An unknown destiny
Subtitle: terror, psychotherapy, and modern initiation: readings in Nietzsche, Heidegger, Steiner
By: Michael Gruber.
Publisher: Lindisfarne Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Great Barrington, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 165
ISBN-13: 9781584200642
Subjects: Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, -- 1844-1900; Heidegger, Martin, -- 1889-1976; Steiner, Rudolf, -- 1861-1925; Terrorism; Terrorism -- Psychological aspects; Psychic trauma; Psychotherapy
Description: "Beginning with a consideration of Nietzsche’s inflammatory and critical insight that the modern world is framed by the death of God, Michael Gruber confronts contemporary disenchantment and its necessary offspring, the “universalization of terror.” By making truth relative, negating the value of beauty, and rendering questions about the good dubious if not obsolete, terror permeates all aspects of our psychosocial existence with the threat of dehumanization. In response to this terror, which is the fundamental mood of our time, Gruber advocates re-imagining our destiny as a path of initiation."--Back cover.
Table of contents: title: From ornithology to a love supreme : overcoming the forces of gravity, and the teaching of Amor Fati; title: Zarathustra's convalescence : cognitive expansions and inner wisdom; title: With Nietzsche on the road from revenge to redemption; title: Traumatic pain : psychotherapeutic conversation between mediumship and soul wisdom; title: Psychotherapy as a vocation : giving voice to soul; title: Intuitive and inceptual thinking : the meditative paths of Steiner and Heidegger; title: "While my conscience explodes".