Shaping the future
Subtitle: Nietzsche's new regime of the soul and its ascetic practices
By: Horst Hutter.
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Lanham, MD
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
Subjects: Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900.
Description: Maps out the ascetic practices of a Neitzschean way of life. This book argues that Nietzsche's doctrines are attempts and temptations that aim to provoke his readers into changing themselves by putting philosophy into practice in their lives.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: a summary of arguments; title: Philosophy as therapy and the therapy of philosophy; title: Einsamkeitslehre, the practices of solitude; title: The dialectics of solitude and friendship; title: Writing the future, reading the self; title: Nutrition and the casuistry of selfishness; title: Dance and the return of dionysus; title: Epilogues: actio in distans.