Description: Nietzsche As Cultural Physician, Paperback by Ahern, Daniel R., ISBN 027103050X, ISBN-13 9780271030500, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US In this new interpretation of Nietzsche's thought, Daniel Ahern examines Nietzsche's understanding of physiology and argues that Nietzsche saw himself in the role of a ''physician'' of culture. Through what he calls Nietzsche's ''clinical standpoint,'' Ahern describes Nietzsche's views on the history of Western culture in terms of the ''physiological dynamics'' of exhaustion, decadence, sickness, and health. This physiology is a simultaneous interpretation of the will to power and constitutes both Nietzsche's ''diagnoses'' of the ''spiritual'' sickness of modern nihilism and its possible cure. To describe how ''spirit'' can be both a force of degeneration and vitality, Ahern studies Nietzsche's perception of the history and culture of both the ancient Greeks and Jews. In doing so, he provides a sound textual basis for confronting the potentially inflammatory aspects of Nietzsche's little discussed cultural criticism. This book marks the first serious exploration of Nietzsche's diagnosis and prognosis for modernity and of the centrality to Nietzsche's thought of his conception of himself as a physician of culture.
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Book Title: Nietzsche As Cultural Physician
Number of Pages: 224 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Nietzsche As Cultural Physician
Publisher: Pennsylvania STATE University Press
Subject: Individual Philosophers, Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Metaphysics, Criticism
Publication Year: 1995
Item Height: 0.6 in
Item Weight: 17.5 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 9 in
Subject Area: Philosophy
Author: Daniel R. Ahern
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
