche's Zarathustra, Nietzsche's Empedocles: The Time of Kings; Politics and Nietzsche's sketches for the Death of Empedocles. |
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The time of kingsGoing to ground: Nietzsche's Übermensch and Lucian's 'ypfr nqrwpr{; Notes and references; Literature; Chapter 13 Nietzsche's Care for Stone: The Dead, Dance, and Flying 1; Youth, death, and the stone of fate; The image of stone in self-fashioning; Rock and fate in Zarathustra; Stone in eternal return; Notes; Chapter 14 Nietzsche on Consciousness and Language1; Notes and references; Editions used; Chapter 15 Nietzsche's Experimental Ontology: Political Physiology in the Age of Nihilism; The three stigmata of Friedrich Nietzsche. |
| Summary |
The theme of the philosopher as therapist dominates Nietzsche's entire opus, from his earliest writings to the Zarathustra period and beyond. Nietzsche wishes to hasten the coming and future sanctification of a new type of synthetic human being, and his entire teaching is shaped by his own struggles against illness. Yet few Nietzsche scholars have paid this crucial therapeutic element of his thought sufficient attention. This collection of essays by leading scholars in the field is composed around the Nietzschean insight, which has its roots in the Hippocratic tradition of ancient medicine, th. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900.
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Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900. |
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern. |
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Electronic books.
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Hutter, Horst, 1938-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Hutter, Horst. Nietzsche's Therapeutic Teaching : For Individuals and Culture. London : Bloomsbury Publishing, ©2013 9781441125330 |
| ISBN |
9781441115409 (electronic book) |
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1441115404 (electronic book) |
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9781472548115 |
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1472548116 |
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9781441192264 (electronic book) |
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1441192263 (electronic book) |
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1441125337 |
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9781441125330 |
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9781441125330 |
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