Title: Nietzsche's tragic regime
First published: 1998
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.
Subjects: Civilization, Nietzsche, friedrich wilhelm, 1844-1900, Aesthetics, modern, 19th century, Culture, Philosophy, german, Political and social views, Aesthetics, Education
Places: Europe
People: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900)
Time periods: 19th century
LC classification: B3317 .H38 1998