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This collection of essays examines the life and thought of Agnes
Heller, who rose to international acclaim as a Marxist dissident in
Eastern Europe, then went on to develop one of the most
comprehensive oeuvres in contemporary philosophy, putting forward a
distinctive ethical theory and analyses of a vast range of topics
covering most every philosophical area. Here, philosophers,
sociologists, journalists, and political scientists contextualize,
compare and assess different elements of Heller's work; the
collection as a whole highlights relevant shifts within that work
as well as its intrinsic consistency. Essays in the collection
address the relationship between philosophy, political practice and
everyday life, Heller's theory of modernity and her ethical theory,
her recent scholarship on comedy and the Biblical book of Genesis,
her theories of radical needs and radical politics, her aesthetic
theory, and questions about her relationship to feminist theory.
The collection includes Heller's reflections on the collected
essays, as well as an early essay on her mentor LukOcs that exposes
her own steadfast engagement with certain practical and
philosophical issues throughout her life's work.
Shaping the Future maps out the ascetic practices of a Neitzschean
way of life. Hutter structures his argument around the belief that
Nietzsche, despite his ostensive enmity to Platonism and Socratism,
understood himself to be a Socratic and someone called upon by fate
to renew the Platonic task of being a philosophical legislator of
modern souls, culture, and political society. Hutter also considers
the paths of reasoning opened up by Pierre Hadot in his studies of
ancient philosophers as teachers of life and not just as providers
of "true" opinions and doctrines about the world.Shaping the Future
applies the reasonings of Hadot to the work of Nietzsche, arguing
that Nietzsche himself, throughout his philosophical career,
conceived of doctrines as never identical to philosophy itself, but
instead as a means of self-creation that had to be related to
working on oneself. Hutter makes a great contribution to the study
of Nietzsche and the growing movement that sees philosophy as a
practical activity and way of life.
This collection of essays examines the life and thought of Agnes
Heller, who rose to international acclaim as a Marxist dissident in
Eastern Europe, then went on to develop one of the most
comprehensive oeuvres in contemporary philosophy, putting forward a
distinctive ethical theory and analyses of a vast range of topics
covering most every philosophical area. Here, philosophers,
sociologists, journalists, and political scientists contextualize,
compare and assess different elements of Heller's work; the
collection as a whole highlights relevant shifts within that work
as well as its intrinsic consistency. Essays in the collection
address the relationship between philosophy, political practice and
everyday life, Heller's theory of modernity and her ethical theory,
her recent scholarship on comedy and the Biblical book of Genesis,
her theories of radical needs and radical politics, her aesthetic
theory, and questions about her relationship to feminist theory.
The collection includes Heller's reflections on the collected
essays, as well as an early essay on her mentor Lukacs that exposes
her own steadfast engagement with certain practical and
philosophical issues throughout her life's work."
Shaping the Future maps out the ascetic practices of a Neitzschean
way of life. Hutter structures his argument around the belief that
Nietzsche, despite his ostensive enmity to Platonism and Socratism,
understood himself to be a Socratic and someone called upon by fate
to renew the Platonic task of being a philosophical legislator of
modern souls, culture, and political society. Hutter also considers
the paths of reasoning opened up by Pierre Hadot in his studies of
ancient philosophers as teachers of life and not just as providers
of 'true' opinions and doctrines about the world.Shaping the Future
applies the reasonings of Hadot to the work of Nietzsche, arguing
that Nietzsche himself, throughout his philosophical career,
conceived of doctrines as never identical to philosophy itself, but
instead as a means of self-creation that had to be related to
working on oneself. Hutter makes a great contribution to the study
of Nietzsche and the growing movement that sees philosophy as a
practical activity and way of life.
The theme of the philosopher as therapist dominates Nietzsche's
entire opus, from his earliest writings to the Zarathustra period
and beyond. Nietzsche wishes to hasten the coming and future
sanctification of a new type of synthetic human being, and his
entire teaching is shaped by his own struggles against illness.Yet
few Nietzsche scholars have paid this crucial therapeutic element
of his thought sufficient attention. This collection of essays by
leading scholars in the field is composed around the Nietzschean
insight, which has its roots in the Hippocratic tradition of
ancient medicine, that beliefs, behaviours, ideals and patterns of
striving are not things for which individuals or even cultures are
responsible. Rather, they are symptoms of what an individual or
culture is, which symptoms require diagnostic interpretation and
evaluation. The book identifies three principal approaches in
Nietzsche's philosophy: diagnostic, prognostic and therapeutic.
Each essay takes up this essential insight into Nietzsche's
therapeutic philosophy from a different perspective and
collectively they reveal an array of insightful approaches to
self-induced enhancement, for both individuals and cultures.
The theme of the philosopher as therapist dominates Nietzsche's
entire opus, from his earliest writings to the Zarathustra period
and beyond. Nietzsche wishes to hasten the coming and future
sanctification of a new type of synthetic human being, and his
entire teaching is shaped by his own struggles against illness.Yet
few Nietzsche scholars have paid this crucial therapeutic element
of his thought sufficient attention. This collection of essays by
leading scholars in the field is composed around the Nietzschean
insight, which has its roots in the Hippocratic tradition of
ancient medicine, that beliefs, behaviours, ideals and patterns of
striving are not things for which individuals or even cultures are
responsible. Rather, they are symptoms of what an individual or
culture is, which symptoms require diagnostic interpretation and
evaluation. The book identifies three principal approaches in
Nietzsche's philosophy: diagnostic, prognostic and therapeutic.
Each essay takes up this essential insight into Nietzsche's
therapeutic philosophy from a different perspective and
collectively they reveal an array of insightful approaches to
self-induced enhancement, for both individuals and cultures.
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