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Friedrich Nietzsche and the Politics of the Soul: A Study of Heroic Individualism
Leslie Paul Thiele
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Description for Friedrich Nietzsche and the Politics of the Soul: A Study of Heroic Individualism
Paperback. Presents an essay on the Nietzsche's attempt to lead a heroic life as a philosopher, artist, saint, educator, and solitary. This book offers a conversation with Nietzsche rather than a consideration of the secondary literature. Series: Studies in Moral, Political, and Legal Philosophy. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 140 x 216 x 18. Weight in Grams: 312.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Series
Studies in Moral, Political, and Legal Philosophy
Condition
New
Weight
312g
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691020617
SKU
V9780691020617
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Reviews for Friedrich Nietzsche and the Politics of the Soul: A Study of Heroic Individualism
Thiele offers an accessible and accurate portrait of Nietzsche's ideal of heroic individualism. [In Nietzsche,] Thiele retrieves a creator of values, of a model of the 'well-ordered soul,' a seductive and paradoxical existential thinker with a psychagogic aim.
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