Nietzsche's Therapeutic Teaching For Individuals and Culture [Paperback]

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, that beliefs, behaviours, ideals and patterns of striving are not things for which individuals or even cultures are responsible. Rather, they are symptoms of what an individual or culture is, which symptoms require diagnostic interpretation and evaluation. The book identifies three principal approaches in Nietzsche's philosophy: diagnostic, prognostic and therapeutic. Each essay takes up this essential insight into Nietzsche's therapeutic philosophy from a different perspective and collectively they reveal an array of insightful approaches to self-induced enhancement, for both individuals and cultures.

Note on the Contributors
Acknowledgements
1. IntroductionHorst Hutter and Eli Friedland
2. The Nietzsche Cure: New Kinds of 'Gymnastics of Willing'Horst Hutter
3. Vocation as Therapy: Nietzsche and the Conflict Between Profession and Calling in AcademiaMartine B?land
4. Nietzsche's Ethics of Reading: Education in a Postmodern WorldNathalie Lachance
5. Who Educates the Educators? Nietzsche's Philosophical Therapy in the Age of NihilismJos? Daniel Parra
6. Nietzsche's Cruel Offerings: Friendship, Solitude and the Bestowing Virtue in Thus Spoke ZarathustraWillow Verkerk
7. The Advantages and Disadvantages of Nietzsche's Philosophy for LifeBela Egyed
8. Nietzsche's Agonistic Rhetoric and its Theral3$