| Nietzsche's Therapy: Self-Cultivation in the Middle Works Contributor(s): Ure, Michael (Author) |
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ISBN: 0739119966 ISBN-13: 9780739119969 Publisher: Lexington Books OUR PRICE: $131.67 Product Type: Hardcover Published: May 2008 Annotation: Nietzsche's Therapy explores the ethics of self-cultivation that Nietzsche forged in his middle works. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | History & Surveys - Modern - Philosophy | Ethics & Moral Philosophy - Philosophy | Criticism |
| Dewey: 193 |
| LCCN: 2008005842 |
| Physical Information: 1.04" H x 6.39" W x 8.98" (1.20 lbs) 284 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Nietzsche's Therapy examines Nietzsche's middle works in order to challenge those views that dismiss his conception of self-cultivation as a symptom of unadulterated narcissism. It aims to develop a far more balanced and refined conception of his idea of self-cultivation by re-examining the much neglected free-spirit trilogy of Human, All Too Human, Daybreak, and The Gay Science. Contra Nietzsche's critics, it argues that the kind of self-cultivation that draws on the model of Hellenistic and Roman Stoic philosophical therapeia. It suggests that he renovates this therapeutic tradition through his own critical, psychoanalytic insights into narcissism and its transformations. It reconstructs Nietzsche's ethics of self-cultivation in terms of his psychological analysis of the pathological symptoms of narcissism and its healthy or positive transformations. In charting Nietzsche's course from pathological narcissism to mature individualism, Nietzsche's Therapy unpacks the philosophical and psychological basis of his critique of Rousseau and Schopenhauer's ethics of piti /Mitleid, his use and analysis of comedy and humor in his critical, deflationary treatment of the malady of omnipotence, and his exploration of the idea of friendship as a positive counterpoint to damaged forms of intersubjectivity. |
