The Three Stigmata of Friedrich Nietzsche [electronic resource] : Political Physiology in the Age of Nihilism /
Mellamphy, Nandita Biswas.author.
Following Nietzsche's call for a philosopher-physician and his own use of the bodily language of health and illness as tools to diagnose the ailments of the body politic, this book offers a reconstruction of the concept of political physiology in Nietzsche's thought, bridging gaps between Anglo-American, German and French schools of interpretation.
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface: The Three Stigmata; Introduction: The Mnemotechnics of Nihilism and the Political Physiology of Eternal Recurrence; 1 The Displaced 'Origin' of Political Physiology; 2 The Economic Problem of Production: Nature, Culture, Life; 3 The Dynamics of Opposition and the Transformation of the Übermensch; 4 Self-Annihilation and the Metamorphosis of Nihilism; 5 The Pathology of Amor Fati: Eros and Eschaton; 6 Novum Organum: The Overhuman as the Overmanifold; Postface: The Transmigration of Homo Natura; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Following Nietzsche's call for a philosopher-physician and his own use of the bodily language of health and illness as tools to diagnose the ailments of the body politic, this book offers a reconstruction of the concept of political physiology in Nietzsche's thought, bridging gaps between Anglo-American, German and French schools of interpretation.
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900.
Political science
Social sciences-Philosophy.
Philosophy of mind.
Philosophy, modern.
Political Philosophy.
Social Philosophy.
Philosophy of Mind.
Modern Philosophy.