Authenticity and learning
Subtitle: Nietzsche's educational philosophy
By: David E. Cooper
Series: Routledge library editions : Friedrich Nietzsche -- v. 2
Publisher: Routledge; Kegan Paul
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 161
ISBN-13: 9780203092668; 9780415561495; 9780415562218
Subjects: Philosophy & Social Aspects; Philosophy; Education; EDUCATION
Description: David E. Cooper elucidates Nietzsche's educational views in detail, in a form that will be of value to educationalists as well as philosophers. In this title, first published in 1983, he shows how these views relate to the rest of Nietzsche's work, and to modern European and Anglo-Saxon philosophical concerns. For Nietzsche, the purpose of true education was to produce creative individuals who take responsibility for their lives, beliefs and values. His ideal was human authenticity. David E. Cooper sets Nietzsche's critique against the background of nineteenth-century German cul
Notes: Originally published: London ; Boston : Routledge & K. Paul, 1983.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Authenticity; title: 'Breadwinners' and 'old maids'; title: Nature and technicism; title: Life and liberal education; title: Nietzsche's philosophy of truth; title: Genealogy, values, and the teaching of morality; title: The justification of society; title: 'The higher breeding of man.'