Nietzsche's tragic regime
Subtitle: culture, aesthetics, and political education
By: Thomas Heilke.
Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Dekalb
Language: eng
Number of pages: 215
Subjects: Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900.; Europe -- Civilization -- 19th century.
Description: This study explores Nietzsche's political education as a means of understanding his wider political thought. Incorporating biographical details of Nietzsche's own education, it outlines the course of political education that Nietzsche recommends as an antidote to the crisis in Western European culture.

Heilke begins by examining Nietzsche's formulation of this crisis, especially his conceptions of "Romantic Pessimism," "Socratism," and Christianity. For Nietzsche, only a properly ordered education could resolve the problem of how one can transform a society whose fundamental cultural and political premises one rejects. Through education Nietzsche sought to establish a new political and social system founded upon the principles of tragedy and grounded in the aesthetic tradition of German Romanticism.

Nietzsche's Tragic Regime focuses on Nietzsche's political philosophy until his resignation from his post as professor in 1876, with attention also to the later writings.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-210) and index.