Nietzsche As Cultural Physician

Name: Nietzsche As Cultural Physician
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ISBN: 9780271030500

ISBN-10: 027103050X

ISBN-13: 9780271030500

Edition: 1995

Authors: Daniel R. Ahern

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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…

Book details

List price: $40.95
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Publication date: 9/15/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 1.078
Language: English

Daniel R. Ahern is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton. He is the author of Nietzsche as Cultural Physician (Penn State, 1995).